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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921.
SHIPPING
P. & O.-BRITISH INDIA
APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
[(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER SERVICES
STRAITO, JAVA, BURMĂ, CEYLON, INDIA, PERNIAN GULF, WEST LEDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INGLUDING NEW XEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AID KEL, EGYPT, EUROFK, ds.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNERS
VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCHE SCHEEPVAART - MAATSCHAPPIJ (United Nataerlands Navigation Ca)
HOLLAND-OOST AZIE · LIJN, (Holland-East Axis Line)
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
From: ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG GENOA LISBON, îîìa MANILA.
HE Steamship
THE
* ALDERAMIN,” baving arrived from the above Parte, Consignees of Cargo by her are notified that all goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra bazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Eowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wharves dali very may be obtained.
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A case of robbery u accompanied by the deat the victims of the att occurred in the early he morning, on the Paris M press, is more suggestive pontine melodrama or the a sensational cinema film i day life, even in these day te of the revolver, in Pa where, is far too frequent. and coolness with which t met have been planned able. The express which Gare de Lyon at five minut each evening had passed Ba was approaching Chagny, about one o'clock in the threesome accounts sa masked bandits entered the Carriage at the end of 'the cording to some of the they had boarded the train Levelling revolvers at the most of whom appear to English and Spanish, the carriage being guarded by one of the robbers.
Hands Up!" each appro
ngers Dijon. ellers, Je been heated to the
Slackness
Feeling slack? Need Non-
a change? sense! Get the Kruschen habit and
you'll feelancWIAA Remember? Malfa- teaspoonful in hot water-befo: break- fast every n raing!
Kruschen Satis
A. 5. Wacon Co.. ir S. 30th for Hong
TYPES OF FACES.
Goode not cleared by the 14th September, 1921, will be subject to rent All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examinal on the 18th September 1991, at 10 AM. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
Claims against the steamer must be after arrival of steamer, otherwise ther aroused and defenceless passengers Professor Sir Arthur Keith seems to
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS (South) presented in writing within ten dayı
9. S.
Tons
From Bongtong (about)
Destination
5,400 | 13th Sept | Singapore Colombo & Bombay. 18th Sept. 1 MARIELLJA, LONDOW & A’werp. 14th Oct MARSEILLES, 1 ONDON & A'werp. 6,600 28th Oct. MAMARILLA, Lospor & Awerp. 9,000 11th Nov. Marshmir, London & A'wari-
"DILWARA
"KHYBER"
9,00
"KBIVA"
9,000
"BARDINIA"
"EARMALA"
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR
"ARRATOON APCAR"
4,510 9th Sept.
xt 10 sim.
SAILINGS (South)
Calcutta, via Singapore Penang and Rangoon
BASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
Manila, Thursday Jsland, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
SHANGHAI
"EASTERN"
**ARATURA"
4,000 €,oco
22nd Sept. 17th Oct.
SAILINGS
ΤΟ
&
JAPAN
"TAKADA"
**KHIYATM
7,000 1 9,000
Ath Sept. 12th Sept. at Noon
Amoy, Shanghai and Kobe. S'hai, Moj Kobe & Thams.
*SARDINIA"
6.600
28th Sept.
Japan vis: Shanghai.
7
SPECIAL
STEAMER.
(The P.&... "EGYFT" is expected to leave Hongkong on or about the 16th January, 1922, taking passevere and cargo for MARSEILLES and LONDON calling at Bombay.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON AIT STEAMERS
1st Saloon Passengers may travel by B.1.6.N. Compaay's steamers between Fingapore and Calcutta Singapore and Madras in lieu of the section of ther P. & 0. Tickets Singapore to Colombo.
All Cabins ara atted with Electric Fane free of charge.
Steamers and Bailing dates are liable to be cancelled or altered without noties Farcela Hensuring not mere than 1 ft. ft. 11, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to miling
For Further Information, Pasage Farms, Freights, Handbonka, etc, apply to
-MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
22, Deanz Road Central, HONGKONG.
Agenta.
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SALLIKGE FROM BONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERAZION.
will not be recognised.
·
No Fire Insurane: will be effected by the undersigned in any case whatever.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA-CEINAJAPAN LIJN,
General Agents. Hongkong, September , 1931.
Rubbing their eyes, the suddenly
were ordered to empty their ppckets,
promptly
CHANGES NOTED IN LAST CENTURY OR TWO.
British types of faces are changing,
He has charge of the meat repre- sentative colection of human remains and specimens in the British Empire, perhaps in the whole world. So great bas it grown that a classification, just started, will take several years.
It is hoped that in time enough material will accumulate to provide a basis for the physical history of the inhabitants of the islands.
and proceeded to obey, with the suggest in his annual report on the exception of two officers, who resiste museum of the Royal College of Carabelli, a young man of 25, 2 One of these, was Lieutenant: Max Surgrons, of which he is curator. student at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, who was decorated with the Croix de Guerre in the war on his way to Marseilles, where he was going to spend his holidays with his family. Stopped in his attempt in P. & O. S. N. CO. pall the emergency cord, be leapt at the throa: of one of his assailants, who stabbed him in the wrist with a dagger. Undismayed, the brave young fellow was still full of fight, but a revolver shot in the chest soon put an end to the unequal comba: and Carabelli sank mortally wounded in the corridor. The other officer was wounded and robbed by the bandits, or two.
The date at which these changes who then calmly went through the pockets and belongings of the took place (writes a Daily Chronicle rest of the travellers, the night of representative) the professor does not He considers that their crime yielding them a rich harvest in indicate. money and valuables. They then put the finishing touch to their audacity by themselves pulling the alarms signal.
STEAMERS FOR
AUS- STRAITS, COLOMBO, TRALIA, BOMBAY, · EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS
& LONDON.
Through Bills of Lading issued for Batavia, Parsian Gulf, Continental, American and South African Porta.
**
TH HE Steamship "DILWARA, Captain Bas, carrying
His Hajesty's Maila, will be despatched from this Fort on
or about TUESDAY, 13th September, 1921, taking Passer gers and Cargo for the above Porte
Silk and Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and London (tader arrangement), will be transhipped a Rombay into the Mail Steamer proceding dirret to Marseilles and Londe.
Parcels will be received at this Ofe
antil 3 P.. the day before The contents and value of all package are required.
From the evidence accumulating under bis hands the Conservator (Sir Arthur Keith) has became convinced that definite changes, particularly in i the face and jaws, bave been taking place in a large proportion of the British people during the last century
exact nature and extent can be deler. mined only by a systematic study of ample material.
CHANGES IN TES PALATE.
The change believed to be taking place in the British type of face is due to an alteration in the palate, and there are differences noticeable in the formation of the upper jaw. Whether this means that we are be coming more aesthetic-looking or otherwise is an interesting problem which future research will show
All this time the occupants of the other carriages bad not heard a sound, and when the train began to slow down none but the unfortunate travellers who had been robbed sus pected the reason. The robbers waited until the train had almost mailing.stopped and then, white one of them continued to level his revolver
During the year reports have been at the passenger until the last moment.
they severally jumped made on remains found in Hereford, a skull from a Saxon grave found at on to the permanent way.
The time of their departure must Eastbourne, some late neolithic or have been as cleverly conceived as bronze age burials near Swindon, the rest of the enterprise, for this and some remains found in a cave point, near Chagny, a motorcar was in the Mendips. awaiting the bandits. Before his death at the hospital at Chagny Lieutenant Carabelli was able to give details of the affair and a description of the robbers to the police.
For further particulars apply to---
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE
& CO.,
Hongkong, September 2, 1921.
Agents.
MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA, LTD.
(Mitambiani Trading Co. Ltd.) COAL GENERAL IMPORTE and
EXPORTS.
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TAKASHIMA, OOHL MUTABE KISHIDARE, YOSHINOTAEL HOJO, NAMAZUTA BAYO. BRIN YEW, HANADA BIBAI KAMIYA- HADA and OYUEAEL
AOKID VA BAKIT CỦA
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Branches and
Representatives :-
SEATTLE & VICTORIA OR VANCOUVER via Manila, Naamki, Baraten, Wakamaten, Majt,
Keelung, Shanghai & Japan ports.
Cargo to (terlaud I oints U. S, so pumpection with Great Northern, Northern
kad
9th Sept. at 11am. 4th Oct 11 am. 29th Oct-, at 11 am. Malacca. Penang
Pacific, and Chicase, Milwaukee & St. Paul Failways.
...Friday, KATORI, MARU (omit. Keelung)... SUWA MABU (Nagasaki duect). Baturday, LONDON & ANTWERP via Singapore,
Colombo, Suez, Port Bid & Marseilles.
...Friday.
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...Friday, INABA MARU HAMBURG, LONDON & ROTTERDAM.
MITO MARU
TIT
17
Kate, Kobe, Osaka, Tafruga. Nago Yokohama, Tokyo Hakodate, Mararan Otan. Vladivostock, Faking. Timmtain, Dairen. Tsingtao, Tainanta Hankow, Shanghai, Hongkong. Canton, Manila, Starapore, Somalaya, London, Paris New York and seattle.
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LINBON KARU
Da
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...Monday, 3rd October.
BYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Zamboange, Thursday
Island, Townsville & Brisbane.
TANGO MABI...
NIKKU MARŲ.....
THY
...Tuesday, 29th Sept, at li a.m. ...Toneday, 18th Oct., at 11 a.m.
NEW YORK & CUBAN FORT via PANAMA.
DAKAR MAHU...
DURBAN HARU
**
...Today, 30th September. ...Thursday, 20th Oct.
SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Cape.
KANAGAWA MABU
KAWACHI MARU
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...Monday, 19th September, ...Middle of November.
BOMBAY & COLOMBO via Singapore and Penang.
TAMBA MARU
TATSUNO MARU
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HIGH-CLASS PRINTING
AND
BOOK BINDING
DONE AT
THE CHINA MAIL: OFFICE
AUCTION BRIDGE.
DEMANDS FOR CHANGES IN THE RULES.
One of the queerest cargoes ever sent for examination consisted of several boxes of remains from the Government geologist at Trinidad.
SHIPPING
STRUTHERS & DIXON, Inc.
GREEN STAR LINE.
Opsenting Fur Baatsen werelow for accocuk of the UNITED STATES EITTING SOARD
To SINGAPORE & JAVA.
** West Qalara,"
8th September.
TO VANCOUVER AND SEATTLE (Vis SHANGHAI & JAPAN.) *West Canon. “
S3rd September. To LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCIS00 (Via SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU.)
18th September. mì Want Hunhan *Also, cargo socepted for Transhipment at San Francisco and/or Seattle to weekly asžlings for NEW ORLEANS, SAVANNAH, NORFOLK, BALTIMORE,
www
PHILADELPHIA,
NEW YORK, BOSTON.
Through Es of Lading luned to all Undi è Canadian Oredand Corsman Putras, HONGKONG OFFICE=1st Boer Powell's Building, 13, Das Foeux Ed., Tal. 3008.
T.
K. K.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO,
VIA SHANGHAI, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN & HONOLULU, **TER PATHWAY OF THE SUN.”
STEAMERL TENYO MARU
*KOREA MARU
*SHINTO HARU. +PERSTA MĀRU ........... TAITO MARU ................ FIBERIA MARU
TOK
20,000
59,000 14-941
000
$9,000
$0,000
Calling at Keelung.
LEAVEN HONGKONG,
...Bept 9th
Sept 19th.
Oct. trd.
...Oct. 16th at 10.30.
Oct 20th.
Nov. 15th.
+Calling at Dairen and omitting call at Shanchai. SOUTH AMERICAN LINE. HONGKONG TO VALPARAISO,
VIA JAPAN, HONOLULU, HILO, SAN FRANCISCO, SAN PEDRO SALINA CRUZ BALBOA, CALLAO, MOLLENDO, ARICA & IQUIQUE, THE BLANE-ANDRÆN ROUTE TO BULTOR AYRES.
STLANDES
GINYO MARU... ANYO MARU...
LUNA
LEAVE HONGKONG,
16,500-...-Sept.
6th:
$5th.
18,700 opt
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Agents at Canton: Messis: T. E. GRIFFITH, LID.
HOUSEHOLD
COAL
We are prepared to accept orders for HOUSEHOLD COAL re-screened in Hongkong at the following prices :- Delivered to Peak District (above Bowen Road)...$22.00 per ton.
Bowen Road and Lower Levels
t1
and Kowloon...$91.00 per top. TERMS: CASH WITH ORDER.
(CHEQUES PAYABLE TO "KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION")
KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
AGENTE
HEAD OFFICE-TIENTIA.
MEDICAL PISTOL.
A
DODWELL CO. LTD..
SHOOTING RAYS AT CANCER.
MUNGKANG
ENGAGED 20 YEARS.
ROMANCE OF A PASTOR'S DAUGHTER.
Becoming attached 20 years ago
One box contaîned an entire burial still embedded in the earth matrix an ancient aball, mound. From the pottery accompanying the remains it was inferred that the people re- presented belong to a period before
The so-called new cure for cancer to the brother of her father's gar the discovery of America by was much discussed privately and a dener, Miss Ethel Dowson, second Columbus.
little discussed in a public lecture at daughter-of-the Rev. HE Dowson of The Parsonage, Gee Cross, Hyde, The most important addition mede to the museum recently has been the final sessions of the British Cheshire, was married in mail week. what is called the Onodi Collection. Medical Association. The president,
..
Her husband is Mr. Wright Bad-
The Portland Club has decided not to revise the laws of auction bridge. although players all over the country It consists of 400 specimens illustrar- for example, told a reporter of a deley, a market gardener. The couple are clamouring for a change.
ing the anatomy of the nose, which patient who was about to fly over to are approaching middle age. The best man at the wedding (which took The present code was framed by Professor Adolf Onodi, of Budapest, Germany to see a German doctor place at Hyde Chapel, where the the Card Committee of the ortland collected. It will be shown next who had developed this new method. bride's father has bern minister for Club, with the co-operation of re- October. presentatives of other clubs, in 1914. Seven years have shown the fa tiness of many of the laws and the Portland Club is constantly being asked to adjudicate on the ex- act meaning of its own code.
A year ago the Whist Club of New York drew up an entirely new code of auction bridge rules, which be-1 came effective in the United States In September 1920, and which many players in the country have adopted. The result is confusion.
BOTTLES SET ADRIFT AT
SEA.
2,400 MESSAGES ENCLOSED IN [FIVE LANGUAGES.
"Hunt the Bottle" is the latest writes a Daily scientific game, Chronicle correspondent. It is being used to trace ocean currents.
The real nature of the advance is 55 years) was Mr. Edwin Baddeley. curious it is rather an invention the bridegroom's brother, who has than a discovery. For some time been gardener to the Dowson family, specialists have hoped that they could for many years. cure cancer if they could direct, or,
The gift of the bride's mother was
Es it were, shoot, certain rays into a semi detached house at Ryde, the particular part of the body and where the couple are now living. persuade the affected tissues to absorb them almost as a piece of sugar absorbe water.
The chief difficulty was to find, so to speak, a barrel or tube capable of The chief attraction in the Ameri- An international Council prepared a shooting these penetrative rays. can laws lies in the numerical system scheme, and a large number of drift The rays were so powerful that they of bidding. A bid of a greater numbottles have been liberated during the bombarded the tube to pieces and ber of times in any scit overcalis a past year at the Bell Rock, at nith hindered its shooting powers. This previous bid. Thus "three clubs "Bank, in the Moray Firth, off trouble has been largely overcome. overbids" two no trumps," and "four Buchanness, at Fair Isle, and at Balta A tube one may call it a gun or cannon--has been made which can clubs" or "four diamonds overbids Islend, in the north of the Shetlands,
three no trumps." Other desirable
Although the bottles are simply shoot these immensely powerful rays alterations are in the revoke penalty ordinary sodawater bottles, they are into the body without itself collapsing 50 points for each revoke when the of two types. One is so poised an toander what is now technically called declarer is the offender and 50 points float at the surface, and thes show the "bombardment." or two tricks when the adversaries the surface currents, while the other revoke.
SUCCESS OF PARK MUSIC FOR CHILDREN.
Surgeons and doctors, in short, is weighed to drift along near the bave now in their hands a beneficent bottom, and determine the bottom life-saving pistol of the sort that
science has been "seeking."
currents.
These last bottles have a wire
The
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Leral and Storage of water in reservoirs on the 1st August, 1991
XTT AND ELLUL DINTREET WATER WORKS
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3.
195
$41.00
BILIT
1.47
196.00
125.20
11.00
100
5.180.86
1,031.24
Consumption of water in the Olty Hill Diaries in millions and decimasiz
10.
of gallons during the month of July,
1921 2-4 201 Jundumption --- ***** -- 782-13 Lacunašeč populations w. 171,800-367,730
21.0
KOWLOOK WATER WORKS LETEL
OFFICIAL ORGAN-GRINDERl two feet long, so that they
MYSTERIOUS DISEASE. One great difficulty has been over- are actually kept off the bottom.
Each bottle contains a printed come, but the general medical postcard, with directions la five view is that it is too early to languages to the finder to insert the say whether the affered tissues will
gations. Constant apply in mil Elatelets during London's official organ-grinder, woh place and date el recovery, and to sufiwiently absorb the beneficent
to secure a complete cure. The posi-faly of both 1990 and 1921. has been engaged by the London post the card to the Board's Scientific stream of "bullets," or active rays, County council at a salary of eight Superintendent, Aberdeen.
1REL During the year 2,400 battles weretion is that for the first time eclence shillings a day, has already castrated, comprising 1.100 surface is enabled folly to apply treatment magic spell over poor children in and 1,300 bottom drifters
from which mulch has been hoped
Loral Lim Getty I
See Bestor, with many parts of the metropolis,
Cancer is still very mysterious. A number recovered up to December
STORLAR IN MELLEMR ans doonias de bizto
137 Every evening he goes to some open 1920 was 140 surface and 150 bottom reader of one of the papers in the
Culleon Grentiation -
192.30 space or park where children play, drifters The investigation is still Section of Radiology, where the new treatment was touched on, states
mption of water to Kowloon and his appearance is acclaimed by i going on.
millions and decimals of gallons during th 10th Sept., at 11 am. Prospectuses Trade Ofrentars hundreds of boys and gids, and as the 1 Byter the greater number of the that a patient of his, a woman, had
music begine they join hands and surface bottles as far recovered drift kept herself alive for seven years north of July. dance-
ed northwards, and many of them simply by saying she would not die The favourite tunes are "Swanes" were found on the coast of Norway, of her cancer. She lived, as she put
Another amusing kind of hunt is it, for seven years on her optimum. - kamyon pa kon And Bubbles, and whether the per- for the liberated fish which have been Cancer is mysterious, and the new The Government &valya's reports they formance is at Lincoln's Inn, W.C., or deen Froufs and prompt deliver Limehouse, E., the childre, never fail marked. During the year 1,981 such treatment not yet proved, but, as he rank the water la of andeleus quady.
fish have been released 1156 place concinded, in a year's time we hợp: to respond.
and E15 jernon soles.
to know a good deal.“.
...Wednesday, 7th Bept. ....Tuesday, 30th Sept. CALCUTTA & BANGOOR vis Singapore & Penang:
...Monday, 11th Sept. Saturday, 24th Bept. JAPAN PORTS-Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohama.
Friday,
NAGATO MARU...
TAGAYO MARU
***
NIKKO MARU SHANGHAL, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
BENTES MARU
..
**
**Paperday, 6th Bapt
riday, TYO MARU...
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