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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FORTNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

Pla Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Buen & Port Bald Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading

to Fiome, Genos. All Italian, Adriatic, Lorant,

Black Bea and Danube Ports

Passengers to LONDON (Overland).

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

For Shanghai

& Japan

S.8. TERGESTEA (cargo vessel)

CONTE ROSSO

FUSIJAMA (cargo vessel)

CONTE VERDE

Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dec. 2 Jon.

For Singapore & Italy Dec. Dec. 11

Jan. 2 Dec. 11 Feb.

HIMALAYA

Attention is called to the 8.8. Conte Rosso and Conte Verde which will do the voyage Hong Kong-Venica In 21 and 22 days respectively thus enabling London Passengers to reach destination the day after disembarkation at Venlee.

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TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,

Wednesday, Wednesday, Saturday,

HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe),. Monday, HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobe). Saturday,

14th December.

11th January. 21st January,

20th December. 21st January.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez

THE CHINA

THE PIONEERS OF PIKE'S PEAK

(Continued from page 7.)

MAIL.

CONSIGNEES.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.

"BENGLOE"

But you are tools they said. us now. Never in our lives, how You will nover come back. You lover, had, wo seen such an assem- don't know what you may meet in blage. There must have been thou. those mountains. You know, what sands upon thousands of them run-The Steamship, Pike said when he came back. Youning about in every direction, collid know the tale he told. And somejing with one another and tumbling CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby things he would not tell."

over one another apparently for no informed that all Goods are being "Don't go, oh, don't go!' my wife reason. The sight made me think landed at their risk into the hazard- ous and/or extra hazardous Godowns cried in agony.

of a gigantic antes' nest overrun with of The Hong Kong and Kowloon "I loved her, yet I forced her from mammoth ents, and an odd sort of Wharf & Godown

Co Ltd., whonce She was

wharves delivery Imo.

success of our enterprise lay the vaded the air struck our nostrils

No claims will be admitted after welfare of thousands. I told her with renewed strength.

the Goods have left the Godowns, and that to comfort her. It was the last

"Now, as we stepped forward into fall. Goods remaining undelivered after time I saw her alive.

the open tract, a strange thing hop-the 6th December, 1932, will be sub-

jeet to ront. "Early in the morning we started. pened, for the entire space, which a

All claims against the steamer We took with us arms, food and moment before had been alive, be must be presented to the Undersigned

Tho on of drink for many days, and the bare came instantly motionless,

or before the 20th December, 1982,| necessities of life. We carried spiders were all there, right under or they will not be recognized. everything ourselves. We knew our eyes, but of

All broken, chafed and damaged one accord they stopped running, where and how Pike had failed. We had

Oddly Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the would succeed.

enough, too, very spider was now 5th December, 1982, at 10a.m., by

felt Mesers. Goddard & Douglas. "A week later we were fairly in facing us. Instinctively wệ the midst of difficulties. The work that we had become objects of in- To comply with the General Bond- we atooded Warehouse Regulations consignees was terribly severe, but we had tense curiosity. And as

must have a Revenue Officer in at determination, strength and cour there, Interested and amused, we tendance

when damaged dotiable age. We had expected to find obcould distinctly see the spiders' goods are examined. stacles, and we were not disappoint- great eyes sticking out and evident ed. Here onormous boulders which ly watching us. The sight would ed. had to be circumvented, there un-have given some people 'the creeps"

waterfalls and ravines but we rather enjoyed it. that delayed us, besides vegetation

(Continued on Page 11.). so thick that in places we had to hack our way through it. Then the unknown dangers. There might be snakes concealed among those im- mense boulders; there might be [death-dealing plants such as flourish in South America-indeed, we did not know what there might not be. But we did not pause to consider those things.

but a unit. In the smell that for several days had or may be obtained.

and/or from the

looked-for

now

"Over a fortnight went by. As we mounted gradually higher and higher our spirits rose as if in sym- pathy. Far down in the valley we had once or twice during our pro- gress caught glimpses of this very Colorado called townlet, 10th December.

of 24th December.

Springs, also of the village 7th January.

Manitou. Tiny villages, indeed, they wore in those days; and as we! saw them from those great heights they looked like little chessboards upon a vast expanse of prairie. And still we fought our way upward.

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

24th December, 21st January:

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

KAGA MARU

† BENGAL MARU:.

Sunday, Thursday,

11th December. 16th December.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU...,

NEW YORK, BOSTON vis Panama.

Tuesday,

6th December... ·

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa

and Valencia.

† DAKAR MARU

† TOTTORI MARU

† YAMAGATA MARU

Sunday,

CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoom.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

↑ MORIOKA MARU

YASUKUNI MARU

Thursday,

Saturday,

Wednesday, Wednesday,

KAMO MARU. (Nagasaki direct) Friday,

+ Cargo only.

11th December.

"How long our expedition had been started I cannot quite remem-i jber, when our surroundings grad- Aually changed. In place of rock and black soil we now came upon "de] tracks of sandy formation. The undergrowth was still dense, how- ever, though here and there thou- Bands upon thousands of slim fir trees lay rotting upon the ground, evidently swept down by terrific storms, for storms in these moun- tains sweep down trees as a reaping machine sweeps down standing corn.j Sometimes we came upon broad, open spaces, spaces swept clear ap- parently in early days by glant waterfalls long since died up. Then, na we penetrated still higher, and the vegetation decreased in density, even the boulders grew smaller. They now looked as though in pre- historic times they had been flung together by a tremendous neismic {disturbance.

8th December. 17th December.

7th December. 7th December." 23rd December.

For further information apply to;~NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA

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6th Dec.

Have you noticed? one of my comrades remarked one day, 'what a quantity of insects there are here? And the rats are, getting more plentiful. Wo seldom see any of those grey squirrels now.'"

"As he spoke he stamped his foot upon an immense brown spider that was running away. Its body burst 27th Dec. with a crack, and glutinous liquid spurted out all round his boot. Al- most instantly several spiders ran out from beneath a large stone as if 24th Dec. to ascertain what had happened. They stopped. For a moment they aecmed for all the world as if they looked at us-looked at us with a 8th Dec. malignant, vindictive expression. Then they scuttled away.

Uth Dec.

I believe I felt several of those spidera scampering over my face last night, he continued. You had better be careful; they bite Uke mis- chief. These mountains are famous for them, and just look at that!'

18

"A couple of large rats were chas ing an enormous spider across a long, fat boulder. A moment later spider 5th Dec. and rats disappeared the edge.

over They say that, mountain rate 2nd Dec. will deveur any living thing Weston sald presently. They will eat fus if wa don't watch them!' he 9th Dec added in fest 18th: Dec.

KEELUNG vis Swałow and

Amoy

Carton Maru:

Sun,

- Homo': Mara

Bun

Thurs.,

#15th Dec.

TAKAO via Swatow and Deli Maru

'Amor

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hens 28081.

During the early part of the Oth Dec. afternoon we had made good pro- dedyd, gress, when suddenly we came upon 4th Dec, a large sloping frost of bars white 11th Dec. sand. The sun, still high in the beavena, shone down upon it, and at first sight the sand seemed to be alive with

«Dawkins said, laughi

you ever thin

surprises.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- Ellis of Lading will be counter-| signed by,

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 29th November, 1932.

Oberland China Mail. A¬WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE.

Amid scenes of memorable galety and brilliant sel- tings, the St. Andrew's Ball, one of the outstanding social events of the Colony, was held at the Peninsula Hotel on November 25. H.E. the Governor, Sir William Peel, K.C.M.G., K.D.E. and Lady Peel, H.E. Admiral Sir Howard Kelly, K.C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., and Lady Kelly, H.E. Major Generál J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., G.O.C., Admiral M. M. Taylor, C-in-C., U.S. "Asiatic Fleet, were among the honoured guests. Among the decorations, pride of place amongst the shields was taken by those con- nected with the Chieftain, Mr. K. E. Greig. Prominently displayed were also the shields of the Stewarts, the Mac- Gregors, the Gunn's and the Mackintosh's, while around the walls of both Rose Room and Roof Garden were draped various other shields, decorated with illuminated thistles. A full report is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL,

* * *

A Police raid carried out on the top floor of 59, Pok- fulam Road on November 23, led to the discovery of a wire-. less station, fitted with a complete short wave transmitting ́ and receiving sel, A Chinese, Yeung Chi-hing, alias Yeung Wah-lan, was taken into custody and the apparatus seized. He was alleged to be agent for an unidentified group. The accused was charged in the Central Police Court yesterday morning before Mr. Wynne-Jones, when he pleaded guilty and was fined the maximum penalty of $1,000, with the alter- native of ten months' hard labour, Mr. D. W. Waterton, Inspector of Wireless and Telegraph, who was present in Court, explained that the short wave set could even trans- mlt to England.

The case is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

Three Japanese coal coolies were killed when a life boat fell from the deck of the CPS. Iner, Empress of Russia, at Nagasaki harbour. As a result of the accident three members of the Chinese crew were detained by the Naga saki Police, but according to a message received by the local C.P.S. office on November 25, the men have now been re leased.

According to the crew of the ship, the matter is said to have preyed on the mind of the No. 1 bo'nun, Leung Ying, to such a degree that he jumped overboard during the voyage from Shanghai to Hong Kong.

A report is given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

After a hearing which lasted four days, the Waller bribery case was brought to a close at the Criminal Sessions before the Chief Justice, Sir Joseph Kempt, on November 24 when the jury, after a short retirement, returned a unani- mous verdict of "Not Guilty."

The case aroused a great deal of public interest and the central figure was Acting Sub-Inspector Herbert Waller, ar- raigned of a charge of receiving from a man named Ho Hong-sang, the sum of $50 as a bribe at Taipo Market on: October 2, with a view to omitting a prosecution in respect of an offence under the Opium Ordinance.

The case is reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

The Colony soccer eleven on November 26 enabled Hong Kong to record a sweeping triumph över Shanghai in Inter- port encounters this year. This is the first Colony triumph on, Shanghai soll. In the five previous encounters Shanghai won on all occasions, netting 20 goals as against the Colony's 7,

The match is fully reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL

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