1932-12-24 — Page 13

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932,

P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND),

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, KAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

Yuletide

Brevities

Facts Not Known

To Everyone.

December 25 was New Year's Day in. Anglo-Saxon times.

The original mince-pie was made of mutton and baked in the shape of a manger.

Christmastido extends from Christmas Eve, December 24, to the Epiphany, January 6.

"Yuletide" originally meant" "Alotide" in the time of year when

the churches distributed ale.

If a term of Imprisonment ends on Christmas Day, the prisoner is freed the day preceding.

The old English name for Christ- mus, "Criates Maesse," is first found in records of the date 1038.

In England and Ireland Christ- mas Day is a holiday by custom only, in Scotland it is a Bank Holi day by statute.

"Ho" holly has prickly leaves, and "she" holly his smooth leaves. In many country districts holly is talk-

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY ed of thus.

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)

6.8.

Tons Hong Kong

Froth

About

1932.

KAISAR-J-HIND

+SOUDAN

1*MIRZAPORE RANCHI CARTHAGE +BURDWAN

NALDERA RAJPUTANA **SOMALI

CORPU COMORIN +BANGALORE

RANPURA SHITRAL

*Cargo only,

Destination.

12,000 31st Dec. Bombay, Marsellies & London.

Noon 1933.

7th Jan.

6,800

0,700 10th Jan. 17,000 14th Jan. 14,000 28th Jan. 6,100 4th Feb.

17,000 25th Feb.

Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

H'burg. R'dam, A'worp & Hull. Stralta, Colombo & Bombay, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsailles, Havre, London,

R'dam A'werp &

H'bark

& Hull,

Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

The celobration of the birth of Christ is said to have boon fixed for December 25 by Aurelian, 273 A.D., to replace the festival of a sun-god held on that day.

Although workers In factories must be given a whole holiday on Christmas Day and a pawnbroker is liable to a fine of 510 if he does Jany business on that day, it is not. illegal for other people to work if they feel so disposed.

There was once a long break in England. In 1644 Cromwell in the observance of Christmas forbade the festival, and ordered that De- cember 25 should be a day of fast- ing and penitence. All the churches were closed. Christmas returned with the advent of Charles II.

16,000 11th Feb., Havre,

London, Hombur symbolise the Wise Men's gifts.

0.800 4th Mar.

15,000 11th Mar. 15,000 25th Mar.

6,100 1st Apr.

17,000 8th Apr. 15,000 22nd Apr.

Calls Casablanca.

& Hull.

Antwerp Barseilles & London.

& London.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

‡Calls. Karachi and Marmagoa.

Frequent connection from Port Bald for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports' by steamers of the Khedivin! Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS,

TILAWA

TALMA SANTHIA

1932.

10,000 28th Dec. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

2.30 p.m.

1938.

10,000 10th Jan. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 23rd Jan. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

* Calls at Rangoon,

A pretty legend is that mincepies

THE CHINA MAIL.

KING'S THEATRE

COMMENCING TO-MORROW.

EUROPE SUEZ

AMERICA W.SUEZ

«STRAIT 5 AVO INDIA, INTER PORTI

The President Liners

TÒ CALIFORNIA

TO NEW YORK vez conqua)

TO SEATTLE VICTORIA

INTERPORT

Weekly Sailings Transpacific

TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK. via PANAMA..

The candied peel standa for gold; frankincense and myrrh being re- presented by spice and cinnamon. Old-time mince-ples were shaped roughly cradle fashion, in remem- brance of the sacred manger.

SILENT AS THE GRAVE.

(Continued from Page 12.)

He realised what had happened. The fý must have come in unob served when he himself entered

through the door. He could seo the damnable thing flaunting itself --bzzz, bzzz-about his head, and

', 'dren

Pawed by menu hounded by policet: Yot in another Year... New York and Berlin would Had with the Fare ‚aw" the soft tesuty::

of this glamorous

Nut Week

Marlene DIETRICH The Blonde Venus

KING'S THEATRE

DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.).

10

16

7 8 19

12.

15

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18

20

23

floor of pernot threw back the sound and amplified its echoes till the air and John Collingwood's head were full of it.

21

25 26

30

132

34 :

106

42·143

48

52

55

156 157

B.I.. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for suddenly all the hatred and horror tet and 2nd class passengers.

of noise which had racked him for years boiled up in concentrated anger. Here was a noise incarnate

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), which he could crush out of

1932.

NANKIN

NELLORE TANDA

7,000 81st Dec.

1933, 7,000 1st Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar,

Begular monthly 'sallings from

* Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Bydney-19 days.

existence. He was gleefully con scious of his power to squash the thing to a pulp. He seized an Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & exercise book and started in pur-

Melbourne.

sult. Perhaps it was the maddest thing the world has ever seen--the most brilliant brain in existence venomously concentrated on killing

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan‡ one tiny Insect—of no- value, - no

Frequent comactions from Australia with the following:

importance, no significance.

But it had significance for Col- lingwood. For him that buzzing.

The Union B.B. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New insect symbolised Noise and he desland, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, etc.

The P. 40. Royal Hall Steamers to London and

The P. & 0. Branch Servies of stormers to London via Suas, The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southamptos London via Panama Canal.·

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

*BURDWAN SANTHIA CARTHAGE

+NELLORE TAKADA NALDERA SOMALI

RAJPUTANA

CORFU

1982.

6,500 29th Dec. Shangbat, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,000 80th Dec.. Amoy, Shal, Mejl, Kobe 14,000, 80th Dec. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

1938...

To

meant to exterminate it. squash the thing utterly and en- tirely became an obsession with jhim. As though sware of his in- and tentions the ay eluded him in fran- tic flight and the noise of its In- credibly swift wings filled the room. Collingwood padded after it, stumbling against packing cases, cursing and beating the air with his paper weapon. And

Osaka.

7,000 5th Jan. S'hai, Moji, Kobs, Osaka & Thame 7,000 18th Jan. Amoy, S'hat, Moll, Kobe & Osaka 16,000 13th Jan. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Tokohama,

Yokohama, 8,800 25th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe &

Jan: Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,080 15,000 10th Feb.

Shanghai, Kobe & 3 Yokohama, 8,500 23rd Feb, Shangal, Kobe Yokobama. 15,000 24th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 17,000 10th Mar. Shanghal, Kobo & Yokoluma.

6,000 19th Max. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 23rd Mar, Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama,

Cargo only. Calls Nagoya and Yokkaicht,

BANGALORE COMORINE FANPURA *BHUTAN CHITEAL

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion.

All Cabins are Aited with Electria Fans or Fooks Louvre Bystem.

Australian LowOK ST

NON, Counar

apply: to>

It settled on the table and he had, it but no, it was up and off again, buzzing furiously. Would it or would it not settle on the wall7 It would, it did a quietly; quietly, he stalked it as a hunter |might big game-... smack, smack, smack, frantic and insensate blows of his rolled up paper book, but

the fly had escaped him.

1-Vacant.

63

HORIZONTAL

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-leather-

10-Jaar, 11-Ascenda

18-Denia

15 Pronoun.

17-Girl's name

45

#7

51

54

| HORIZONTAL (Sont-)'): VERTICAL (Cont)

49-Allegates the

14-The nostrils 15-Door fastoner (pl.)

31-Point of compass – 16-Cooked in hot,

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abbie,)

62-Fifty-atx (Roman)

19-Butt

53-From this time

20-Provide

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58-Calls for repetitions 20-Fish with hook-and 21-National Automobile] 81-A motal

Filho.

1-A gem weight 20-Parity

Asavolation (abbr.) 62-Piece of bed linen-81-In,no manner [22-Rub out

[33-A stockade in

28-Three (Roman)

24-An enchantress

64-Uncanny

Homer's OdyBOY) VERTICAL 27-Empire (abbr.).

28 Fine velvet

30-Gaina

32-8mart

34-in a greater degree 33-One of the British

["Sales (abbr.) 37-Halts

1-Entrep

2-Joined

3-A vegetable 4-To raise with a

Vi ropa:(Naut}

6-Common

-7-Edg

6-Farm animal

- 30-Removes the sin

43-Portion WANYI B-Packing

44-Holy Roman Empira 10-Mountain, In Arabia

bag (abbr.) "NAKA(Bb). 46–A Epanish Utle 48-Assist

12-Kilted 113-skip

The solution of the above with a new

appear in Tuesday, issue.

He knew that he was losing his sense of proportion about the thing and then got past that know- ledge and awore aloud and was the top of his voice, still- near to the tears that mean sasp- that he was pursuing his ped nerves. The hated black spot emy But his cries were settled in the angle of the wall back from the pernot behind him. He wheeled swiftly the landlady, busy in the basem and lunged across the room, his outside, heard not a sound.. foot fouled, a packing case and for Strange people, professors and a second he fought desperately for students from remote universitie balance on the polished pernot, who seldom left their retreats to then both feet shot from under him face any sort of social light, came and as he foll forward, bis teraple to John Collingwood's funeral caught the pointed edge of the mourn his most untimely death. Ar table with terrible force,

his coin was lowered Into the grave the silence was brokes by the de risive howling of a dog, THE END

Ho lived for dve minutes, during which time, though he was uncon Bulous he called out and shound at

TO SEATTLE and

VICTORIA.

Fortnightly sollings on Saturdays

Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays.

Pres. Coolidge

Jan. 4

Pres. Madison

Pres. Wihon

Jan. 18

Pres. Cleveland

Prea. Hoover

..Feb. 1

Pren, Talt

.Feb 15 Pres. Jefferson

Pres. Jackson

...Jan. 7

„Jan. 21

Feb. 4

Feb. 18

ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA. Special through rates to Europe via United States. Direct. connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rall lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privi- leges for sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application.

Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America

Fortnightly, sailings on Saturdays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Aleexandrin, Naples, Genos, Marseilles, New York and Boston.

B 4.51.

Pres. Van Buren......................Jan. 7 Pres. Polk

Pres. Garfield

Jan. 21 Pres. Adams

TO MANILA

$ .. Feb. 4 .Feb. 18

Next Sailing, Pres. Coolidge, Dec. 27, 6 p.m.

Pres. Madison

Pren. Van Borea

Fres. Wilson Pres. Cleveland Prea. Gardeld

Dee. 31 Pres. Hoover Jan. 7 Pres, Talt Jan. 10 Pren. Polk Jan. 14 Pres. Jackson Jan, 21 Pres. Jefferson

.Jan. 24

Jan. 28

.Feb. 4

.Feb. 7

Feb. 11

CONNECTING WITH S.S. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO, ZAMBOANGA.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

CANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Shakee Street.

BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE EXPRESS SERVICE TO NEW YORK

Via

SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES PANAMA.

Next Sailing

M.V. "TAI SHAN"

on JANUARY 18th.

All Vessels Have Excellent Accommodation

for 12 Passengers.

Hong Kong to San Francisco"

Hong Kong to Los Angeles Hong Kong to New York'

Time in

Transit. Fores

.25 days G$190.00 :

***G$195,00 G$310.00

For Passanger and Freight and information please apply

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings.

Agents. Telephone 28021.

KAIPING COAL

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

HOME,

FACTORY

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36-Hymn

AND

37-6ond, out in taya

88-Gwerve from a

course

BUNKERS

89-Plural of penNY

41-Lago

143-Baa; homes {48-Moved: expidly

{47–Astruit, as of troops

149-A youngʻllani,

50 Meaning.

16-Lace fabrie

07-A church offeľa)

(abbr.)

59 Greek letter

50-Over (Poet) erpaa-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAYS SOLUTION.

WAS REL

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POWER

HOUSE

TUGS &

LOCOS

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Hend Office: TIENTSIN,

Agents: DODWELL & CO., LTD, Hong Kong

STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS,

The B.L. & Apcar Line 66. Santhin- left Bingapore for this Port on the 22nd instant, and fs [dus here on the 28th instant,

The ILM:8. Empress of. Asla caye here for Victoria and;

via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohams at hoon

CONSIGNEES NOTICE.

Consignees of Cargo EX “55..

are reminded to take de- livery of their goods which will subject to rent after December

Cingalego Prince” Pic satisifrom Shang- tant ovaning; and (ih.

at

80,

Empress of Asia His dua here at 8 am

ere on 27th instant

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