1933-03-10 — Page 11

FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933.

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, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA. AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLANË PORTE, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c

-MRS. RAEBURN'S

WAXWORK.

(Continued 'from Page-10.)

He asked: "You knew her?" She did not answer him, but said, still peering: "She was taller, she had more dignity, more of an air. And I think she was wilder. But it's long {ago," and her face changed all the

time.

He asked again, trembling, his hands clammy cold, his voice unconsciously menacing: "You knew her?"

serve

For the first time the old creature turned look at him seeming to ob- him closely. She chuckled, and at frat he thought that one of the wax- works had laughed, so ghostly, so un- expected, was this little bubbling sound

in the quietness of the dim hall

She said, still chuckling: "I am Mrs. Raeburn."

And as he did not answer she pulled. back her veil. She was younger than he had at frst supposed. She reveal ed a fat, gross, heavy-jowled face,

unhealthy, with high Mongolian heck-bones, Her nose was squat and{ thick, her cheeks carved with two deep. cut lines running from her nostrils to the corners of her mouth. Her little harn grey eyes were almost buried in folds

of flesh. Beneath the shoddy bonnet a strand of hair hung untidity; it was dyed a bright orange tint. The Patrick, was seamed and stamped with faul and obscene of

every vice

brazen, debauched,

80 brutal

seemed to to be three parts animal, hang in the air. this gargoyle face, to gloat triumphantly upon his horror the and confusion. Then, swiftly, woman whisked back her veil and sald crisply, in her clear and resonant voice:

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY face, which leered forth so boldly a

DIRECT ROY., MAIL STEAMERS.

(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

6.8.

Tons

CORFU

From

About

Boar Konr

COMORIN +*BANGALORE

1933. 15,000 11th Mar

Noon 15,000 26th Mar. 6.100 1st Apr.

17,000 15,000 22nd Apr.

8th Apr.

"BHUTAN

6,800

RANCHI

CARTHAGE

NALDERA

KAISAR-I-HIND

RANPURA CHITRAL

* Cargo only.

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Marseilles à London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Buil Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

The marks

the

uv

"It didn't do me justice, your, while Thon in a moment she was gone, behind her the effigy of Mrs. Raeburn, noisoner, remained standing coal and pale and remote upon her dais, all the pater, all the cooler, for being now the centre of a floud of cold and frozen moonlight.

Patrick fled after the old woman, nat eenuse he wished to see her again, but because of the two of them the waxen Image had become the more repulsive when he reached the Hall of Monar-

she had already disappeared.

23th Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg-j chwaited, rick and shivering, until

17,000 6th May 14,000 20th May 16,000

3rd June 12,000 17th June

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

Calls Casablanca. Call Karachi.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lerent Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

*TILAWA

1933.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

10,000 12th Mar. 11.30 B.m. TALMA

10,000 24th Mar.

8,000 TALAMBA

2nd Apr. Calls Fort Swettenham & Rangoon.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

the clock struck seven and the show shut down, then he went in search of Mr. Mugivan, whom he found in his office, reading an evening paper with his feet on his desk.

"Good evening," said Patrick.

པ་

want to tell you something."

Mr. Mugivan put down his paper. "My word, young fellow, you look cheap. What is it now?"

Patrick, gulping, said: "Do you know who's been here this afternoon?"

"I do not," said Mr. Mugivan "I'm proprietor of a waxwork show, not a magician. Who has been here?"

"Mrs. Raeburn. The real Mrs. Rac- burn. She came to see her waxwork. She's just gone "

As Mr. Mugivan gaped, his red fire became curiously mottled-white, and purple in patches, Patrick noticed dis passionately

"Mrs. Raeburn?" "Yes."

Mr. Mugiyan climbed laboriously from his chair.

ch? "Mrs. Raeburn,

Somebody's been pulling your leg. You don't know your catalogue, either. Mrs. Raeburni

B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for indeed?" 1st and 2nd class passengers,

And he pulled a document from thej untidy desk, licked his thumb, and flipned over a page.

THE CHINA MAIL.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

SAIGON-MARSEILLES AIR MAIL SERVICE.

Letters (Ordinary and registered but not insured), Postcards, and "Autre objets" (Commercial papers, Printed papers and Samples) will conditions be accepted for transmission by this Service. Rates and are shown in the schedules exhibited at the G. P. O. and Kowloon Office.

THE AIR MAIL SERVICE from SAIGON to EUROPE is weekly, The HONG KONG-SAIGON connection will be maintained by the re- gular fortnightly sailing of the FRENCH mail steamers and on alter- nate weeks by any available steamers that can make the connection at SAIGON.

Letters for this route should be marked "Saigon-Marseilles 'Air Mall Service" and handed in at the G. P. O. or Kowloon Post Office.

ولية

Telegrams sent via Radio for Addressees in China may be ad- dressed to Telephone Numbers.

Full detailer y be obtained on application at the Radio Counter.

INWARD MAILS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10.

Siberia

11

Weekly Sailings Transpacific

TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK via PANAMA. Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays. Pres. Grant ...Mar. 15, 1 x.m. Pres. Hoover ́.... Pres. McKinley Pres. Coolidge

TO SEATTLE

and VICTORIA.

Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays Pres. Cleveland

.Mar. 29

Pres. Taft

.Apr. 12

Prem. Jefferson

.Apr. 25

Pres. Madison

.Mar. 18

.Apr. 1

Apr. 15

..Apr. 29

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

Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America

Australia and Manila Japan, Shanghai and Europe via

(London February 18) Amoy Japan

Taiping

SATURDAY, Shanghai and Swatow

MARCH 11.

Corfu Tilawa Kaga Maru

.Suiyang .General Lee Agapenor

12.

.Pres. Cleveland

Pres. Hayes .......... Frea Pierce

Manila Straits

MARCH SUNDAY, U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai (Seattle,

February 18)

OUTWARD MAILS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 10.

Halyang,

Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong.... Kingyuan Swatow, Amoy and Foochow

Straits, Mauritius, Reunion and

*South Africa Foochow

Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe vis Marseliles

Cape St. Francis Kucichow

1 p.. 1 p.m.

2.30 p.m. 3.30 p.m.

Corfu

(Due Marseilles, April 7),

G.P.O. Parcels ........March 10, 5 p.m. Registrations..Mar. 11, 9.45 p.m.) 10 am Letters

K.P.O. Parcels...March 10, 4.30 p.m. Registrations..March 11, 9 a.m.

Letters

*Superscribed Correspondence only.

WARSHIPS IN PORT

The following warships were

in port yesterday:—

Basin. Tamar.

South Wall-Bridgewater,

mew.

East Wall-Falmouth.

Sea-1

10.30 a.m.

\ARRIVAL

OF SHIPS

Wed., Mar. 8.

North Arm-Kent, Wild. Swan, Hunan, British str., 1,621 tons,

Wishart.

West Wall-Hermes.

Dock.-Herald, Odin, Otua. Buoy No. 2-Medway and Sub- 'marines.

Buoy No. 3. Cornwall. Buoy No. 6.Suffolk. Buoy No. 8-Keppel. Buoy No. 7-Bruce. Buoy No. 11.-Whitshed, Wren. Buoy No: 12.-Witch, Whitehall. Foreign:-U.S. river gunboat "was scragged hanged, you under Mindanao; French training cruiser Bland-hanged by the neck for the Jeanne D'Arc; Portuguese cruiser

of her husband more than murder twenty years ago. That being so, Adamastor.

you

"Mrs. Raeburn," he said, speaking

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), very loud and not looking at Patrick,

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

7,000 7,000 7,000

1933. 1st Apr. 2nd May 2nd June

Regular monttily sailings from

And Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & could hardly have seen her here just

Melbourne,

now. And that's enough of your funny

stuff for one day."

Patrick said nothing. There was

really nothing to say. Nor did Mr. Mugivan

CLEARANCES,

Thursday, March 9,

van break the ellence, but waddl Apoey, for Ocean Island. changing his carpet slippers for boots,

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japaned to and fro about the little room. Chengtu, for Canton.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:—

·

The Undon 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom,yla New Lesland, Vancouvar, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Boyal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Bervice of steamers to London via Buen. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamarw for Bouthampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

"BHUTAN SANTHIA CHITRAL RANCHI

+NELLORE *BOUDAN CARTHAGE

VASTERA TANDA

BURDWAN

FAISAR-I-HIND MANTUA RAWALPINDI.

*SOMALI RANPURA RAJPUTANA

1933.

6,000 19th Mar. 8,000 24th Mar. 15,000 24th Mar, 17,000 0th Apr. 7,000 0th Apr, 0800 18th Apr. 14,000 20th Apr. 14,000

4th May 7,000

4th May 6,100 13th May 12,000 18th May 11,600 Ist June

May

17,000 15th June 6,800 13th June 17,000 29th June 17,000 18th July

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'ha, Mejl, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Kobe, & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

S'ha Moji. Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai,

struggling into his overcoat, cramming Cremer, for Singapore.

a check cap upon his head. In a mo-Deli Maru, for Swatow. ment he had gone.

Foo Shing, for Canton. Patrick switched off the office light Friderun, for Rabaul. then went forth, as was his custom,

to extinguish the gas jets in the ex-Glaucus, for Cebu. hibition before locking up for the Hunan, for Canton. night. His comrade of the turnstile Hydrangea, for Swatow. had already gone home: he was alone, Kanchow, for Shanghai. entirely alone, with more than a bun dred waxen effigies. It was now quite Liangchow, for Canton. dark outside, for the moon had fed Morioka Maru, for Yokohama. behind a screen of clouds, and there Nanchang, for Canton. was a pushing sound of strong in New Mathilde, for Canton.

awent in gusts past the shutter Shun Chih, for Saigon.

ed windows.

He pau

paused to light a forbidden Tjibadak, for-Amoy. cigarette, and then tement that reato Chu Kung, for Swatow.

an odd what

monstrous

and

he had seen during the afternoon was to miss the show, doubly welcome be not a ghost, something even more

(cause it was free. sa disembodied soul. The

The wind was strong that night, and foul and evil soul of this wretched ticked the flames eagerly, strengthen- woman whose lovely image had being them until the efforts of the men witched him. The hideous ralfaction of

ous mind. Behind her seeming armed with hose pipes became pathetic hideous A

I beauty had always been this in their futility. At length the TOO! Shanghai, Moji. Kobe & Yokohama.horror, dormant, waiting to leap forth crashed in, and a wall of roaring fame rose as though to leap into the sky, Shal, Moll, Kobe, Osaka

and devour. wind rose, moaning. They were triumphant, these pillars Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

panes, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. batering at the mused, as he of fire, as though they knew that

On such Shanghai, Moll, Kobs & Yokohama.

tramped towards the monarchs, ghouls Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. would surely stalk abroad and witcher Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.. Shanghai, Kobs & Yokohama.

*Cargo only. † Calla. Nagoya & Yokkaichi

Yhama.

All dates ar's approximate and subject to alteration without notion. All Cabins are fitted with Electriz Fans or Punke Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Perosis, mswearing" not more than 8 en A, will be recived at the Com pany's Office up to Noom on the day previons to sailing,

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply be MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. # 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C. Hong Kong.

Agenta.

The

were purifying, Waxwork]

By morning Show was & drenched and sooty ruin.

which

Capt. E. Histed, from Amoy, buoy No. B16. - B. & S. Kidderpore, British str., 3,268 tons, Capt. M. G. Draper, from Shanghai, buoy No. A2- M.M. & Co.

Thurs., Mar. 9. Daviken, Norwegian str., 1.778 tons, Capt. G. Svane, from Swatow, buoy No. B2. J.M. & Co.

Haiyang, British str., 1,863 tons. Capt. W. G. Erwin, from Swatow, Douglas Wharf. Douglas & Co.

Kamo, British str., 725 tons, Capt. L. Beer, from Port Karfa, Yaumati

Anchor-

age.-- Williamson & Co. Kueichow, British str.. 1,220 tons, Capt. A. H. Bathurst, from Canton, buoy No. B16.

B. & S.

Morioka Maru, Japanese str., 3,095 tons, Capt. M. Bumi, from Singapore, buoy No.' A3. - N.Y.K.

Nanchang, British str., 1,448 tons, Capt. J. Robinson, from Swatow, buoy No. B21. - B. & S.

New Mathilde, British str., 842 tons, Capt. R. F. Mitchell, from Pakhof, buoy No. C1.—me, Yik Tal & Co.

+

Ranpura, British str., 9,381 tons, Capt. G. H. S. Furlong, frum London, Kowloon Wharf M.M. & Co.

Somerville,

Solviken, Norwegian str., 1,435 tona, Capt. Hessch, from Canton, Taikoo Dock. -- J.M. & Co.

Norwegian str., 2,525 tons, Capt. A. Kalten- börn, from Shanghai, Stone- Jeb- cutters Anchorage. Ben & Co.

soar through the air clutching their Many of the figures were entirely der. Shun Lee, Chinese str., 949 tons, broomsticks and screaming aloud troyed, the monarcha having been on

their

lust for Satan. Vampires, sorcerers, the whole unluckier than the murder. fiends, nightmare pack of horrors.

And

cry. Down in the Hall () Curiosities:

Capt. B. Miyaoka, frem Swatow, buoy No. B10: a Yee Tat Hong,

Japanese str.,. 2,342 tons, Capt. Ohara, from Mike, buoy No. A8. - M.B.K.

He stretched on tip-toe to lower tho and Horrors there were a few aur Taikal Maru,

Impassive gas above the wan,

face of King Richard II And in the old vors. Same were quite untouched. days witches were burnt alive like the Mra, Raeburn, for instance, appeared each to have emerged unscathed from the guys now consumed by flames

stood Fifth of November

ordest, and after

upon her dais prou ly and gracefully,

PRIS

handa burning he supposed that these evil

wan her

And breast women could do no more harm but demurely unan

closer, inspection, wore destroyed for ever, they and their ved not to be entirely unharmed. spella. A good job, too. He entered Her waxen face had melted, and run- ning, the stuff had twisted upon hor feature a strange and devilish sheer,

the second chamber.

*

A BANANA CARRYING MOTOR SHIP.

A ship ballt That night the Inhabitants of the Save for her pride of carriage ahe I was transport ・ of city were surprised to perceive a

Then

Fortnightly sallings on Saturdays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.

$a.m.

.Mar. 18 Pres. Monroe ... .Apr.

1 Pres. Van Buren

TO MANILA

8 a.m. ..Apr. 18 Apr. 29

Next Sailing, Pres. Cleveland Mar. 12; 8 p.m.

Pres. Hayes·· Pres. Hoover Prex. Taft Pres. Pierce

Pres McKinley

.Mar. 18 Pren. Jefferson .Mar. 21 Pres. Monros .Mar. 25 Pres. Coolidge ...Apr. 1 Pres. Madison

.Apr. 4 Pres. Van Buren

Apr. 8

Apr. 15

Apr. 18

Apr. 22

.Apr. 29

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UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.

The following unclaimed tele gram are lying at the office of the Great Northern Telegraph Company (Limited) of Den

tark

c/o Peninjula Hotel, Winn,

bananas between Schloe, F. & O. 8.N. Co., from

Guinea) and Shanghai.

made further discovery Bonakry (y for the from Kobe,

unroe,

And then

distorted. son flush sweeping the sky above is the roof-top of a distant strept

Lylag near by, where the flames had Bordeaux has been launched at Port Puan Chen-chea, c/o Wa Hon came a clanging of belin, a roar of crackled mont Bercely, was a charred de Boss. She has a capacity of Hong, from Shanghai, motor-engines, and, hot-foot in par- and sodden bundle of clothing. They 40,000 bunches Diesel machinery suit of the fire brigade, a yalling, ex- bent; in examine, la It was, they is installed and the speed will be 14] citod rabble, Mugivan's Waxwork Ex-found, a human body, the body of a Jknots.

young mar

bibition was on fire. Ne ons wanted.

F. V. JENSEN,

Superintendent

Hong Kong, March 1, 1983,

The following unclaimed tele- grams are lying at the Eastern Ex- tension Telegraph Co.'s office:-

Mrs. MacCaloch, Hong Kong Hotel, from Calcutta.

Shewan Tomės, from Alexandria. Orienair, from Londonpo, Rigg, passenger, "Comorin," P. 49. B.N. Co., from Bingapore. Burn, Peninsular Hotel, Kow loon, from Klangs kober

Max Kania Gloucester Building; from Farnborough, Kants.

0.0. CLARKE,

Kanager. Hong Kong, March 2, 1988.