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PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL

STEAMERS

UNDER CONTRACT WITH EM. GOVERNMENT.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

From Tons Hong Kong

About

15,000 19th Oct.

17,000 14th Dec

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Dombay, Marseilles & London. Saraits, Colombo & Bombay.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham

burg Rotterdam. Antwerp &

• Hal Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & Loadoż Marseilles. Havre, London, Ham,

bury Antwerp, Rotterdam, & Hall

Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay. Marseilles & London,

SCHITRAL

ŞCATHAY

1,100

*JEYPORE

3.000

**SOMALI

7,000

2nd Nov, 8th Nov.

9th Nov.

RAWALPINDI SCORFU

BANGALORE

17,000 16th Nov. 14,000 30th Nov. 6.000

7th Dec.

SRANCHI SNALDERA

**BHUTAN

CARTHAGE **BEHAR

SŘAJPUTANA

16.000 28th Dec.

6.000.

14,500

6,000 18th Jan.

bury, E'dam, Antwerp & Hall.

11th Jan.

Bombay, Marseilles & London

*SOUDAN

SCHITRAL SCATHAY

"BURDWAN

THE CHINA

SHANGHAI RINK ARE BADLY THRASHED

(Continued from Page 4)

Good Play Absent

Glover shipped the rink for the third time, but the splendid tac ties that featured his former games were sadly absent. He was never "master of the situation although, in fairness, to

him. it must be admitted that the poor support he received from his front (men was not conducive to brilliant

play.

J. Lopes, who played at lead for the second time. was only a shadow of his former self, and permitted J. Ramsay, his opposite. Ito, out-general him on the majority

of the heads. Yesterday proved | what the other matches hinted at -Shanghai is sadly in need of a good lead.

J. Monro, the Shanghai skipper, did not add to his reputation by his performance-yesterday for he was lamentably without judgment | where green was concerned. pecially playing on the back handi towards Austin Road:

Richards' Consistency

[es-

The only one to reproduce «ear- lier form was C. Richards, for. though he did not play what is often described as an inspired game, he had his colleagues beaten for consistency.

and

All four local players were, in

Omar fine trim, especially Bradbury, the former for his bril-

liant drives and the latter for some excellent blocking and draw, |ing.

Bradbury did remarkably well, particularly towards the finish when he reached the pinnacle of

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1935

ARABIA

DJIBOUTI

m

ADDIS ABA

BRITISH! SOMAL

JALIAN SOMALIL

INDIAN

OCEAN

The shaded portion of our map shows the territory granted te Anglo-American interests by Emperor Haile Selassie, which comprises more than half his empire. Observers believed this deamaic coop, might halt the pending Italian invasion, but it .5 only 'aggravated the situation.

TREASURE HUNT

¿Continued from Page 109

were

members of this profession The clue could hardly be called

recruited largely from the lower, not the middle, classes; so the a bathing one. It referred”. ob-

heroine's father viously to the old dove cote under with the minimum of erasion, to was promoted, They master upholsterer." which sound- trooped off, with all the alacrityed at once more dignified and more of prisoners detailed for Siberia inrutal

the eaves of the stables.

4th Jan Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham. Perfection that all bowlers striveja Russian film. Major Tiler stay at the moment Harold was hay-

17.000 25th Jan. 7,000 lat Feb.

15,000 3th Feb. 15,000 22th Feb. 6.000 29th Feb.

sent

Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-would be, and very often

burg, R'dam & Hall.

both woods down to within a foot

Bombay, Marseilles & London

for. Ramsay proved to be a fared behind in the porch apparent!

ing difficulty with the Licensing better lead than I had expected he he was trying to light his pipe-Laws. If you had your high tex]

A quarter of an hour later the bedraggled posse stood in a long, six did that give the master- low loft at the farther end of upholsterer and his cronies a fair chance of getting partially in- which pigeon-holes punctured the

toxicated on the way home? He a little pyramíd obscurity

made a note: “Ask Major Tiler There was a strong, almost over- The following are the results of whelming smell of horses. decom-

about pubs." It paid to be Interports since 1918: 1918 Shanghai beat Hong Kong ball intents and

position, and old mice. It was, to thorough even in literature.

purposes. pitch

Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- of the jack

burg, R'dam Antwerp & Hall Marseilles & London.

Marseille & London.

Marseilles, Havre. London, Ham-~ burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hail

Cargo only. + Calls Casablanca.

§ Calls Tangier

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Piraeus, Syimrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA

SANTHIA

TALMA

SIRDHANA

TAKADA TILAWA

APCAR

A

8,000 27th Oct. 10,000

8th Nov

SAILINGS

8.000 22nd Nov, Singapore, Penang Rangoon and 7,000 -6th Dec. Calcutta.

100,000

20th Dec.

Calls Port Swettenham

Now is

the time to visit Custralia & New Zealand

Bands of Sunshine and Romance. "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing Fishing. Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you--including 25/- for your pound

On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet or hectic for the E. & A. will humour your every whim

And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course à Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine Laundry.

A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not.

INTERPORT RESULTS

30 shots to 11.

1919

Hong Kong beat Shanghai by dark.

27 shots to 13.

1920

20 shots to 18.

1921

Hong Kong beat Shanghai by

23 shots to 22.12

showed them little beyond

own shiny and disgruntled

He re-read his morning's work; substituted "antimacassar” for

With a cheerful click Mr. Ruskaspidistra" in one of the atmos- Shanghai beat Hong Kong by jlit his gold cigarette lighter.

pheric, bits; yawned and wander- ed downstairs. His mother found faces him, as il-luck would have it reading the "Tatler" in the draw-

1922 Shanghai beat Hong Kong by and a number of horribly

1923

24 shots to $.

their

inde-

finable shapes which might have. ing-room. Lady Leatherhead was Hong Kong beat Shanghai by been anything from ectoplasmable, in the circumstances, even to in a very domineering mood. Un- 11924 Shanghai beat Hong Kong by Dales of jute. With an eerie y pretend that he was looking for Miss Golistone announced that a copy Harold was driven out to rat had passed over her foot.

27 shots to 23.

20 shots to 14.

1925 Hong Kong beat Shanghai by

28 shots to 8.

1926-Shanghai beat Hong Kong by

19 shots to 17.

1927 Hong Kong lost to Shanghai by

∙13. shots to 17.-

20 shots to 19.

1928. "Shanghai lost to Hong Kong by 1929 Hong Kong beat Shanghai by 1930 Shanghai beat Hong Kong by

2 games to L 1931 Hong Kong lost to Shanghai by

19 shots to 17.

feet ploughed through a layer of nameless debris, they cursed Lady Leatherhead in their hearts.

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""Poor thing," said Miss Buxter join and superintend ambiguously. "Im going ahead. sure-hunters. Most bitter blow of She went ahead, and the hue and all he had his own gambit played ery followed her, shuffling along in on him with conspicuous success.

"Do you a gingerly way, like young men mother" that Tolstoi sat about suppose," bayed his dancing-with their aunts. Their|

reading the Tatler all day?"

Harold stumbled blindly away in search of his raincoat to all in-thological straws. In this crists have been written under the stress Suddenly there was a rending But even as he twitched it irrit- other. They resumed their surge in parts legible only with diffcnity. tents and purposes a broken man, one lagopus was as good as an of some violent emotion, and is crash and. from somewhere below 1932 Shanghai lost to Hong Kong by them a sound which had more in

fably from its peg inspiration came towards the billiard room.

But I must admit that the first ◊ games to 3.

Harold saw to it that he was word, which is followed by three 1933 Hong Kong beat Shanghai by it of the wallop than the thud, to him. He remembered that he

knew where the treasure: was there first. 2 games to 1.

The party stood rooted to the spot.

{unmistakable exclamation marks, Shanghai beat Hong Kong by 3A large, ragged hole gaped in the were as good as his....

bidden The sweets of revenge The two stuffed

ptarmigan looks to me very much like "Para- Hong Kong lost to Shanghai by worn-exten boards before them,

watched each other intently, like sites. The second is certainly Z games to L

The next ten minutes he spent duellists, over a tuft of blasted "Numskulls; and (here he looked and through it filtered up the voice

at a writing table. Then he went heather of Miss Buxter, swearing like a

Moths had long since fall at his audience), "the third is out to face the elements and his eaten the better part of their "Pests." debutanta..

mother's guests, blithely, with head plumage, but by one of those acci- you, scum! Why do you come It goes on Be off with [erect.

dents so common in old-fashioned clambering over each other after The pack, when he came up with taxidermy the one looked at my food cluttering my house.

1934

1935

1 game to 2.

least we had almost forgotten-the cuisine will set you listening eagerly LAWRENCE'S

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CROWNING

"Are you all right?" they called down to her. You could not, from

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(Continued from Page Li W. Lawrence, Lionel Roza-Pereira and A. A. Roza broke away from the others at the start and swam

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2nd Nov. Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney

7,000 -7,000 30th Nov. Melbourne & Hobart 7,000 31st Dec.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

17,000 18th Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

RAWALPINDI

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SERDHANA CORFU

TANDA

TAKADA RANCHI TILAWA *BHUTAN

10 a.m.

tably.

Veteran Competes The veteran swimmer, C. J. Cooke, again competed and finish

6,000 31st Oct. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.||| 8,000 31st Oct. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 14,500 1st-Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

7,000

3rd Nov. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 7,000 14th Nov, Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 17,000 -15th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 28th Nov, Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. -6,000 28th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 16,000 29th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

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have deduced, whether they expect-

in full cry, though Virginia Goll-ly indignant. There was dras bodies, drooling out your insuffer ed the answer "Yes" or "No" but stone was not far from tears, hav- in their eternal vigil it was less difficult to gather which ing sustained contusions from

table small-talk at my table? 2 The treasure-a large parcel Why do you submit to the infan would have pleased them best.

bradawl in the potting shed. containing Kinglake's "History of tile and degrading pastimes which It appeared, however, that she Major Tiler, reappearing from the the Crimean War and two pots I devise for you? You are like so

than 2

“Mark over's" the cry

And August's the season

If you want to know why,

堂:

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILING 5 neck-and-neck for quite a dis-was all right, comparatively speak direction of "The Swan," alone of home-made jam-Harold had many performing fleas, only far tance. Though endeavouring to ing. She had landed on a pile of seemed cheerful, and insisted on already removed and hidden. The less sagacious; I only wish you keep a straight course, they were bay in a loose-box, and was suffer singing the Marseillaise. Henry hunt arrived panting. to find him were the same size as they are, carried towards Wanchai by the ing from nothing more

Taint took Harold aside.

with nothing but an envelope in so that I could crush you all with current. When over halfway had slight nervous shock. They, who

"Look here," he said, in a voice his hands. as much which strong men use when ask-

a sharp downward blow

of my been covered Lawrence had forged were suffering from ahead, followed by Roza-Ferei, a themselves, made haste to descending their best friend to save a were conscious of a renewed in-things!

"Money," thought most, and hand Run away, horrible little and da Roza He won comfor They found Miss Buxter in her ballet for the woman, "can't you terest

Know yourselves." for loose-box, but the reunion was not,

what you are, and run away while get this over a bit quicker? “Tickets for charity ball,” you can.” from her point of view, a wholly We're only at the seventh clue" thought Hugo Rollack, who had Harold paused.. "There is satisfactory one, since the door

"Leave it to me," said Harold, been stung that way before. good deal more," he said, "but I was locked and it was quite imposan elfu gleam flickering in

his ed sixth, the same position off in search of help one and all

"More ruddy verse," prophesied wold rather not read it, if you sible to climb out. As they moved salient eyeballs."

Major Tiler, not quite under his don't mind. My mother has these which he finished last year.

very noticeable breath:

moods... Miss V. Thirwell, the winner of were surprised to find how apt.

Gravely and in silence, Haroid An awinl silence hung over the the Ladies' section, benefited to a how vivid, was the analogy which

opened the envelope; gravely and billiard-room The very hackles Ask sportsmen the resson.” very great extent by the advice each had unconsciously half-formű-

in silence read the single sheet of on the bearskin rug seemed to rise she received from her father. She ated between Miss Burter and a

It was Clue No. 12-Lady Les notepaper it contained. Then he in horror. On the wall Landseer's did not follow the rest of the horse. To see her now you would therhead's swan-song as a poetess. looked up and passed a his swimmers, but struck a westerly have thought that she had lived all I know!" cried Miss Buxter, across his brow in a dazed way fawn, grew liquid-eyed with panic. hand creations, down to the humblest course to beat Miss Doris Hunt her life in a loose box. It seem-The stuffed grouse in the billiard- This is a very strange thing." A pair of boer's tusks made as i the holder, by almost three mined really almost a pity to detach room

he said in a hollow voice, "but I to chatter, in alarm her from so-perfect a setting. Their goal in sight, her fellow am compelled to read it out, for egg-bound these twenty-seven The clock, The two youngsters, the Misses Shortly before all this happened seekers felt the spirit of competithe treasure is to be shared by all years, began to tiek nervously Poon Kwai-hing and Kam Fung-Harold laid down his fountain tion stir within them for the first who sought it." wah were soon left behind after pen. His novel of middle clam time. They began to shamble off He cleared his throat. “Oh, do Harold in a low voice. "Your lug- "Shall I order the cars?" asked the start but finished gamely life was the bigger, if not the bet with a kind of furtive alacrity. go on urged someone. "The gage can be sent on.”

After the race the prizes were ter, by some seventy words. They But "Hey!" roared a voice, and treasure" (Harold's voice was a They nodded in silence; and in distributed by Lady Macgregor, described the heroine's anguish of they stopped. It was Bobuck, little shaky to begin with) "18 silence left the room. after which she said she would mind as she prepred a high tea lodging a sportsman's protest. "Self-Knowledge. Here he broke like in future to present a trophy for her drunken father and his say (he said, "look here; I mean off and looked round him in a bloody but unbowedy "better luck Heigh-ho!" sighed Miss Burber, to the first lady swimmer nader friends. Her father had begun they aren't grouse, you know. sorrowful, deprecating way. "Inext time.” 14 years of age to finish the the book as an upholsterer, but They're ptarmigan" But no one ought to explain" he went on. WoSan

was that sort of eone had told Harold that the else was in a mood to split orai- "that the whole thing appears to

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