1954-04-17 — Page 18

THE: CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17; 1951.

BUTTERFIELD the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

and SWIRE

“CHINA "NAVICATION CO., LTD.

BAILINGS TO

Singapore Penang,

على

Balls from Custodian Wäärt

Port

10 a 21st Apr.

5 p.m. 21st Apr.

18th Apr.IT

7 a.m. 19th Apr.

19th Apr.

*SZECHUEN"

Belawan

Swellendam

"SHENGKING"

. Ker}l}}

ARRIVALS FROM

"SZECHUEN" "SHENGKING"

| Jung

"PAKHOF

A.O. LINE

TAIYUAN"

"TATUAN"

Tanjong Mani

.Shanghai

LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

SAILINGS TO

Yokkaichi,

Nagoya,

Yakobama Kobe

Киге

ARRIVALS FROM

Australin & Manila

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Ballings to Europe vla Aden & Port

"ANTILOCHUS"

"CYCLOPS"

"PERSEUN“

"LAOMEDON"

"ANCHISES"

The Toy Train Becomes Real!

→Mr. Merlin Did It with His Magic Words

By MAX TRELL

was only a toy train..

and Hanid, Knert shadow children turned-about names, und

Doesn't Go Any Place

tho

with

the Alio

28th Apr.

23rd Apr.

Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Mr Punch and Mary Jane, the Rag Doll, and General Tio, the Canary Tin Soldier, and the and Mrs Cuckoo, who lived in- Alde tho cuckoo

11 clockt, watched the little train as it run around the track, clicking and clacking on it went.

Sala

Loads Liverpool & Dublin 23rd Apr.

Genoa,

Balls

24th Apr.

Rotterdam,

Amsterdam, London &

Hamburg

24th Apr.

25th Apr.

Marseilles, Liverpool &

Glasgow

ath May

Liverpool & Glasgow

13th May

Liverpool

Dubin

23rd May

dth May 14th May 24th May

Haila Liverpool

Arrives

Hant Hong

25th Apr.

2nu May

8th May

14th May

S. "LAOMEDON"

Scheduled Balilngs from Europe

G. "ANCHINES"

S. "CLYTONEUS"

G. "PYERJ1LN"

S. AENEAS”

G. "EUMAEUŠ“

9. "ASCANIUS"

G. "PELEUN"

Sulled du

18th Apr 24th Apr, 3rd May 7th Muy

Nails Rotterüam

13th May

25th May 29th May 7th Juano 13th June

G. Loading Glasgow beture Liverpool S. Loading Swansea before Liverpool

Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to load and discharge cargo.

"AJAX"

DE LA Rama Lines

ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS.

"HAINAN"

"AGAMEMNON"

"DONA AURORA"

"DONA ALICIA"

Halls N.Y.

Nailed

Hink

-do- 24th Apr. 81 y

Sajle S.F.

Sailed 16th Apr. 4th May 10th May 30th May

Are, UL.K.

6th May

15 May

3rd Jun

14th June

28th June

SAILINGS for NEW YORK, via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, CRISTOBAL and JAPAN

"TELEMACHUS"

"DONA NATI"

"MANGALORE“

Louds

19th Apr.

4th May

18th May

Balle

2014 Apr.

5th May

20th May

Accepting cargo for Kangston and to Central & Bouth American ports on

through bills of lading,

Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

Relatn

1004)

JK/Bangkok/ingapore (DC-4)

Depart Hongkong

9 00

10 00 D315.

HR, Man! 56/11 N. Borneo

150/25an1/loophong.

BK/Bangkok/Singapore

7:00 DC-3) DC-3) (0-4)

CUST

12 001 K

TK/Bangkok/Thinguonz

(DC-4)

Calcutta

Monday

Tuesday

Tue. & F.

Wednesday Thursday

1.30 p.m. Fiklay

All the above subject to Alteration without police,

for particular plozia apply to:-

Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd.

1 Connaught Rd. Tat: 30331/8

Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. Wait.

EVERETT

Tel: 25875.32144.24678

LINES

EVERETT ORIENT LINE

Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Sium, Malaya, Hangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.

"REBEVERETT"

Arrives

Sails

Apr. 17 from Singapore Apr. 17 for Yokohama, Nagoya,

"LENEVERETT"

Arrives Salls

Kobe & Osaka.

Apr. 23 from Manila.

Apr. 24 for Singapore, Rangoon

&

Penang, Calcutta.

(Accepting enrge for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kobe/OkinawS)

EVERETT STAR LINE

Fast regular freight-refrigerator--passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- Chion, Sium, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf Ports.

"THAI"

Arrives Sails

Apr. 23 froin Japan.

Apr. 24 for Singapore, Port Sweiten- ham, Madras, Colombo,

Bombay, Karachi, Khorra

shahr, Basrah, Kuwait & Bahrein,

"STAR ALCYONE"

"But it doesn't really go any- "It where," Könrf suld sadly. Just goes past the sofa and past the table and past the window and back again to the sofa,"

Everyone else agreed with Knart. The train didn't take a very long trip.

said Teddy. "And besides," the Stuffed Bear, bo one rides on 11. Real trains have passen- Beru,"

Mr

was just then that Merlin, the Magician, came out from behind the bookcase where he had his ollee. He glanced ut the train, which had stopped running, and he glanced at the sad faces in the room.

"Here," he said, "what's the trouble?"

he said to Mr Merlin,

there aren't any passengers. It

Mr. Punch was the engineer.

COLOURING EGGS FOR EASTER GAME

YOLOURING

C

eggs makes party occasion.

the egg-dye colours

2

Easter magazines and mount them on

cardboard. Select hyacinths, daffodils, cro-

real squares of nies, Have uses any ready Hide the

spring BowCTS. pictures about

tho

and con name each flower correctly wine

in paper cups, wax pencils room. Whoover anda the big- too in order that everyone gest bouquet can write his own nante, on store flower.. Flowers that his CER and take it cannot be named do not score. home.

Rabbit Race makes for fun. A string is led handkerchief or about the ankles and a Hop is made to 'tho finish line. A chocolate bunny to the winner.

There is no trick to boiling egga. Simply place the eggs in cold water to which a tablespoon of salt has been added. Adjust the burner to low heat so

For the Egg Game, everyone the eggs will come to the is given an egg-shaped piece of They waved to the engineer.boiling point slowly. When paper, a pencil along with it. who waved back to them from the water bubbles, turn the From a baskot, cach player the window of the locomotive.

draws a single printed word heat to the It was Mr Punch.

simmering The object is to write an Eas level and leave the eggs in ter poen about the word boarded the They all Tho

the water

Should fifteen minutes, drawn.

ono player Jobamolive huffed and puffed. The bell clanged. Away after which you immerse draw the word "chicken" they went.

them in cold water to pre ingle might read like this:

chicks vent those dark rings form- Candy

and toy-stora Onca more the Canary

"Ping around the yolka. Now

Somo are fat

and come peured, walking through truin and calling out: Tickets! the eggs ure ready to be

much thinner marked and then You can have your sweets and Show your tickets!" le pecked dried,

cotton nal hole in each ticket with dyed. his sharp bill. He was now the

conductor.

An Amazing Trip

trnin.

the

chickens

his

oro

1 prefer mine fried for dinner.

Whoever writes the zanjest poem gets the prize of a choco- late egg.

While the eggs are boiling, It It was an amazing trip. The is a good time to play Fox and

The chickens hop The colouring of the eggs can Knarf explained about the train roared past an enormous Chickens. train. "It doesn't go anywhere," meuntath standing on top of on one foot, the fox runs about occupy the group unul refresh- Serve any davour "And four great hills (and it all look-on all fours and he must catch ment time.

a chicken in this position. The ice cream, a candy egg on the ed like an enormous sofn). Then chicken he captures becomes a top of the scoop, vari-coloured they passed a great high field fox too and the more foxes, the cupcakes in a basket, Individual (which looked like a table)-more exellement. "We can Then they came to a great open

pop bollles wrapped in green Easter Flowers is another paper, a flower altached with a place flooded with sunshine

game. Cut your pictures from plpe-stem cleaner to the cap. (and it looked like a window)

finally they ...and

reached Constantinople.

Isn'l like u real train at all."

Mr Merlin smiled.

fx that," he said,

Some Surprising Things

Theo u number of surprising

things happened. First of all,

And there, standing in the

Mr Merlin mumbled some magic middle of Constantinople was ae

with

was

Mr Merlin, the

words, And the next instant, siniling man, wearing a red fez. the whole room turned into a Enllway station

ticket windows, train gutes, a baggage ruoin, a big clock and an in- formation desk at which, strangely enough,

Mr

Merlin himself was sitting and giving

put Limetables to Knarf and Hanid and Mary Jane. They were all carrying valises.

Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, had suddenly turned into a porter. Mrs Cuckoo kept calling out, *All aboard! all aboard! Trains for Australia, the North Pole, Boston, San Francisco and Constantinople!"

"Let's go to Constantinople!” Knart suld to Hanld and Mary Jane.

They all hurried through the gate. The Cubory stood at the gale, dressed in a gate man's uniform.

The train stood at the trucks, but it wasn't u toy train any it was a regular big

more. train with steam hissing and a mun, dressed in engineer's

topping

wheels the overalls, with a hammer. When the man looked up. Knarf and Hanid saw to their surprise that it was General Tin, the Tin Soldier.

With Words

It

ELOW Magician.

are statements B

5. Rancour means (a) (1 will, "We're certainly lucky Lo

giving four quite dif- (b) by chance, (c) of high de know magician like you," ferent meanings for each tree, or (d) heavy. Hand said to Mr Merlin, as

peccarlito is (0) they rode back home again. "I of 10 words. Read the four

Then select the musical instrument (b) a'pickle, Isn't everybody who can change meanings. a loy railroad into a real rail-correct one for each word. (c) a bull fighter, or (d) a minor

Circle it if you like.

rond."

"Nothing to 18," replied Mr Merlin, the Magician, modestly. "Is

as easy as ple. All you have to do is know how."

1.

8. A

£

error.

7. A scallion is (a) a rascal, Millennium means (a) the (b) a kind of onion, (c) £ end of the world, (b) 1,000 years, klichen boy, or (d) something (e) being able to walk a mlie, very hot. or (d) acquiring $1,000,000.

2. A psychologist is one who

Did You Know is (a) a student of the mind, (b) a very large tree, (c) a dress

That

It is believed that eyeglasses wure invented Ja Florence, Italy, about 1285?

A sequin la (a) a fish, (b) ornament, or (d) a story con- Unuing an earlier one,

9.

D

u tiresome speaker, (c) a ductor who works with children, or (1) a student of history.

Dilemma incans (u) 3. A pediatrician is (a) flavouring, (b) a garden flower, schoolteacher, (b) a good walker, (e) a process in arithmetic, or (e) a foot doctor, or (d) a doctor (d) a choice between two ways who works with children.

of behaving, Geese appear In the inscrip- 4. A canteen is (a) a cover- tions left by the earliest civilisa-ing for a bed, (b) a dance, (c) 10. A cygnet is (a) something tions?

a place where soldiers buy sup- girls wear in their hair, (b) ā Rice paper is not made from plies, or (d; part of a long young swan, (e) a sarcastic re- rice but from parte of small poem, trees found in the swampy forests of Furmuse?

It is safe to hold a queen bee in your hand since they only un their stings on other queen bees?

Rupert and the Black Spark-29

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When the two friends are a safe distance away Rupert calls to the spark. Then there is a long pause. Art. you sure it understood you asks Bingo. "I hope you're not pulling my leg with This park story of yours Re- member, I haven't seen your spark

change colout yet. It's been black. to me so far.' "Look, look,** cries Rupert. "It's starting " for a point of light has appeared. fire red, then white. Next minute the bright spark leaps off the spade and lands on the curly part of the firework. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

mark, or (d) signing your name. (Solutions on Page 20)

Australia West Pacific Line

M.V. CITOS.

Loading on 20th April

for

BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE

via

Manila, Sandakan, Tarakan, Lae

and

Rabaul

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents Tel. 28021/6

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD &

TO AND FROM EUROPE FAST. REGULAR SERVICE

Sailed

Soiled ⚫Boiled Apr. 30

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL §.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE

Outward **CHUSAN”

"CANTON"

"CARTHAGE"

Laaves London Due Hongkera

10th March

lit April

29th April

In Dorl

.

4th May

31st May

Beathampton, Part Baid, Adem, Bombay, Colombo,

Homewards

"CHUSAN"

"CANTON"

Penang a singapore,

Leaves Hongkong Das Landun

2nd May

12th May

"CARTHAGE" 4th June

Dist Bay

12th Juno

6th July

Accepting cargo for singapore, Penang, Colombo, Hombay. Aden, Port said à London

Baila 19th April for Yokohama and Kebo.

Outwards "SHILLONG” Homewards "SURAT"

FREIGHT SERVICE

Arriving

26th April Londing

Din May.

For

From UK

Singapore. Port Bwetioniin, Penang. Fort Columbo Auten,

Baki, Genoa, Marsellies, Hayne, London. Antwerp, Butterdum & Hamburk

With liberty to call at deiawan before or after Straits forts and as flombay if indyremena offers.

Tanks availablo for GATEO of Ou ita Balk Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation

BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTR.

"GANGES"

loads 28th Apr.

Ball 29th Apr.

"SANTHIA”

dus 4th May

olh May

"FULTALA"

dno all

6th May

th May

الأمر

for Singapore, Pennlig, stangoon, Chittagong Cakutta

from Japan

Iet Bingapore, Penang, Rangoon Calcutta from Japan

for Singapore, Rangoon & Chittagong

P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE

“UMAKIA”

"OLANDA"

"OKHLA"

due 21st Apr. salls 23rd Apr.

due Jat May sails 2nd May

Abe 6th May salis 7th Bay

from Persian Gulf, for Japan

from Persian Gulf

for Japan

from Japana

for Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, horramshahr, and basrull, Kuwait. other Qui Porta via Bombay

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.

"NELLOLE”

due. 17th Apr. from Japan

salis 23rd Apr.

L

"ŃANKIŇ"

Que? £nd May Ball 2 May

fur Auckland,

For Sydney bourne

frot Japan

Welling- Mel-

for Labuan. Sandakan, Manus. Townsville, Brisbane. Sydney, Mel- bourne 34 Adelaide

All vessels have liberty to call at may porta on or off the runté & the route & salling are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.

For rull particulurs apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4.

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

| P.Q. Bəx 135′′ Queen's Building · Tel: 26651

HONGKONG to MARSEILLES in 24 days.

sailing April 22nd sailing May

“VIETNAM "CAMBODGE"

15th

sailing May 5th

Bailing May 28th

HONGKONG to CASABLANCA in 30 days. "IRAQUADDY” "INDUS"

LLOYD

TRIESTINO

EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE HONGKONG to GENOA

IN DAYS

Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Aden, Suez, Port Said and Naples By NEW AIR CONDITIONED LUXURY LINERS

M.Y. “ASIA??

M.V.

ARRIVALS

Vemels Spils:

T/8 "Nabeb" M/S "Hamburg” T/S "Hoechst"

Hamburg Safled Solled Apr. 22

Brenen

Antwerp

Botterdam

Due ILK.

Sailed

Apr. 27

NORD LLOYD

Arrives Sails

Apr. 25 from Sandakan,

Apr. 26 for Kobe and Yokohama,

Vemels

T/B "Lover-

Insen

Balls ILK.

Due:

Sailed Apr. 24

SAILINGS

Gerson

Salled Apr. 28

May. 10

Jude 2

(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Puma and Kobe/Okinawa)

May 20

For Singapore, Penang, Aden, Port Bold Ar Europeon Ports.

June 18

Juno 21

...

Marsellies Antworp

June 18

June 22

June 30 July

Rotterdam Hamburg

July

June 24*

July

June 26

July 10

Most

EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A

(Incórparated, ta thaktepublic of Vabama

With "Lilly" Lisbiliyy

Chinese Department: Telephone 28293. Queen's ; Building, Telephone: 31205,

12, Pedder

ALL VESSEL, ACCEPTING CARGO FOR WEST AFRICAN RØRST, NA

General Apenter JEISIN &

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINTE

87041

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and

VICTORIA?

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