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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.

(BOTAL PACKET NAVIGATION CO. ON BATAVIA).

*THE STEAMSHIP

"VAN CLOON"

12th February, 1925

For SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN-DELI DIRECT,

Offers excellent Saloon accommodation.

All lower berths.

English cuisine.

Doctor carried. Wireless telegraph.

1st Class Fare to Singapore-$100,

In connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K.P.M.) Services to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indies and Australia.

Agents:-

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LIJN,

Telephone 1574.

Jor

TS. 21

PAINS

YOZE BUILDING, CUATII ROAD

INDIGESTION

AFTER

EATING.

BILIOUSNESS.

HEADACHES,

TAKE

For fatulence, acidity. heartburn or con- stipation, no rentedy it so sure, so rapid or be well recommended as Mother Seiget's Syrup. The medicinal, herlud extracts contained in thn Syrup make it the finest stomach and hver tonic knewn. As a family 'remely, with a sound reputation for never-failing efficacy, it has no rival in the regard, në hartë në people who owe their good health to its regular use.

MOTHER

SYRUP

SEIGELS

The "HOLBORN”. SOLID STEEL

SAFE

BENT COLD FROM A SINGLE PLATE WITHOUT SEAMS OR JOINS

£5:10:0

BODY.-The body is constructed of highest dality mael, and is bent geld by newer! à machineTY, at all twalut, corners, thun scaming absence of 122 mama and joints,

DOON-The door in touch steel fin, in thick. sess, and is hung on wrought need castres,”

LOCKCASE-The lookcase in 23 in, in thick. mom and ättad, with slighne bolisaj front and continu our belt as back: thin bo'ị nhọn door is closed shonce sasu miy into (bawawi built su lining of safn.

BRITISH MADE

FIRE RESISTING CHAMBERS: ~~~ T- Fire-resisting Chambers are 24 ju in thichaour, Giled with Fire-renstine matenal to Gorezamest specification and as constructed, that when door isclosed tanta are completely verounded by ward så fire renting ceria

LOCK-The whola reczené by Chubb's four- lever unpickable lock, with duoliai Legu

FINISH-Estelled in kruchu e yle.fined sad „erol'ed an lockzuse and do the whole peascann

• Kat can aANCE.

OUTSIDE MEASURAMENTS.

Height With Broth

JASON MRA SPREMENTS (given above drawer)

Holzhe

The base is a selection of dnes from our Sires 23 in to 29 in, sind with a drawer. Size

30 in two drawsti,

CABLES,

'SAGE' LONDON

Drpsb

APPR WIGHT

10 18

PRICE

list which wil be gladly mal'ed, Put Frie

Size 32 in. to 42 in two drawers and non abef, 49 in to 72 ist. wd drawers and two rains

Packed and delivered, Docks British Port

FREDK. SAGE & Co. Ltd. ESTABLISHED

SHOP BANK & OFFICE FITTERS

58-62 GRAY'S INN ROAD. LONDON, W.C.,

WITHOUT FURE BLOOD HEALTH IS IMPOSSIBLE.

VETARZO BLOOD

MEDICINE

Never before was there anything like it, nor are itą marvellous properties likely over to be agualled in diseases arising from Impure blood. It searches ont and expats from the vital current every lurking trace of poisonous matter, enring blood and skin diseases, eerofulous and glandular swellings, bad legs, abanasasa, nicers, eczema, gout, rheuma tirm, goitre er Derbyshire Neck, etc. It improves the general health and quickly. removes long-standing brennkitis, asthma and hasking, straining, spasmodia cong, too often the preaurier of consumption.

LAVE- WTEHOUT HALAH 18 LIVING DEATH.

VETARZO BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD.

For Nervous Breakdown and Chronio Weakness, VETARZO REGULATORS. Sals and Beliable."

Mardiah Price 35. (sither remedy). The VETARZO REMEDIES 00., Gospol Osk, W.W.6, London, Eng, Unprincipled Dealers may try to sell you something else er sutra proftendo nos accept it. Insist on having VEPARZO. The gentine has words. VETARZO REMEDIES" on Government Blany. Bold by Lwamie CasKH ÜBEURS,

CHINA AUCTION

YOR

ROOMS.

"GOOD" THINGS AND REAL BARGAINS Come to The

CHINA AUCTION ROOMS,

Chias Building,

Ground Floor,

OUR

PODOS

OR DIREIT, OFF, KILOIL,18,qUAIVAN

ZMAZIRATION, BAD GROVAL, AND ALL FOOT

DYČE, ANTWERY

YHEDER AND KORR NEST,

BEGLIH PRIOR S/-. ALL YEAHMAQUEL

NOK KITU KAUTVIKANYAM

BAZM

MARINE INSURANCE,

AUSTRALIAN ORGANIZATION'S

NEW CLAUSE.

The Marine Underwriters' Association of Australia has recently adopted clause to apply to all shipments covered against pilferage and theft. The clause read as under, and special attention maybe directed to the condition that claims must be made within ten days of steamer's discharge:

In consideration of an additional premium as arranged, it is hereby agreed that this policy covers the risk of theft eulo pilferage irrespective of percentage; but the Company's liability in respect of any goods so lost is not to exceed their shipping or in- sured value, whichever is the smaller. No liability for loss to attach hereto unless notice of survey has been given to the Company's Agents within 10 days after completion of discharge of the vessel's enrgo.

115

Shipping Value,

useil above, means the prime cost of the goods to the Assured by whom or on whose be half the insurance is affected, plus the expenses of and incidentul, to shipping and the charges of insurance....

This Company's liability only in succeed and not in any way to supersede any claim which the Insured may be entitled to make upon the shipowners, ship's agents or other parties. Further

ore, the Company to entitled to any amounts recovered from the Car riers or others in respect of such losses (less cost of recovery, if any) up to the amount paid by them in respect of the

loss.

The extra premium charged for pilfer nge on cargo to South Africa and the East is now as follows:-

S. Africa Coast Towns... /- per cent S. Afrien Inland Towns... 107 per cent. Main Eastern Potta

5 per cent.

LARGEST MOTOR-LINER,

ENOUGH FUEL TO TRAVEL 15,000 MILES.

14TH, 1925

spection at Southampton on January 18

Two hundred guests attended an in- of the world's largest motor-liner, the rangi, built by the Fairfield Shipbuild- ing Co., of Glasgow, for the Union Steam ship Company of New Zealand, for the Vancouver and Australasing trade.

The

pioneer passenger liner trading in Australasia, driven by Diesel engines. she displaces 3,000 tons, and has acton!- modation for 440 first-class, 300 second- class, and 200 third class passengers.

She has eight cabins de luxe, with tele- phones installed, a spring dance floor in the lounge, and microphones to broadcast uusic throughout the ship,

The Aerangi can travel 13,000 miles without being replenished with fuel oil and is equipped with a new type of life- hoat davit, by which a beat containing so persons can be lowered by one man in less than five minutes.

The ship left Southampton on the 2nd ult. for Sydney and New Zealand via Jamaica, Panama, and the Pacific coast ports.

CANNIBAL MURDERER.

BRACES MADE OF HUMAN SKIN.

Another mass murderer, who appears also to have been a camibal, has been Muensterberg, near Breslau. discovered in the sma!!

ol A beggar Denke was invited to come inside, and who visited the house of a man named

was then asked to write a letter. While him with a pickaxe, but the beggar fled he was doing so his host tried to kill

and fetched the police, who arrested Denke. The latter, however, was not brought to trial as he hanged himself

n his prison cell.

The examination of the house resulted in a gruesome discovery. Several woeden A YEAR OF STRESS.

tubs were found containing parts of human bodies, which, the doctors state, Speaking at the annual general belonger to three area, who had been cut meeting of the Institute of London En.into pieces and preserved in salt, Denks derwritern, Mr. Herbert T. Hines, the himself was wearing braces made of chairman, said the year 1994 had been human skin. It is thought that he had one of stress for those engaged in marine been committing murders for several years past, and the mumber of his victims may even exceed that of the Hanover anrdered Hearman.

insurance.

Prevailing conditions had produced competition of the most severe type, and under these circumstances the duty of protecting the basic and fundamentai principles and safeguards of marine insurance had entailed very heavy work and much anxiety The diticalty of Arranging and maintaining tarifs for marine business was, of course, known to all. underwriters, and it had been necessary to give special consideration to this matter. To this end a sub-com- mittee had been appointed to go careful- ly into the details

QUEER CARGOES.

They

Thirteen tons of dried flies formed part of the cargo of a fiuer which arrived at Plymouth in December last. came from Mexico, and are to be used in the manufacture of paint. Dried fies are also imported from Brazil, but not for paint-making. These are made up into food for poultry and pheasants.

SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONGKONG.

Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich."

Sunrise. Sunset.

36.m.

Besides all the ordinary necessaries, such as wheat, meat, oranges, and to- bacco, which come pouring into Great Britain from abroad, there arrive quantity of goods so fantastic, that, when you read their descriptions on the manifest, you are driven to wonder of what possible use they can be to anyone. For instance, a case of walrus whiskers- you might make many rain guesses as to Mr. the purpose to which these were to bo turned before, you were told that they are to be made into toothpicks.

Frogs skins, again. Now and then a package of these.comes from India, and they are used-of all things-for book- binding. It appears that the skin of this Indian frog makes a very fine soft leather which, when dyed, takes the most delicate colours. A well-known English binder has produced some wonderful

ffects by the use of frogs' akina

Twenty-five.Tasmanian Devils" may sound rather a gruesome consignment, yet it was only, ono lat in a cargo of Australian animals and birds which reached London. The devils," in spite of their name, were not nearly so

das- gerous as a case of diseases brought to Southampton on board a cargo steamer arriving from the west coast of Africa. The case was actually full of cultures of germs of blackwater fever, malarjal fevers, and all kinds of tropical dis

CLACS,

Sanils and frogs come to London in large quantities and find their way to Sobo, where there are cocks who, koow how to turn them into toothsome "dishes, and twice a year a Chinese vessel comes up the Thames laden with Chinese dried foods for the Chinese population of Eng land. Sen slug, shark's fin, peanut and ginger jelly, the diest of the sen swallow- these and many other strange luxuries imported in quantities-T. "C. Béinges, in the Daily skil,

London's new are float, the design of which incorporates all the latest im- provements, is to be built by Merry- weathers of Greenwich, the well-known fire engineers. The new vessel, which LONDON BUYING AGENTS with internal combustion engines of 220 will be 70 feet in length, will be fitted We offer you our services as buying E.H.P., and Merryweather turbine agents for British or Continental goods pumps having a capacity of 2,000 gallons Established in 1844 but thoroughly up-to per minute. Merryweathers have built date, our raccOME. attained by making our numerous are floste for the British aurkamers' interes rour Brat aims. Fit Admiralty, various foreign governments, expert buyers, with capable staffs, manage and most of the largest port and dock different departments, buying, with greate care every clans of goods giving on authorities throughout the world, and customers all the advantage of will, the new vessel for London will arouse experience, and ensuring their requirement keen interest in fire brigado circles ne belagzightly supplied at lowest price and it will embody all the results of the best discounts.

builders unrivalled experience collate Prally with features called for by the #pecial requirements of the officers of the London Fire Brigade.

KEYMER, BON & CO, Whitefraim, London. Telegrama" Keymer, London.” Kat. 1844.

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