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CONSIGNEE NOTICES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.`

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STRAX NAVIGATION CO'S STEAKER

"KHIVA."

Ankitan Hono Kong, 22nd November, 1926

FROM ANTWERP. LONDON, GIBRALTAR, MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS.

JONSIGNEES of Cargo by the above. CONSIGNEES of Cereby informed

that their Goods are being landed and placed at tuus nsx in the Hongkong sad Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where each Consignme will b BOLA

ent Mark by Mark and Delivery ca be obtained 開 the Goods ATR innded.

Optional Goods will be landed here unlear Instructions have been given to the con trary Six hours before animal of the Steamer,

Goods not aleared within days, including

I of Krival he subject to tent, No Fire Insurance will be affected by na in

date

any dass whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in te Golown for examination by the Consignes, an the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. GunDARD

DOUGLAS, at 10 M. on Mondaye and!. Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undarsigned on or before 11th December, 1926, of they will not be recognized.

-No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns,

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Agents.

Hong Koor, 22nd November 1906. 14219

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

AND

OHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIA

SINGAPORE.

CONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer

PREMIUS

Travellers Should

Carry Cuticura

Daily use of the Soap and On:- ment removes the dust and grime of travel, allays irritation, redness and roughness of the Ece and hands and keeps the skin soft and clear under all conditions of ex-) posure. Cutlera Talcim in tra-) grant, enaling and refreshing, an Ideal tollet powder.

Soan. Olutment, Taleam sold throughout 10 wt. British Depot: Z. Horsey & Kata, ikk, kik Bazaar 31, Leziden X & L

*Try the Cuticura Shaving Stick,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29ED, 1926.

The Sign of

THE ADVERTISING

and

PUBLICITY BUREAU

Alexandra Buildings.

The Advertising Agency

...that supplies Advertisers with a Complete Service of Original Copy, Ideas, and Designs for Posters and Blocks,

are hereby notifial that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon where it will tie at Consignees' risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Whart. Tim Cargn will be ready for...that Delivery Ima Godown on and after 22nd November

checks all insertions in Foreign and Chinese papers for Optional Cargo will not be landed here, its Clients,' males Notice been given prior to Steamer's arrival, bat carried on front port to port to...that has an unrivalled and the final port of call to which the option Extensive knowledge of the best

extends.

to bo

AT broken, chafed and damaged Goods are be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined ou any Tacadays and Fridays between the hours of 10.43 LX. and Noos within the Free Storage period.

No Claims will be admitted after the Good! have left the Steamer's Godawn, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 39th November, will be subject to Rent.

All Cams against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 13th December, or they will not be

recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hong Kong, 1212d November, 1926. (4217

THE BÊN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.

FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS,

The Steamship "ŽENDORAN,"

JONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inforth.

of

the

ed that all Gooda ary being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardons · Godowis

HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WEAR AND GODOWN COMPANY, LTD., whence, and/or from the wharves Delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 27th instant, will be.

abject to Bout.

All Clainis against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 18th December, 1926, or they will not be recognized.

All broken, obafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be Bismined on the 29th instant, at 10

No Fe Insurance has been effected. Bulls of Lading will be countersigned by

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD,

Agenta. Hong Kong, 22nd November, 1926 [4218

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION" CO...

STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, & LONDON.

THROUGE BILIS OF LADING ISSUED FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

HE Steamship

14

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His

Captain W. A NORMAN, carrying Majesty's Malle, will be despatched from this Fort on or about THURSDAY: the 25TH NOVEMBER, 1926, at Noor, taling Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.

Bük, Valuables and Tes for Italy, France and Lendon (undar

adar arrangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles And London.

Parcels will be received at this Office until Ur... the Day before Sailing. The contents aud value of all packages must be declared.

For further Particulars, Apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agents. Hongkong, 18th November, 1926.

OVER HALPY A CENTURY REPUTATION

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BALE GLERUSAKAMIA, 2000, 26.

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HONG KONG SHIPPING.

WEEK-END RETURNS..

HEAVY FREIGHTS ON JAPANESE

VESSELS.

The week-end returns showed a slight revival of trade in imports into the Colony, while cargo for ports beyond continued to be good, Japanese vessels passing through on Sunday carried heavy freight for ports beyond. Out of a total tonnage of 16,070, four Japange vessels contributed 13,378 tons...

WHY FACES OCCUR IN FLINTS.

MARKINGS A FREAK OF NATURE,

EXPERTS' VIEW.

A scientific explanation of the remark ably lifelike cameos of human faces and animal figures which appear in the fints on exhibition at the Psychic Museum, in Victoria-street, has been advanced by sealogical experts of the British Museumz and the Natural History Museum, South Kensington.

One of the dints was submitted by a During the 24 hours ended at 9 a.. scientists, who declared that it was Daily Express representative to the en Sunday, there were 0,067 tons of millions of years old, and that the mark- general cargo entered into Hong Kong.ings were due to a freak of nature. Two British vessels contributed 1,300 and the balance of 4,767 tons were car ried by Japanese vessels.

Cargo for porta beyond amounted to 16,076 tons, and with the exception of 100 tons on board a German steamer, the balance were all registered on Japanese vessels.

of an old man with a beetling brow and On the dint was the profile, in white, deep-set eyes. Like the forty or fifty other flints in the collection, the marking goes right through the grain.

Natural.

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Cargo for Hong Kong amounted to 9,970 tons during the 24 hours ended at 0a.m. yesterday. British vessels con- tributed 3,344 tons, the best return was 3.000 tons brought by the Hang Sunga cherty inclusion (Indo-China) from Hongay.

One of the foremost authorities on British Museum through a powerful flints, who examined the specimen at the lens, declared at once that the marking was quite natural.

"The white area is what is known as in the fint," he said. Its chemical composition is the Cargo for ports beyond, during the same, but it is of a different texture from same period totalled 18,880 tons, out the rest of the flint. It is quite common of which British vessels had 14,800 tons to find these cherty inclusions in flints, on board. The best return was 4,381 on and every net and then the outline is the l'hemins from Liverpool and Saigon.of a shape which gives it a resemblance to During the period under review there portrait. These freaks of nature are were 29 arrivals and 23 departures quite well known to science. Their nationalities were:-British,

"The profile on this flint is not that arrivals and 7 departures; Japanese, 10 of a prehistoric face. There never was arrivals and departurea; Norwegian, 14 prehistoric man with such an aquiline arrival and a departures; Chinese, nose. Their noses were more like those arrivals and 3 departures; Dutch, I'

of prizefighters," arrival. Frenrh, departures; German, 1 arrival; American, 1 arrival and i departure.

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Dr. J. A. Bather, keeper of geology At the Natural History Museum, con- curred in the view that the life-like out- line was just a freak of nature.

Vessels in port totalled 70, the nation. alities being as follows:-British, 25 fint," he said, and these curious mark. "There are lot of impurities in American, 2; Norwegian, 2; German, dings are not infrequently found." Panama, Japanese, 8; Chinese, 18; Dutch, 6: Portuguese, 2.

The tabulated lists of arrivals and

clearance will be found elsewhere.

SHIPPING NOTES.

The Norwegian vessel fund, arrivéd in port yesterday and brought 2,000 tons of rice for local discharge.

entered for the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m. The total number of deck passengers media for all classes of Ad-on Sunday was 23. The B. Soochow vertisers,

carried 75; the Sunning 7, and the Haiphong, from Toochow and Swatow that being independent, can ended yesterday, there were 610 deck conveyed. 131. For the same period place all this knowledge and passengers entered. The best returns experience at the free disposal of were 432 from Singapore carried by the its Clients, ensuring that the ad 115 were brought by the Lushan Maru, from Shanghai - and money they spend on Advertising Swatow will bring them the best possible return....

Telephone Central 30.

dosist

nature

However robust

and strong the con- stitution there are times when Nature "requires assistance in relieving congested parts and re. storing normal function.

Nature has no more efficient aid to health than Beecham's Pills.

When the digestive organs refuse to assimi- late food; when the liver It acts sluggishly; when the kidneys 'do not properly perform their allotted duties, then is the time to assist nature to restore sound and vigorous health by taking

Beecham Pillo

THERE'S A

LONG, LONG TRAIL

Bugs, Ficas. Flies, Beetles, Mosquitoes,

etc., all killed by

KEATING'S

DRITZA.

MADE

Jr

The Akita Maru, arrived in port on Sunday with 298 cases Muriatic acid for local discharge.

Dangerous "cargo brought by Tajima Maru was the following: 500 the casks of Chlorate of potash; 60 cases safety cartridges; 20.casks carbonic acid crystal and 6 cases pistols.

The OS.K. boat Kohoku Maru brought 2,500 tons of coal from Keelung on Sunday, for local discharge..

People write to us from all over the world to tell us of ânds of this nature."

CIGAR CLUB FOR WIVES. MEMBERS OBLIGED TO SMOKE IN PUBLIC.

SECRET MEETINGS.

WALLASZY (Cheshire). The wives and daughters el some cf) have formed a club to popularise cigar- the wealthy business men in Wallasey smoking among women.

The smoking of cigars is regarded as modern woman. symbolical of the independence of the

politics from the woman's point of view Meetings are held regularly at which are discussed over ten and int

An obligation to smoke in public if called on is one of the rules of the club, this purpose. and lots are cast to select members for

Two women have been seen with cigars on the promenade. Others have lit up on tram-cara. The club was founded by invited & number of friends to tea, dis- strong exposent of feminism, who tributed cigars, and gave an address on "the doom of male control.'

Less Enthusiasm.

She then proposed that they meet re- gularly in one another's housee, bringing cigars and inviting friends who cared to do the same.

The master of the as. Khive, in The idea caught on, but less enthusiasm a report to the Harbour office yesterday has been shown. since a number of the mentioned the death of an infant while younger and more daring spirits institut can the voyage out from Singapore toed the rule, of public smoking.. Hong Kong. The infant died on October 31st of heat exhaustion. The Khiva carried certain naval stores for Hong Kong.

Many women who contented themselves with small cheroots and mild cigars are now alarmed at the turn of events.

"I only joined for a joke, but now I have not the courage to get out," a mem ber confessed. "It was just a silly craze, but we have egged one another on, and nobody likes to be the first to stop."

At the Marine Court on Saturday, before Lieut.-Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., charges were read against the master of the Chinesa steamer Wong Shek Aung. Defendant was not present, and The meetings of the club are held more it was stated that the ship was not in or less in secret. Maidservants ate sent port. His Worship accordingly put the cut and tea is served by the hostess case over for hearing until this morning herself. at 10.30. The charges preferred are (a) carrying six passengers in excess, of the number allowed and (b) making, a false declaration to the Harbour Master, in respect of clearance papers. Captain R. M. de Sala is the master of the vessel. མ...

According to an announcement made by the Manila agents, the Dollar Liner President Wilson is to be withdrawn from the Pacific run and placed on the round-the-world trip, beginning rext year. The President Wilson will set out on her first trip on this run "from San Francisco on January 29th

The as President Harrison, which is now undergoing repairs at Shanghai, following her grounding near there, will Bail from China ports on January 27th," filling the gap between the steamers Presidents Garfield and Monroe.

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TRANSLATION OF "CLEO.

PATRA'S NEEDLES.” Lady Eve, as chairman of the Local Government Committee of the London County Council has announced that steps are being taken to secure a translation of the hieroglyphics on Cleopatra's Needle and to attach it to the base.

Both Cleopatra's Needles carry inscrip- tions of various dates. The earliest aro of the reign of Thothies III, the next were added three centuries later, about the time of Moice, by Ramises 11., and a third series is lates/still.

The Needler, it will be remembered, were in Alexandria up till about, forty- five years ago. Then one was presented by the Khedive Ismail Pasha to the city of New York and erected in Central Park, and the other came to England They were originally brought to Alexan- dria from Heliopolis in the reign of Tiberius, and afood before the temple of COSSY.

HANDCRAFT

Architecture

ancient and modern One of the greatest and most enduring forms of Handcraft finds

its expression in ancient architecture. But the same spirit which impelled the attainment of perfection in these now ruined Temples, to-day produces equal masterpiece of Handcraft in

Arches and

san

STATE EXPRESS

VIRGINIA

CIGARETTES

555

Made by hand-One at a time!

ARDATH TOBACCO CO., LTD., LONDON

PUBLIC MORALITY IN THE IRISH FREE STATE.

A STRONG INDICTMENT,

DUBLIN, October 13th... At the annual conference of the Catho- lic Truth Society, in Dublin, Judge D. J. O'Brien and Mr. J. M. Fitzgerald, K.C., mada remarkable speeches concern ing the condition of public morality in parts of Southern Ireland. In large parts of the country, said Mr. Fitz- gerald, perjury is the rule and not the exception.

trict in which he lived. The result was that the most serious and horrid crimes remained unpunished.

Judge O'Brien said that while he was alive to the many good features in the life of Catholic Ireland, te saw the criminal courts choked with trials for the most serious offences. Intemperance once more tissue of the nation, while the women of

was threatening the moral. Ireland, formerly renowned for their virtue and honour, were going about now furnished with the paint pot, the lip stick, and the rest ofa meretricions armoury.

con-

"That something is rotten in the moral condition of our country to-day," Speaking of his experience as a pro- cluded Judge O'Brien," will not be secutor he could say that it was virtually denied by the most optimistic. That impossible, from the condition of mind everything is wrong can be asserted only of even the respectable people, to secure by the pessimistic. The truth lice be "a conviction even in the case of patri- tween. Everyone will admit that the cide, where the accused person belonged condition, though critical, is undoubted- to the clase, or was related to the ly curable and is one which will yield to. majority, of the inhabitants of the distreatment, if immediate and drastic."

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