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THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

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(Direct)

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AGENTS.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

CONSIGNEES,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD.

AND

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.

Company's

Consignees Steamar

per

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1921.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

From EUROPE & STRAITS, The Steamship

** MISHIMA “ having arrived from the above poris, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and Go-delivery can be obtained as 3000

as the tioods are landed.

"POLYPHEMUS ** are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged his Holt Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees' risk and subject to terms and conditions of storage at Holt's wharf. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from down on and after 12th Dec.

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival.

Optional Goods will be carried on unless instructions are given to the contrary before Noon To- day.

Mr. Ernest Costs, the head of the household, is variously de- scribed as an electrical engineer, commission agent, and furniture dealer. Probably be followed all these ccsupations ia turn.

FINANCE DIFFICULTIES.

Once affluent, his fortunes seem to have been on the decline! during recent years, and he is supposed to have been struggling with Baancial difficulties before his death.

His wife, Maria, was a Spanish woman, aged about 60, and his senior by some 15 years. She had previously been married, and about her early days little is known.

twice

Sometimes she spoke myster- ously about her friendship with the Spanish Royal Family, and how as a nursa in their service she had saved the life of King Alonso after an stlack by anar- chists,

All broken, chafed, and damag-

Goods not cleared by the 20th. ed goods are to be left in the Doc., 1921, will be subject to Godowns, where they will be rent.

DAUGHTER'S TRAGIC HISTORY. examined on any Tuesdays and Damaged packagos must be Mrs. Daisy Townend, daughter Fridays between the bours of laft in the Godowns for examin- of Mr. Coates, appears to have 10.45 m. and noon within theation by the Consignres and the bad a past as tragis as any of the fces storage period.

Co's representatives at an ap-four. A robust, good-looking pointed hour on Tuesday and Fri-woman, she was formerly on the day. All claims must be presented stage, and later became a concars within ten days of the steamer's singer of some note. arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized. No claims will be adraitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

NIPPON TUSEN KABHA,

Agents.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 17th December, will be subject to

real

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 31st Deć. or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Agents.

Hongkong, 11th Dec., 1921.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

·OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

From NEW ORLEANS vis YOKOHAMA & NAGASAKI The Campany's Steamship

the Godowns.

Hongkong. 13th Dec., 1921.

SECRETS OF STREATHAM

HOUSE OF DEATH.

Glasses of Poisoned Wine.

What is the real secret of the fourfold tragedy at the locked mansion in Leigham Court-road, Streatham, London?

About two years so she married, and went to Canada with her husband, but two months later she returned-alone.

Latterly, she declined in health, and looked pale and worn. Then, about six months ago, she had to be taken to a hospital, where she spend five months, and bad to underg> serious operations.

Ever since she returned home, Mrs. Townsend had been an in valid and her health was a source of continual Rolely to her mother.

Henry de Marron, Mrs. Coates's s0D, WAR A strange, eccentric, man, whose mind seems to have given way under the stress of WAT service. He invariably went about without collar or tie, and s Was there a death compactį between man and wife to exter-long overcoat that reached down miaste the whole of their family? to his beels.

Probably the fall story will}

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FROM 7.30a.m. to 10 p.m.

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CHEESE

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Canadian Salmon Canadian Haddock. Canadian Kippers Canadian Blasters

Canadian Turkey

Canadian Potatoes...

...

FISH

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$1.10 per lk

$1.95 per jar

1.00 per lb.

80 cts. per lb.

65 ols. perib. 50 cts per

30 els, per ..

50 ela. per „

...$1.50 per l

08 cls, per lb.

VEGETABLES

FRUITS Californian Grape Fruit and Oranges. Canadian Apples · ·

Haring the facilities in our refrigerators for carrying large stocks of Meat, Poultry and Game (both cooked and uncooked) we are in a position to supply the public with produce ready for the table at short notice. Our Bakery, and Pastry Department is in charge of an experienced French Chef, Monsieur Robalgis (late of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York).

never come to light, but enough i It was about Whitsuntide, in ENGLISH MADE. has been discovered to indicate 1919, that the Cosles took up some of the underlying causes their residence in The Knowle, bobind mysterious family drama. in Leigham Court-road. From French Grey

It is known that Scotland Yard this time their fortunes seem to officials beld a warrant for the have been steadily declining, but arrest of Mr. Ernest Coates on the crisis seems to have come certain serious chames, which when Mrs. Townsend went into would have been executed on the hospital. afternoon that the discovery of the tragedy was made.

tained.

POISONED WINE.

According to what Mrs. Coates told some of her neighbours, her daughter's illness proved very vic.expensive, and coming on top of other financial embarassments, it seemed to have preyed on the miad of the mother.

However, nobody who koew

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ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS, HONGKONG.

"CHICAGO MARU." baving arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godawn Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are handed.

Goods not cleared by the 19th Dec., 1921 will be subject to rent. Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examin-

It is believed that the four ation by the Consignees' repre- tims died through drinking wine, sentative and the Company's and, with a view to determining Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and this, the district coroner has Douglas, at 10 a.. on Wednesday requested Dr. Spilsbory, the and Saturday. All claims must

Home Office expert, to make a be presented within Ten days of postmortem examination. the steamer's arrival here, after If it is necessary for an analysis, which date they cannot be re- the services of Dr. Jewsbury cognized. No claim will be ad- or Mr. Webster, the assistants of mitted after the goods have left Dr. W. H. Willcox, will be re-her customary supply of food, in Coates wrote to a maidservant, feel irritated and you have few cluding 2 lbs. of butter, and a who had been with the family for or no headaches, omit any im- An empty wine bottle and a number of glasses have been large piece of ham. Certainly, she about two months, and who had mediate concern about your eyes. taken possession of be the police. did not then appear to have been been seat away for the week-end, If on the contrary, any of the How many of the family deli-contemplating the end that was that she would not require her above symptoms annoy you, at berately prepared for their death in store for her.

services any more.

least have your eyes examined.

it is impossible to say.

Of the events on Sunday very CHARGE AGAINST THE HUSBAND. Glasses may give you unexpected little is known, and much has to Isisuggested that Mrs. Costes,

Had the supposed murders and comfort on required occasions. realising the unfortunate position be surmised. In the afternoon suicides been delayed for but The Refracting Chamber of the in which her husband was placed, the family was alive-they were another 24 hours, Mr. Coutes Hongkong Optical Co., Successors entered into a death compact with seen in the garden by neigh would have been in the hands of to Clark & Co. Refracting and Manufacturing Opticians, located him to obliterale the whole of bours-but from then until the the law.

tice when the police broke open the family.

A warrant had already been in 53, Queen's Road L'eutral, is at the locked doors of the maisonette taken out for his arrest, which your service, sod you can rest TRIED TO BUY, MORPHIA.

and discovered the tragedy noth was to have been executed by assured that glasses will not be It is known that a man answering is known.

Detective-Inspector Hill, of New recommended unless needed. ing somewhat to the description Probably Mr. Eraest Coates Scotland Yard. It is understood of. Costes calle a: several staged the drama alone. chemists' shops in the neighbour-wrote three letters foreshadowing ed misappropriation of money.

He that the charges concerned alleg-| hood attempting to purchase the tragedy-one to the coroner, morphia in such a quantity as to one to his brother, and the third raise the suspicions of the to chemists, and in consequence house.

the other occupants of the they declined to supply him.

These letters are now in the Each member of the family possession of Scotland Yard. had a strange bistory. Their They contain a detailed explana house was a house of mystery, tion of the affairs of the family. and probably of sorrow: their past was a secret to the pople of the neighbourhood.

the family bad any reason to on-in danger of arrest. This is one WHAT YOUR EYES TELL ticipate their fate, and the tragedy of the points that is never likely

If your distant vision is clear, came swiftly and unexpectedly. to be cleared up, but what indica-

Everything seems to have beentions there are point in this direc-if you can read continuously with

oot pain or disconfort, if your usual in the rather unusual tion. household. Mrs. Costes ordered It was on Sunday that Mrs. Jeyes never burn, sche, water of

No fire insurance whatever will be efected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately. OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA.

Manager. Hongkong, 12th December, 1921.

STEEL WORKS RESTART. The steel works of the Wizan Coal and Iron Company. Limited, have been restarted after a year's stoppage, and 500 mes will be given immediate employment. HUNTING CHAMOIS WITH MACHINE GUNS. Hualers in Savoy are, itis said, using old German machine-guas to kill chamois This leads to such slaughter that demands are being made for the prohibition of thase weapons.

It may not have been until Sunday that Mr. Coates broke the news to his wife that he was

NEW CABLE. It is reported from Montevideo The house where the tragedy that work will shortly be begun was enacted has at element of one Transatlantic cable mystery about it and is remi-connecting Italy, Spain, and niscent of a Conan Doyle setting. "IPISE TEST FOR THE "SCOUTER."

Brazil with Uruguay.

There is VICTBOLA to wait your -pocket La

thin Xuma, jak for catalogus 5. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. Sole Victor Distributors.

An officer of the boy scouts will in future be called a "couler,” and the form of his initiation will be knowɑ as the Ipise Test (pro- nounced "eepeesy, & Bantu word masning "Whither?"},

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Speaking of Lightweights

BY BLOSSER

YEAH, LITTLE MILO

IS SICK MY MOM SAD IT WUZ BCAUSE HE

ONLY WEIGHED FIVE POUNDS WHEN ME WUZ BORN

16 THAT ALL MILO VIEKHED WHEN HE WVz

BORN ?

THA AINT MUTHIN' »WHEN

I WUZ BORN, I

ONLY VIEIGHED SIX POUNDS

YESSZ

HUM' "THAT'S NUTHIN-MY POD ONLY WEIG WED

THREE POUNDS

AN DID HE LIVE

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