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PACIFIC MAIL

STEAMSHIP COMPANY

MANAGING AGENTS

UNITED STATES SHIPPING" BOARD.

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

FAST NEW AMERICAN STEAMERS TO

SAN FRANCISCO

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, & HONOLULU.

"PRESIDENT LINCOLN "

"PRESIDENT TAFT".

PRESIDENT WILSON"

May 9th at 9 aru. May 23r1.

SAILING & PARES SUB FOT TO DHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE.

LOW FARES TO EUROPE

LOCAL EQUIVALENT OF

£120

£110

FIRST CLASS THROUGHOUT

WITH STOP OVER PRIVILEGES AT PORTS OF CALL"&

VISIT.

POINTS IN UNITED STATES.

SAN FRANCISCO

LOS ANGELES

HALT LAKE

CHICAGO

NEW YORK

I

KONNLUTING WEIM ANY

DIRBT TRANS LONTIN

VISIT

YOSEMITE

GRAND CANYON AND FEATHER RIVER

YELLOWSTONE PARK- STEAMERS.

NIAGARA TALLS,

RAILWAY

ATLANTIC

HONGKONG

"PRESIDENT TAFT"

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PRESIDENT LINCOLN "

MANILA

May 14th. May 28th.

HONGKONG -- CALCUTTA

FREIGHT ONLY

CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE. PENANG & RANGOON.

"LAKE GITANO"

***

May 4th at 5 p.m.

For full information regarding rates, space etc.

APPLY TO:~

PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP GOY.

1st. FLOOR QUEEN'S BUILDING HONGKONG,

Cable Address.

Solano

Tel. Central, 141,

3327.

Canton Agents. Reiss & Co.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,

COPENHAGEN.

Regular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong. Swatow and return.

M.S. "BINTANO "

Expected on or about 17th. May

Will leave for Bangkok

via Swatow

24th. May. Will leave for Bangkok direct, 23rd. May. Subject to change without notice.

S.S. "BANKA......... 19th. May

For further particulars please apply to:-

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN.

The M.S. "CHILE"

will be loading for Gensa. Valencia, Dunkirk, Rotterdam, Amster- dam, Hamburg. Copenhagen & other Scandinavian ports, about

20th. May 1923.

f Expected on or Further Sailings :--

about. M.S. "MALAYA."...... 8th. May M.S." PANAMA...... 10th. June 10th. July S.S." BOLIVIA^`· M.S. AUSTRALIEN" 25th July

25th. August M.S. "JAVA Subject to change without notice.

Will leave for above ports on or about. 18th

1923 Juno 17th July

17th. August 31st. August 30th September

For further particulars please apply to:-

Hongkong, 4th. May, 1923.

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

The NEW EDISON

is the only Phonograph which is

capable of sustaining the test of

direct comparision with living

artists.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

Brunswick

Let Brunswick

Entertain

When visitors come then Brunswick Records bring the greatest artists to sing and play.

Owners of Brunswick Phano- graphs remark how its sweet lone enraptures all who hear it. The secret is in the oval tone chamber, an exclusive Brunswick feature, - Came in.

see and hear for yourself.

Let us Prove the Marit of these Incomparable Machines.

THE BRUNSWICK

STUDIO.

, Ice House Street.

THE STORE OF "

NIKKO

WHICH" CONTAINS THE

VERY BEST EXAMPLES

OF JAPANESE ART, BOTH

ANTIQUE AND MODERN

BAS BEEN REMOVED TO

17. DES VEUX ROAD,

- (NEXT TO FIRE STÁTION)

DO NOT FAIL TO

VISIT

NIKKO

Mrs. SEKAI

MASSAGE

THE PHARMACY ́2nd FLODE. Kɔ. 2, Dudial Street, Hongkong.

Javaresses

SANTAL CAPSULES

The best internal treatment. Specially made in a way that prevents sickness or BRUSCE. Physicians recommend them. From all Chemists.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

AIN'T YOU. GOING

TO MAKE ANY MOVIES

TODAY, AUSTER. FARBANKS? WE

WANTA VUTCH

YOU.

ANY DETURE JUST AWW,

BUT YOU MIGHT RON

OSER THERE- NEYRE

WORKING ON

ONE

FRIDAY, MAY 4: 1923,

THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.

SILIMPOPON COAL

THE undersigned are prepared Lo quote prices for best quality freshly mined Silimpopon Coal, trimmed into Bunkers et Sebattik or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Supplies of cargo lots et favourable rates,

Steamers calling at Sebattik. or Sandakan exclusively for Bunkers are exempt from pay- ment of ordinary Port Charges. The minimum draft of water alongside the Company's Wharf at Sebattik is 26 feet at low wafar Spring Tides. Charts of Cowla Bay (Sabattik Harbour) and any required informatica concerning Port msy be bad on application to

6.10

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &

CO. LTD.

Avents,

The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ld.

ONLY THE BEST

Cigarettes Cigars & Tobaccos

are sold by ma

Rare You Tried

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12 & Queen's Road.

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Sufferers

from Bates. Abscesses. Cicers.

Piles, Glandular SwellinES. Enreda. Boila. Pumples and Traptions. Gout. Keumatism, must realise that the only sure way in complete and lasting reint is to free the blood of de piscana wate malier, the one cause of such troubles. Clarke's Blood Mirture contains ingredients which sun over come and expel purities. that's why KO MANY Lasting cutes stand to its credit.

the

Pleasant to take.

Of all Chemists and Stores,

ketuse SuSTES.

Clarke's

Blood Mixture

"Everybody's Blood Purifier."

Dr. M. E. ASGER,

(DENTAL SURGEON) announces ofce-removal to Top Floor

of the

UNION BUILDING Telephons Central 1392 Hongkong, 1st. March 1923

FOR HAIPHONG AND HOIMOW.

faite for Bengkong and Raigbong:*#*#*«,

Arnaiz Tuesday."

The favourite passenger csakNET HAI-MUN

Bails for Hoshow and Haiphong (Capt. Charles E. Page).

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Resistance for vee with 200 Volts current

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Booklets, Catalogues, Lists of Films Free Application.

ELEPHANT'S FOOT.

$1,50

my three pet nativa banters" Hephant's foot, grilled in the embers, took my coming for granted. was delicious eating, we took a

foot also.

I am

In the evening we watched it bake whole in our camp fire while thoroughly fortifying ourse- Ivea with cocktails in order to do justice to the special at

An Episode of Africa.

This MacWhirter was in charge I was sitting with the District of a British Cotton-growing Asso- Commissioner on the verandah ciation plantation eight miles of his mud house, sufficiently away.

not prepared to cool to go out after pigeon. I swear on oath that he did not had no busineses there, but I had STOW or buy cotton, but I never not seen a white man for three saw him do it. Cotton may have dish. When it appeared weeks and bad trekked over

been the relaxation of his spare | table a strong aroma arose as of for a civilized meal and a talk. moments, but his real mission in

& town whose staple industries were the manufacture of glue and It was A nice bush station, life appeared to be connected with right of the line of the wire. guns and rifles. He was waiting patent fertilizers. However, we and the Amsiekites at headquar-for us all right at the appointed each took a ration of the viscous brown meas on our tin plates, ters were not likely to hear of my place the following evening.

sampled it simultaneously, and self-appointed boliday:

looked at one another. If imagi nation cari conceive a compound of sealing wax, train all, blood, and the essence of cast-off boot soles, that about describes the delicacy.

His orderly appeared outside: "Plenty man from bush want look you, sab!”

"Tell 'em come for here."

A motley group of villegere, for the most part garbed only in wisps of loia cloth, straggled round the corner of the house. Not one of them could speak English so the orderly interpret Their story, boiled down, was this, but it took a long time in the telling.

ed.

į

"The laws of Nigeria decreed that a licence to sboot slephant cost £10 for six months and £20 for a year, but as there was a close season of six months nobody over took a year's licence. Gilbert and Lewis Carroll would have loved

The Commissioner flung his the laws of Nigeris. None of us bad a licence, but the Commis plate out into the night with sioner was the licensing authority, rosy, "Boy! tell cook kill fowl; and we arranged that a licence make chic! n cutleg one time: could be issued to the lucky man, kill tin sardine; and for God's antedated, if and after the eleph-sake, pass more cock-tail!"

ant was shot.

THE FIRST BAC."

If the reader is tempted to go big game shooting with the ides of eating elephant's foot, he is advised to take with him disin- fectants and a cookery-book tell- how it should be prepared-if he can find one-Times contributor.

KRYPTOK LENSES using a doubled-barrelled 450 are the most perfect double focus cordite Express), and I burried in glasses for both reading and the direction of the sound. I found him sitting proudly on the dead elephant, surrounded by hundreds of villagers, who had apparently sprung out of the bush.

They came from a group of scattered bush villages among Before dawn we were zmong which a mad elephant had ap- the farms. We advanced singly peared. He must be mad, because in line, each accompanied by a he was ruining all their yam and native hunter, at about half-mile cassava farms, trampling and root-intervals. the Commissioner in ing up far more than he could eat. the centre. Toward noon I heard And would the honourable and his rifle speak twice (he was much-respected white man come and see about it? They did not mention the fact, but they evident ly knew very well, that the white man most certainly would. The mere mention of big game would have raised the Commissioner from his death-bed. (Incidentally, a wounded beffalo got him in the long grass not long after).

The suppliante were dismissed with instructions to wait for the white man at the central village the following evening, The Commissioner turned to me.

distant. In the ordinary bifocal lens, the segment or part for reading in cemented to the distant lens, raising the segment above the surface of the main lens. The It was rather a poor specimen, segment and the line of anion are with tusks only 311b, and 32ib. | always more or less noticeable. When we cut them out we found In Kryptok lens, no cement is

an abscess the size of turnip used, but the reading segment is at the root of one of them. No electrically fused in a depression wonder the poor besat had been in the main lenɛ, while the whole mad. He must have bad a lens is ground smooth on both monumental toothache.

aides to the desired focus.

"I can get through my court" We gave the carcase to the cases by lunch to-morrow. It is villagers-bush niggers will eat a fifteen-mile trek, and we can do anything, retaining only the

it in the afternoon and be ready tusks, toenails, and the hairs

Kryptok lenses of any prescrip- tion in either regular or Torio form are manufactured by The Hongkong Optical Co. succesEQIN

for dawn the next day. I'll send from the tail as amulets. More to Clark & Co. Optical Prescrip- over for MacWhirter in the morn-over, since we had all read in ing to make a third and get in boys' books of adventure that ele-

No Home complete without poe MOUTRIES Sale" Agents.

Freckles Finds a Real Girl

OH, NOW WE SAO TỪ ACEST LITTLE GIRL IN A MOVIE STUDI0

SHE HAD TH AICEST CURLS!

DIDN'T YOU FIND OUT WHO

SHE WAS?

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