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when the doctor prescribes

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The Rad Bldg Opposita les House St,

PEKING LAMP SHADES

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JUST RECEIVED A CONSIGNMENT

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For the care and preservation of the teeth and gums

to be obtained at---

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Tel. 1877. 14, Queen's Road, Central.

Tel 1877.

THE HONGKONG:

NOTICE.

THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD. SILIMPOPON COAL

THE uudersigned are prepared

to quota prices for best quality freshly mined Silimpopon Cont, trimmed into Bunkers at Sebattik or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Supplies of cargo lots at 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 water Spring Tides. Charts of Cowic | Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any required information concerning the Port tray be had application to

GIBB, LIVINGSTON &

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The Cowie Harbour Coat Co., Leß.

SHOE

REPAIRING

ROYAL & CO. Footwear Specialists. Tek 3237.

1, D'Agular Street, Central

JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE

DISASTER.

HONGKONG RELIEF FUND.

NOTICE.

for

SUBSCRIPTIONS Lists

the above Fund are open at the following places:

Hongkong General Chamber af

Commerce.

OCTOBER

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN.

Regular Freight and Passagers Service for Bangkok.

Hongkong, and return.-'.

Will-leave for Bangkok.

on or about. 26th. October.

Expected on or-about

M.S. "Bintang (2779 tons)

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in port

7th. November

S.S. "Banka "

(1648 tons)

19th. November.

Subject to change without notice.

For further particulars please apply to:-

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.

Agents.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., DTD.

COPENHAGEN.

The M. S. “CHILE'

Further Sailing :- M.S. "Afrika”. M.S. "Malaya M.S. "Annam M.5. "Asia" K.S." Java

.S. "Chile".

6th. December 8th. December

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WORLD'S TOILERS.

How They Hurry to Work in Many Lands.

THE NEW ORDER.

Changes in London Dockland.

Great streams of humanity that! Everywhere in Londen nowa- flow and return to their starting days the hand of change is busy. points for the purposes of It is the same in all those industry, commerce and profess, different Londons which made up ion, writes Traveller" in a Home London's whole-in the Wastend, paper.

in the City, in suburbia. It esta

This is the official description up streets, it devours centuries-old of the morning and evening | landmarks. It lays flat ancient migrations to and from London graveyards and the churches that and the suburbs, which, as stood in them, writes C. Fox recently reported in the Daily Smith in the Daily Chronicle. Chronicle," are detailed in a Blue So, to is it in still another Book on the Census.

London-that The words bring to mind the amphibions London which is the strange, aloof, great streams of the world's London of the seafarer. Here. workers that I have watched in also, change is continually at different countries in the opening work, taking here an old leaning hours of daily toil. Some years galleried building for its prey, ago, in a striking little book call there a light of steps which the ed From the Abyss," a (then) tides havo wetted twice daily rising politician gave some ac-since the time of the Indors. count of the flood of workers to be there an old sail loft, which goes seen every morning crossing the back to the days of the Black- bridges of London into the City. wallers. And now- even The picture was quite true to life Regent-street is passing -so also and depicted with literary power. are Quebec Dock and Canada But one felt that the writer Fond and Centre Pond to pass lacked the milk of human kind-away at the dictate of progress.

He seemed to regard those It is an great matter. perhaps, great tides of man and women the substitution of one large dock like armies of ants appearing out for three smaller ponds of a myriad holes and steaming inconvenient, no doubt, wasteful along towards unknown destin-of space and out of date. It ations, into which they sank like means the disappearance of noth- negligible insects.

ing of any architectural or even historie importance: nothing but

will be loading for Marseilles, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, optional, London, Copenhagen and other

Scandinavian ports, about 5th. November 1923.

Expected on or Will leave homewardboundness

about.

or about. 15th December 5th. January 1924. 15th January 10th. February 9th. March 10th April Subject to change without notice. For further particulars please apply to:-.

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Hongkong, 26: October, 1923.

Agents.

NOTICE

SMALL-POX.

5th. January

4th. FebruaTY 6th. March

THE Sanitary Board hereby

notify the public that in view of the present epidemic of small-pox they are urgently ad- vised to protect themselves by vaccination.

The following is a list of places at which Chinese can receive vaccination free of charge.

HONGKONG.

Civil Hospital, Hospital Road. Tung Wah Hospital, Po Yan Street.

Chinese Public Dispensary at Central District. 3 Aberdeen Street

Chinese Public Dispensary at Western District. 105 Third Street Chinese Public Dispensary at Eastern District. Stone Nullsh

Hongkong & Shanghai Bank-Lane next to District Watch-

ing Corporation.

Chartered Bank of

India

Australia & China. Mercantile Bank of India. International Banking Corpor-

ation. Netherlands Trading Society. Yokohama Specie Bank. Hongkong Club.

Cheques should be made out to the Order of the Japanese Earthquake Disaster Hongkong Relief-Fund.

By Order

D. K. BLAIR,

Secretary, Hongkong Relief Committee. Hongkong 10th September, 1933.

RADIO-MAGNAVOX

Loud

men's quarters.

Chinese Public Dispensary at Shantiwan. 94 Main Street,

| Shaukiwan, West.

KOWLOON.

Government Dispensary. 24 Nathan Road.

Kwong Wah Hospital.

Chinese Public Dispensary at Yaumati. Opposite ferry wharf & typhoon shelter. •

Chinese Public Dispensary at Hunghom. next to Kun Yam Temple.

Chinese Public Dispensary at Kowloon City, in Lung Chau School Kowloon.

Chinese Public Dispensary at Shamshuipo, 41, Yee Kuk Street and at the Government Dispen- saries, Taipo.

J. A. FRASER. Secretary, Sanitary Board.

Speakers and Amplifiers. Batteries, Insulators, 25th. October, 1923. Crystals, Aerial Wires, and all other parts. DE SOUSA & CO., LTD., St George's Bldg, 2nd Floor. Tel. No. Central 1264.

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85

As I have watched these a few wharf sheds and a little hurrying throngs in many parts bridge or two (indifferent ugly in of the world, it was not thus I themselves), a few green

and thought about them, but rather water-worn piles, a few wharves as enormons moving levers by which have been for genera- which the multiplex business of tions of sailormen the first mankind was conducted.

solid ground their unaccustomed

Many readers of these words feet have touched for many are part of these morning streams weary and perilous months, to be encountered in London and a few old bollards to which the big cities. Every morning in their day hundreds of ships they join the huge crowds of have made fast during their brief workers that roll from the great sojournings in harbour, a few railway stations of London, or stretches of dull and littered over the bridges of the Thames, water, which have seen in their or through the main thorough-time some of the fairest and pro- fares of the City. At the same udest ships man ever builded to hour, similar (if smaller) streams serve his neads by sea of human-kind flow through the business arteries of Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, and the mitted a sentimental sigh for many large industrial centres of our national life.

A SIGHT FOR THE PASSING. And yet may not one be per-

their passing? They have a cor- tain quiet comfort. a. "homely In Paris, you can take up your charm of their own, these odd stand on the Quai side and by you nooks and corners of the old rushes, with a merry glance and Surrey Docks, which one misses a tight step, thousands of young somehow in the big modern ones. Parisians who are on their way They are the ship's wayside to, office and shop and warehouse. inns, the others are her modern Down Broadway, in New York, I hotels-magnificent but unhome- at about the same hour, you can like. They are leisurely-seeming ' see an army of busy workers places, when things are not over making hurriedly for their place busy, and when the crews are all of business. They look thorough-ashore in sailor-town."and the ly afert and circumspect, for instevedores' men have finished for the rapid pace of life in America the day, one might fancy the ships the sluggard soon drops out of yarning away among themselves these busy streams of toilers. happily enough of an evening, MORE LEISURELY EAST. and telling all tales of the TDar- In Berlin, during the earlying forties, very likely, for the morning hours,one sacs enormous benent of the lighters and the masses of men and women London barges. thrusting out from the railway They take their memories with" stations and distributing them-them for some of us, these 'un- selves through the main streets distinguished stretches of prison- to the congeries of stores anded river water-memories of old. shops and offices in which the ships with the sea wonder about industry of Berlin struggles on. then, and the sunset glory Along the byways of Venice a upon their spars. They come. bustling movement of workers is still from time to time, the old to be observed, and they glide windjammers, working out their over the Rialto to disappear down last years in alien bondage who the mysterious entrances that once were queens of the sea. But fill the traveller with insatiable they are few and far between. curiosity,

Soon, perhaps the last will be The East is like to the West ingone, and a new generation of these morning streams of toilers, ships will know Centre Pond no but the hour is earlier and the more.

FAMILY TALENT.

pace more leisurely. Bombay. Port Said, Cairo, and countless other places, present the same An interesting example of here- features.

ditary adroitness with the pen is As George Meredith said, the provided by the appearance of a poetry of mortals is their daily history of the 30th Hussars in the prose and in the morning hours | Great War, written by Major J. they begin each day a fresh com- C. Darling. Major Darling is the merce with their fellows. Their son of the famous judge, who, skins vary in colour and. their apart from providing other writers speech may have nothing in com- with a good many writticisms, bas mon, but they inherit a common written some pleasant things both life of toil. And the morning in prose and in verse, and is the steames of the world are the acknowledged poet of the Bench signs of its energy;

at the present time.

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