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CANTON, Seph 26 MINERS ENTERPRI On Monday the 28th inst, an informal opening of the fine now fromises of that
NATIONALISE RAILWAYS ?
The upheaval in the rallway world ab Home has mised acutely the problem of the nationalisation of the railways.
If the strifo Bad been continued on the reale which it reached on Saturday there could have been only one remedy for
THURSDAY, SEPTE
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THEI TRE
SHORT SEASON ONLY. STARTING
MITSUBISHI GOSHI KWAISHA most enterprising corporation the British the public, and that must have here for WEDNESDAY, October 4.
(MITSUBISHI CO.)
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the Government to supersede the com- panies, at least temporarily, and taką upoz themselves the task of settling the dis TOUR OF THE WORLD |00AL DEPARTMENT.tended to their antall wants. Mr CR-puter the Weilminster
Thomas, the architect, who is to be con-
SOLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA-gratulated upon, the arcation of such a "SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, YO- handsaine building, was most attentive in SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, | showing visitors over the premises. NAMAKŪTA, SAYO, SHINNEW
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The majority of the Chinese craft word alsoshowing their respect to the memory of the deceased “*1.6.” by half-masting their
faga.
There is already a good dent of im-'
patience among milway shareholders about the multiplication of Boards of Directors, many of them with little or no business qualification, for the nominal direction of lines which are really under the kontrol of for managers. A great rallway strike may very well turn out to be dissater for labour, but it will also be the débácie of this antiquated system."
THE GREAT
28, 1911.
Intimations.
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THE DEATH OF SIA ZÖSENT HÂRT.
The sonipanies cannot have it both Or the 25th fast, the day of the funeral ways," says the Nation. **They havo failed of the late Sir Robe Hart, all the Con.pparently as employers to dealing with the mulate Bags were half-masted." The follow.labour problem. If they come to the State to relieve thom of their burdens, ing war craft wore
the harbour and were
they must be ready at the same time Į all dying their ensigne at half-mast:-The
to surrender the privileges. It in-as British gunboats, Moorhen and Sandpiper well that the directors and managers the German gunboat Tsingtan, the should realise that this is the end towards Froach gunboat Vigilante and the Japanese which they are steering when they rely gunboat Ugi...
on the intervention of the State on their behalf. The only people who
JAVO CALED to rejoke are in fact the advocates of the nationalisation of railways." But though Da general we recognise that there is on grounds" something to be said for nation. For indiscriminate and unconventional afsition, we cannot rejoice that it should navigation, Cantem_Harbour between tag | ba advanced by these means.” hours of 5.30 6.m. and 7.50 ... is not to be beaten. In addition to the seamingly aunless wanderings of innumerable craft of belong to them," whites Prof. Hobbotton every shape and size, the occupants of avery in the Manchester Guardian. If they other boat appear to be engaged in a wordy cannot maintain their railway system in warfare with their nearest neighbours, and operation they will have to see-it-pas-cut TRIMMED HATS ...at_85.00 cach having once heard an altercation between of their hands. Indeed, there would seem rival mumbers of the female portion of a
CASTON HABROVÉ.
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privilege if they fail in the duties that MONDAY, OCTOBER 2ND, 1011o
to be only two alternatives as to railway
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Canton boat's crew, the result can be management compatible either with justies imagined, when the same is multiplied to the men or with the security and por-
hundred-fold
it is in the manence of the railway traffic. One la to leb stress of the early morning traffic. If the the man protect themselves in the ordinary abeye constituted the sun total of the way by recognising the unions, the other' matutinal cuphony, all would be well, but is to bring the railways under public con- it.by not on, for during the period above trol. If the railway man is to be refused referred to at least two hundred launches the rights of combination on the ground up and down the river of the Shameen that he is a public servant, then he must nd every one of these launches, without frankly and fairly be placed in the position exception, is furnished with a stoani whistio of a public servant. In a word, the goal thint would do credit to an ocean liner.unwittingly are heading is nationalisation. towards which the railway directors all
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Douglas Stanah 989 Company, Limited, will be held at the Company's Offices on TUESDAY, the 10th day of October, 1911, at 12 o'clock, Noon, when the subjoined resolution which was passed at the Extraordinary General Meet- ing of the Company held on the 23rd day of September, 111, will be submitted for confirmation s a special resolution :-
That Art. 18 (3) of the Company's of Association be altered by substituting the sum of 350,000 for
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the sum of $25,000 in line two.
·
Dated the 28th day of September, 1011. The coxswain of every launch has one pot The alternative is simply recognition.'
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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co..
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CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED.
Puzzling though the case of railways
(FOR 15 DAYS ONLY). Regardless of Cost to lear.
M. Gains, PRINCES' BUILDIYOS. .--
Hongkong Sept. 23, 1911.
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SIXTY-FIVE DEBENTURES of the THE TWENTIETH DRAWING of HONGONG CLUB (1896 issue, $100.00 each) was held in the HONGKONG CLE HOUSE on THURSDAY, the 14th Septemba, when the following Debentures were drawn for Bodemption:
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hobby, and that hobby is to how his whistle
25 possible, aa often
By the Spectator, for the right of à fair average for one launch is one blast, workmen to get the best terms they can has et icant one whistle for every second, (the to be reconciled with the right of the public blast is left for the badaniaz), Multiply to exist-the difficulties would be immes- the approximate number of launches by a humbly groster under a system of State NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
stabla number of whistles and uno canonership. Imagine all the railwaymen and he payable at the Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation en SATUR HE THIRTIETH ORDINARY obtain a very fair idea of pandemonium State servants with votesready to be turned DAY, the 30th September, 1911, in
BIEETING of Shareholders will ba held at the Offices of the undersigned on personified. The writer has no hoaltation against the Government which thwarted exchange for surrender of same. THURSDAY, the 19th proximo, at Noon.in mying that in no other port in the world them! Is it to be supposed that a Govern.
By Order, The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Com- pany will be CLOSED from the 5th is such a thing possible no obtains atment which consciously depended on to the 19th proximo, both days inclusive.
Canton with regard to the abuse of the popular vote would find it easy to do its JARDINE, MATHESON & Co. L steam whistle and the steam hooter.
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A Laxon KasURIMENT OF
It is authoritatively stated that yet made in Germany to celebrate in worthy Great preparations are already being another invention with the gyroscope as its manner the centenary of the lath of Wag- CURIOS PORCELAIN, JADESTONE main feature is about to be introduced intoner in 1913. That is also the your of the the British Navy. Things are still in the centenary of the birth of Wagner's great
experimental stage, and for this reason, to say nothing of the fact that the invention is
contemporary Verdi, an gyent which will likewise be celebrated with due honour.
protoctod by a paten, only meagre infor [mation on the subject is obtainable. This
The total length of the railroad in uso much can bu safaly said, however. The of the Siberian Railway amounts to 3,131 instrument is a gyroscopic torpedo director vests. During the your 1910 there have which is intended to supersede the boen transported. 3,468,000 - passengers, aro-director at present used for direct 9,127,000 peods of luggage and goods by ing the course of a torpedo fred express trains, 202,570,000 poxxis of goods from ship or torpede craft. It is the of goods for the requirements of railways. by ordinary trains, and 105,305,000 poods
The approximate receipts were 33,836,806 roubles, of which 8,027,770 roubles were
vention of an officer now serving on bond the Verpon, the torpedo establishment at
Portsmouth, and there is little doubt that for pasonger fraffic, 25,104,886 roubler for when perfepted it will make the torpedora goode traffic, and 5,203,951 roubles for much more dangerous instrument of war sundries. The expenses during the year thin it is to-day. Export opinion 1910 amounted to. 33,358,317 roubles, divided as to the degree of utility of the torpedo, but it is certain that will take an evor-incrossing part in naval warfare, ending of the Siberian Hallway during 1910 that not maraly in close quarter conflicts as amounted to 4:677,289 roubim, as compar hitherto, It is a curious coinsidepoe thated with 3,219,543 roubles in 1,009.
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