SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916
810 8 532M SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
-ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT"
TO
MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
TAXING PAMUNDURE AND CARGO TO
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, “¿0"
Steamers
a to Colombo
Leave Hongkong » Noon
Connecting Mall Steamer from Colombo,
Due
Duo Marsellfos London
1916.
1917.
1917.
MALTA
Dec.
1
j
NANKIN
Dee, 13
* MALWA
Through
Dec. 91
Steamer
NOVARA
Deo, 29
* MOÖLTAN
SOMALI
Jan 13
* KASHGAR
NYANZA
"MALTA
Jan. 96 Feb.
Through
• MOREA
Jan, 17 Jan. 23 Fab. 12 Steamer Feb, 25
Mar.
* Passengers change Steamers at OOLOMBO,
THE CHINA MAIL.
TOO MUCH TALK ABOUT BEING WRIGHT AEROPLANES.
INDISPENSABLE.
| PLAIN SPEAKING BY MR. DONALD- MACLEAN, M.P
The following interesting" cxcerpta are made from a report of recent pro- Fcedures before the Tribunala in London
being claims for exemption from
PATEST RIGHTS PRESENTED TO
BRITISH NATION.
Mr Orville Wright, whose name is enduringly linked with pionest work for aviation and the triumph of the sero plane has made a notable gift of patent rights to the British.
It is a timely
which should
ect of gestation. impart an impotas toy the aircraft in-
dustry.
English
military service [In appealing for the axemption of the
For the concession comes about is general manager tmpacts to explained by Mr Griffith Brower... Ficture Collseams, Limited, at the managing director of the British Weight House of Commons Appeals Tribunal Co. Ltd, in a letter to the Aeroplane yesterday. Mr Leonard Wells stated that, 14 years monopoly expires in fout of it men employed by the Arm,Dext, and with the consent of Mr WrioNA i
will not company applications for the exemption of only
apply for an so every manufacturer in two were made. If these were not extension, granted, it would mean the closing of England will be free to manufacture numerous picture palaces, and the throw without payment of
way royalty" ing out of work of a large number of Prior to the war steps were taken to
humor obtain
fish recognition of the work Jan. 7 penald Maclean, M.P. (Chairman): done by Messrs Wright Brothers; and Jan. 23 You are no doubt saying what you are claim for 295,000 against the War Office Feb. 4 instructed to my, but we don't believe for infringement of patent was later
work of it.
settled by £13,000 Being accepted for the Feb. 19
Mr Wells: We have tried five differ, past, prosent, and fatures of the Mar. 11ent men as managers,, |
and
no patent on all Government mad | they are nớ Mar. 18 good.
This left the company with the patent The Chairme We hear rather too rights for sporting use and for mana- much about the indispensable nature of facture for export to foreign countries; men's services. The country wants men, but, recognition having been secured, no application has been made to any manu at all whether picture paisces, or taxes, facturer for royalty, leaving the industry or contracts exist. It does not matter what taxes are contributed by businesses if the men are wanted, they must go.
Acesmmedation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely resarred in and, if we lose the war, it won't matter
Hongkong at the time of Booking.
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangable with Orient Line..
SAILINGS. DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
8. 9.
WANKIN
NOVARA
·BOMALI
·NYANZA
· MALTA
TRAVELLER'S VALUE.
In the course of an application, which was dismissed, for a commercial travellor, at the same court, the chairman said to the solicitor: "You must think we are greater fools than we look if you expect a to be eve that £700 or £500 is to be lost to any firm because a particular 28th November.traveller joins the Army. We have Heard
too much of this sort of thing."
BOXER'S 'DISFITE.
Leava Hongkong About
SUNDAY,
TUESDAY, SUNDAY,
» SUNDAY, SUNDAY,
5th December, 17th December.
31st December. 14th January.
Passongura misy travol by Railway in Japan between Parts of Cair free of chwgom Estara Tickets are available by Messageries Maritimes Company.
INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS
(Non- Transhipment) IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS,
WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, Calling at SINGAPORE, PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG, COLOMBO
AND PORT SAID.
CARRYING 18% AND UND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.
ŠTRIMERA.
PROPOSED SAILINGS:
Lesta E'xoxo about
LOATA
B'TOB About
Due st M'STILLES If calling About
Due LONDON about
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans, free of charge and osch Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.
Pamate Tickets Interchangeable with the British India Co. Round-the-World Tickets and Through Tickets to New York la connection with the "Tektoipal Mail Lines
Return Tickets a fare ang still comilalie to Europe for Two Years; or to Intermediate Porta for Six Months.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be cancelled #altered without notice.
..
For Further Information, Passage Fares; Freights, Handbooks, sto, apply to
E. V. D. PARR,
Acting Superintendent."
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO., LTD.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS,
S.S: CHINA
WILL SAIL FROM HONGKONG - FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
--VIA BHANGĦAL, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU,
JAN 27. APRIL 11- JUNE 28.
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVIOS AZ INTERMEDIATE BATES.
Freight and Passenger Ageni,
Ice House Sizerk
O. H. RITTER,
Prince's Buildings,
INDIAN
IAN AFRICAN LINE
Cargo carried on through Bill of Lading from HONGKONG BELKA DELAGOA BAT, DURBAN (Natal), EAST LONDON, PORT ELIZABETH and CAPE TOWN with transhipment at COLOMEO to Stenters of the INDIAN AFRICAN LINE.
FROM HORGONG:
PROFUSED SAILING. Connecting with
FROM COLOME
EKCRÉLERS ACCOMMODATION FOR 12 and 2nd Class Passnigans.!
ORIENTAL
AFRICAN LINE.
Regalar Direct Bervice from JAPAN, CHINA and STRAUS to BEIRL,
undisturbed
machines.
how Mr Brewer describes the gift, adding Practically his life's" work" that is
May the British nation use it for the extinction of those exponents of Kultur who are dropping the embleme on these shores."
EARLY MARRIAGES.
RECORD SET UP IN SCOTLAND LAST YEAR.
When Charles E. ("Johnny Hughes the well-known pugilist, appealed at St Pancras, several members expressed sur- prins that so distinguished a fighting man had been passed only for labour. There were more marriages-in-Scot- abroad. Hughes, however, skewed cer- land last year, in proportion to popula tain injuries sustained in past contestation, than in any year since 1856. The which disqualified him for active mi total was over 38,200, and a feature of tary service. Three months' exemption the ceremonies was the youth of many
was granted on domestic grounds.
EFFECT OF REJECTION.
"When a man is rejected he begins to
think, 'Hallo! I must look after my health said the military_representa tive at Spring Gardens, when a ma formerly rejected and now classed for service, complained of the discrepancy.
и Не gives ap amoring and drinking," the officer added and suddenly gets a shock when he finds he has pulled him- salf together."
Re-examination of the appellant was
ordered,
LONDON DURING WAR.
of the contracting parties.
were boyr of sixteen.
50
200 it 695.
14
:*1,346
20
Boventeen. eighteen.
+9 19 nineteen.
twenty.
In all 2,186 were married before the age of 21. There were 6,730 brides of less than 21.
""
11 married at Afteen
102
549
1,328
2,19 2,623
sixteen.
EP...
eighteen
seventeen
nineteen twenty
In both cases records were set up says
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* OF FITED DEFORES :
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EMPTY CHURCHES.
J. CAMPBELL'S VIEW OF
THE REASONS.
War-introduces so many disturbing factors into vital statistics, that Dr. Hamer's annual report on the health of London is necessarily full of reserves, remarks a London paper. Some of the broader facts, however tell their own talo-auch that there were dearly. 7,000 fewer births in London in 1918 REV. than in 1914 buy over 10,000 mara mariages. The bigher marringe-rate was almost entirely due to war-weddings; and, allowing for a high percentage of In a letter to the editor of the such weddings between couples act "Nation" the. Rev. R. J. Campbell normally residant in London and a replies to a recent article in that paper further percentage of war-bride grooms
"Oar Empty Churches." who will not return from the war, suggest that the Church is a kind of Practically speaking, he says, "yon there seems little ground for hoping anachronism, out of touch with the mind that the increased marriage rate wil of the aze and therefore doomed to compensate for the diminished birth rate perish. The Zeitgeist is against her, in the long run. The war will un- and therefore she must fail But when doubtedly be seen in future to have you go porsuada either ourselves or others go on to afirm that it is useless to imposed a serious check on the growth than the religion of any past century of the British population; though it is the second, or the thirteenth, or the six possible that in most of the other teenth, or the nineteenth can be
that belligerent countries an even more of OWN
doubtful time, you are on doubtful serious check will be recorded ground. Another growth which is being checked. it
conceivable that in the
try to
not
at present is that of houses to put main the Church may be right and that the population in The construction the Zeitgeist may be wrong!
"It is not what people are required to of new dwellings, accept under the Ministry of Munitions, is at a standstill church but the fast that for the time believe that keeps them away from Dr. Hamer points out that this has being t they are indifferent to the religious. practically arrested for the time being life, and to religions sanctime for the the migration of Londoners to the duties they perform the very concen suburban areas; and, together with the tion of which duties they have learned But I thoroughly shifting of population in connection
age with you. with munition-work, it is giving rise to omnes (the supreme good to which we benam summam quo tendimus serious problems.
All tend) would alone prevent it."
from
В
Hongkong, Nov 6, 1370,
NAGARANT NEWCHWANG New Yoir-
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EDERLANDSCHIE
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