MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1918.
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
-- ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
TO
SCOTTISH LETTER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
(From Our Own Correspondenti)
Episarzen, April 22. THE POTATO WAR
The ruin halleth on the just
„A SLUMP IN TUOMAS CARLYLE While the war has brought us in creased demand for the British classic litècuture of Scott, Dickens, Thackery, und Tennyson, there is no increase in the sale of the writings of Thoras Carlyk. It is suggested
INTIMATIONS
that this is as revolt against the MITSUBISHI SHOJI
d philosophy prehimed in. Carlyle's"
the unjust, and the inces of intre! Preslerick the Great. Be that as do not take sides, even in a right;ous week in the Chelsea newspaper. it may, Carlyle is pillorien week by
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, . The potato has saved her which feels it to be a retrospective
'
TAKING PASSENGERS AND CARGO TO STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, KOYFT,' &c.
Steamers
Leare
Due Hongkong A
London Noon
1917.
Colorato
Connecting Mail
Due Marseilles 1917,
Steamer from Colombo.
When Passengers change Steamery at COLOMBO]
Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved it without the potato the Germans
Hongkong at the time of Booking.
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
Pang
'S. B
Lears Hongkong About
may travel by Railwayin Japan between Ports of Oil tres of charge. Recen Tickets are available by Messageries Maritimes Company,
Non-
KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co.) COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS and EXPORTS.
mang from starvation in the host two and enduring disgrter that this philo {ours; it has helped this country in sopher from Feciofechan ever eats
lished huself as a householder and the present year; and the Frime
ratepayer by the banks of the Minister has just reminded us of the Thames.".
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF necessity of a large intense in the
AMERICANS, AND THE MARLANDS.
TAKASHIMA, OCSI, MUTAKE assistance it can give us in the anxie-
KISHIDAKE TOSHINOTANI, The Americans who have settled tion of nest winter. We do not yet down temporarily "somewhere in the
KOJO,NAMAZUTA, SAYO, KANADA, owe it the debt which our eneres Highlands are interesting them-NW, KAMIYAMADA, BIBAL, lo, for there can be little doubt that selves greatly in what they all tha and OYUBARI COAL MINES.
interule of their wir, work, they find
land of their ancestors." In the AGENT FOR SAKITO COAL would kong ago have been driven to time to ponder ovet its antiquities f esk for terms, and is accept sung and folk-lore. Its rather chrisva
Head Office:-TOKYO, terms which the Allies wished to that the Americans, like the Cana- impose. The German, newspapers lians, sen to know more about Scat-
dian, New Zealanders, unt Austra Branches and have long nicknamed the potato the land than does the average English: "maki of all work"; it forms not pan. It may be meallel that the fonly a, large part of their staple food. I post Swinbume, when he visited but it also supplies the jack of wine Rosshire, even associated in his poem their raw materials, and is found, on Foel Maree the ruins of cafters for example, in some kindst of rubber "Evidently he imagined they were
witly vanished tribes, substitutes. The demands upon it relies of the Stone or Brenze gr have been
g great shat there has
„OF THE TIMES, long been a potato ration, and the supply available for domestic con-
INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS Transhipment). si-tion has had th be rhed out
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 IT AND 2ND SALDON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.
STEAMERS.
PROPOSED SAKLINGS:
LASTO EXONG about
Тента S'toke abeat
Duo st M'SEILLES
If calling about
Due LONDON
boat
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.
·WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ONʼALE STEAMERS.
All Cabins ara fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with na Electric Reading Lamp.
Round the World Tickets and Through fickets to New York in connection with the Principal Mail Lines.
Return Tickets at fare and a half available to Europe for Two Years; or to "Intermediate Forts for Six Months.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be
macelled or altered without notice.
til
lens delectable vegetables, especially turnips and kolabi. The turnip my, indeed, claim to share with the potato the credit for dis- endit) of having enabled Germany to bold out against the blockade, and to survive the diversion of so much labour from agriculture.
The potato has not always been wit in such high esteet. It has had its enemies, and scared at gue the turnished its fair fame. In the 16th and 17th centuries it was be dever to have an evil effect, not so mich belily as mental or, spiritual, and cue, or John Galt's nuveleicon- fame a reference to this superstition. In Scotland its introduction' was reported as an attempt to rob the people of the mea! which was their tural sustenance, and a Highland Chiel had to convert sore of his Consigneçe are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents clansmen hy the arguinient of im. regarding arrival of consignments expect 1 of which they have received documentaprisonment. A shortage of meat had an even greater missionary influence tuan the rough and ready methods of the Chief. The potato has ous lived these prejudices, but it still meat" the responsibility for some of shares with the Celtic tempers
the qualities attributed to the people of Ireland, who have certainly re ceived no impetus to industry from the facility with which the dear praties are cultivated.
or advice.
V
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees sad the Company's Surveyors, Messrs Goddard and Douglas, at 10 a. m. en Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be moognised. No Claims will <be admitted after the goods hays left the Godowns.
For Further Information, Fasags Farca, Fraights, Handbooks, Daton of Sallings
P. L. KNIGHT,
Acting Superintendent.
sts., apply to.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
(JAPAN MAIL S.S. CO)
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
DESTINATION
Sailing Dates
SHAKER & DISPLACEMENT
Shanghai, Kobe & Sada Mara, 12,500 tons TUES, ssh July, 11
Yokohama
*Kawachi Maru,
Nagasaki, Kobe & A Mars,
Yokohama (*Tango Maru, Shanghai, Moji &
Kobe
12,500 tons FBL, 19th July, 11 .. 12,500 tons SAT., 20th July, 11a.m. 13,500 tons SAT 17th Aug. 11.m.
London or Liverpool via S'pore, Colombo, Delagoa Bay & Cape Town Melbourne via Manila Zamboanga, Thursday Is., Townsville, Brisbane, & Sydney
New York via Shanghai, Kobe. Yokohama, San Francisco & Panama Canal
Bombay via Singapore, Malacca,
& Colombo
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang. &
Rangoon
Omitting Shanghai and/or Moji
FOR DATES OF SAILING APPLY AT THE COMPANY'S
OFFICE,
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HONGKONG VICTORIA B.C. SEATTLE
VIA
Manila, Keelung, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokkaichi, Shimidzu & Yokohama.
Optected by the magnificient and splendidly equipped Passenger Steamers Fushimi Marn," "Suwa Maru,” Kashima Maru" and "Katori Marú, each of over 20,000 tons displacement,
Next sailing from Hongkong:
* Katori Maru, FRIDAY.
19th July, Suwa Mazu, WEDNESDAY, 14th August, at 11 am. Omitting Manila Eastbound
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B. MORI denta
FIFTY A NO CAST DOON. I'm here wherever they want me.
I'm no' just what I was;
But I ken o naething to daunt me So I'm here whenever they want me
Beudy to fecht for the Cause.
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I'm wearin' on to Elty,
An' I'm shauchly at the knees; An' my feet are kia'o' shifts, For I'm wearia' on to fifty;
An' I've got an awfu' wheeze.
The spirit is uroo willin',
An' the flesh is no' sue bad; If tau chest got a wee bit fllin', The spirit's anco willin'---
Och, faith, but I'm the lad..
So I'm here whenever they want me.
I'm a tousy kin' of a tyke, An' I ken o' naething to daunt me, So I'm here whenever they want
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In waves upon the sky As the field,nar brothers,
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"The war has left many of our golf For Particulars, apply t courses ahnost devoid of players. However, by way of having a game of some sort, it is pleasing to read of an East Coast club holding a whist drive in the "tes." house, We take it that ghubs "wak? be trump. danes, which, of epuise, would deve- This was followed by a Ilop into a golf Full, and perchance
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foursomes in the adjoining bunkers.. "sand" dance by a few straying
MISCELLANEA.
Mar deer forest, belonging to the, Duchess of Fife, has been let for sheep grazing purposes.
The American Red Cross have arranged to erect a nonument, in Islay in nemery, of the American torpedoing of the Tunain, and whe soldiers who lost their lives by the
were buried in .be island. It will be erected on the Mull of Ca, a com manding position on Islay, and will be seen by all vessels passing to and from America.
The United Free Record states that there was the largest entry yet ob tained for the annual examination of. the Subbath school children in the history of the Church, and adds.
There can be no marks awarded to our Shetland scholam, since the Ger
an submarine sent their papers to the bottom of the sco.
*
Highland newspapers report that the old-titne flint and steel for light. ing purposes has again came into use, on account of the match scarcity. For tinder, brown paper impregnated with saltpetre is used, also "apong,.. a fungus that grows on the roots of birch trees.
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Chairman 8. H. Dodwell, Eat. E. V.D. Parr, Esq. G.B. Gabbey, Raqs. A. Plummer, Esq Hon. Mr.
D. Landala, Hot, Mr. E. Shellim,
W. L. Fattenden, Esq.
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MANAGER:
The Hague
Brische a
HEAD AGENCY-BATAVIA
Branches
BANDENKICARER.""" BAMBOON, BAYDORES,
CALATION,
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MEDAN,
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LONDON BANKKES-LONDON COURT AND PEKALONGAM,
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Dupontgai (
Or Fix
For 3 months.
+ 13
per cent per agram.
"
Chiet Manager.
N. J. STABB,
Hongkong, March 13, 1918.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.
E business of the shore Bank is conducted by the HONGKONG
AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR
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Correspondents at Bombay, Collec Saigon, Haiphong Hanoi, Amoy, Yoko Madras, Pondicherry, Calcutta, Bangkok hama, Bobe, Melbourne, Bydney, New York, Ban Francison, do..., &c.
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METALS
of all kinds, expecially for shipbuilding Frames 45,000,000 and engineering workar Largest and 29,500,000 best assorted stock in the Colony.
"
(1/3 at the Capital, ka.. Frauen 15,000,000. thecribed by the Government of
the Chiness, Republic),
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INTEREST on deposits is allowed on
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PER CENT per annum. Depositors
BARK, LTD.
ELID 1882
*** €4,000,000.00.
23,100,000,00
may transfer at their option halances of AUTHORIZED CAPITAL.Tem 48,000,090,90% $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND FAID OF GARITAT SHANGKAI BANK to be placed on
FIXED DEPOSIT et 4 PER CENT. per annum.
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For the Hongkong and Bhángha.
Banking Corporation." KUN, J. STABB,
Chlef Manager.
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