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PAY, NOVEMBER 27–1918.
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
· UNDER ¦ CONTRACT WITH HIS. MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOME CURIOUS TAXES.
STRANGE PLANE FOR RAWING
RETENUE.
bie of the "Aők, “abá that the
#charing (been taken?in "unler
to erect a lasting monument of thei
news in every hearths in the kingha Eight years later, 20- fortunately, the monument on the hearth
The net of taxation is now so widely was obscured by the shadow of the My- preail than for new and prodtable gatherer at the window on the sam
Forral. When the tax was in "force cources of revenus can be suggested oven |
people sought to evade it in every pos by the most expert volunteer. In the aldaible way, and even d
even demolished their Idays he hit a far greater chance. Many chimneys in order to obtain a reduction
MARSEILLES AND LONDON, suggestions were then all be of the charge. The window tax was quite
Tarmo Passengers am Cargo TO
STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &c.
Steamers
Leave
to
Colombo
Hongkong Noor
Connecting Mail Steamer troms Colombo,
Doe Marsailles
Duo London
-
When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO *Accmmodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved
Hongkong at the time of Booking
On the Australian Reute Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
SAILINGS DIRECT TO
SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND
8. &
YOKOHAMA.
Leave Hongkong About
Passedgara may travel by Railway in Japan between Ports of Call, free of charge.
Transhipment),
INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS (Non-
IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL. STEAMERS,
WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
fore Chancellors of the Exchequer and as unpopular, and was even more oper were adopted by theru. Osem locked when the time for the assessor's to evasion. Windows were completely regarded, as so fantastic, that they visit came road, and were opened again Pbrushed aside with sunt ceremony, as soon as he had made his assessment. There is one of the latter, howover, that, This procedure was net by a provision had"), came into its on lace, the war by which a penalty of 20%. was imposed. began, The entertainments as of the for every window opened without
Luotien to the aurregon Disputen fre present day was anticipated oven. 150 years ago by the inventive penis whostly are as to what was and what was not a window. Widow." accordi prepower that all phars of publie diver Hing to the dictionary upon which the in, including playhouses, opens, mas judge relied, was denied from wind querades, Baarlagh, Vauxhall Sadler's door," us signified any aperture in a Wells, and Astley the famous otsailding by which light and air ure - for the "fair and the fashionable . biomitted. A hole made for additional ventilation was held to be a " window 4 day-chisild be taset. Another proposal within the meaning of the Act, and so, was that the very statues in the galens too, was a hole through which coals were shot into a cellar. One hopellans was up the ines and the graves, the grot tous and the temples of those days were with hon bara to it, although so tittle Tassessed in respect of a cellar granting thick-set with statues of heathen
light was intromitted" that it was and goddesses-shoo'd have a price pai, necessary to use a candle in order to jpon their Hendy. In addition s the see. In yet another case a man who, sifggestions of the volunteer "fameters under the advice of a distinguished sani. the Chudigelar of the Exchequer has tary reformer, had placed in the wall many fingir-pests put up in past times his house four perforated zinc plates with the object of ventilating his pantry wis to guide him on his fiscal path. Time held to have opened four additional win- was when taxes were put on the matches dows. The tax was repealed in 1851. attached to the seals that dangled from the fobs of the beaux or "hage on the girdles that wireled the waists of the Fulles. Those who owned clocks were
Qalling at SINGAPORE, FORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG," Cczomzo¦ulso"requded es fit sobļkets for special.
! " AND PORT SAID,
MARRYING ise asND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RITES.
STEAMERS.
Pzorosan BanINAH 1
Loara HXONG about
LOSTE S'POEZ about
Dug at M'UELLES
f liag
Date LANDOY about
THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPURARILY SUSPENDED.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
All Catias are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.
Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be -cancelled or altered without notice
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
Consignoca are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents
· regarding arrival of consignments expected of which they have received documenta or advice:
Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors. Masses Godu-rd and Douglas, at 10am on Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be prunend within ten days of the teamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claima will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
For Further Information, Fassage Fares, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sallings to. apply to
‚E. V. D. PÄRR.
Buperintendent.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
(JAPAN MAIL 8.S. 00).
BAILINGS FROM HONGHONG BUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
DESTINATION
taxation. The peng Tax-the tax a lupaschalter hard 5* pag for every person in his household, who wore a pig- tail and covered his hair with ¡zumder-- bad its day and posed away. So, tos, Chad a tax on soep-the impost that gave Lord North his nick-name of "Old
| Semprids,asd" a tux ou sals. Gloves and nattens were once taxed, and so also were scores of other articles and the sh
shops
Hin which they were sold. A duży was at one tine levied on bricks, but by some furious process suffered a change into a|
tax on publicmas.
IMPOSTS, FANTÁSTIC AND UNPOPULAR Undoubtedly the most comprehensive scheme of taxation ever,devised was that which drew within the net all bachelors
everybody in whose house a lith. death, or a marriage took place, On
the burial of a duke the Stata drew-150 43. on that
ol duktman 4s. The burial of a duke's Brat son cost the father £30 in the case of a person of the lowest degree the pounds disappeared and only shillings were paid. To marry st a duke is. 6d. less than to be buried. The eule for the peerage in regard (o) births, and marriages deacenied by ro inny pounds with cach descent in ranà, An archbishop paid at the same rate a dake a bishop was regarded as the egral of a barna. If he remained single s dėko SAILING DATES
Lad to forfeit £1 11s. The eldest son Shanghai, Kobe & Tamba Maru, 12,610 tons BAT., 7th Dec, 11 am.
Yokohama
of a. duke paid £3 pets in similar circapi 19,410 tons SUN, 8th Dec, 11 8.2
stances. An esquire who declined to Nagasaki, Kobe Nikko Maru 9,500 tons BAT., 14th Dec, 11 am.hing the matrimonial "nose round his
Yokohama
*Kitano Maru, 15,980 tons SAT, 18th Jan, I am, neck paid £1 C., but aimple gentle
man was charged only s The rate for those of "meaner estate was, shilling. Even a tax on tembstones was once pro posed as a tax that could meet with sa objection. Sheridan, the actor member, replied that the only reason why the proposed tax could not be objected to
Shanghai, Moji &
Kobe
"Kamakura Maru,
Tama Mam,
7,000 tons FRI, 29th Nov. Bombay Mara, 9,950 tons SUN, 1st Dec.
Liverpool via Spore, Penang Kaga Maru,
12,300 tons..”.
Colombo, Delagon Bay & WEDNES., 18th Das, at ilibak Cape Town
43
Melbourne via Manila Zam-Tango Mara,
boanga, Thursday Is., Towns
ville, Brisbane, & Sydney
New York via Shanghai, Kobe,
Yokohama San Francisco
& Panama Canal
13,760 tons. WEDNES., 18th Deo. at 11a.m.
Bombay via Singapore, Malacca, Hosoku Maru,
& Colombo
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang
Rangoon
• § Omitting Shanghai, and/or Moji
2,000 tons
BEL, 24th Nov.
(Toyooka "Marn, 15,210 tons
DANN SATUR., 7th Dec, Yeboahi Mars, 8,800 tons
TUES, 10th Dec, ̈ ̈
+ Wireless Teleg
If the day looks kind a gloomy And your ritances kind a slim; If the situation's puzzling And the prospect's awful grie And the perlexities keep, crossin' Till all the hope is acarly gone: Just hustle up and grit your teeth,. And keep okrepin, on."
The inner side of exery cloud I bright and shining:
I therefore túra my cloads about And always wear them inside out,
To show the lining."
INTIMATIONS
ERECTOR.
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Miniature of the
MECHANICAL WORLD
ou will never grow tired of making Erector Models because it's the most FASCINATING TOY
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gkong.
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SAVARESSES
SANTALY CAPSULES
was becanting those oil of whose propis FRENCH LESSONS
It would be paid would know nothing o the matter, as they must be dead belcro the demand could be made; but then, after all, he added, who knows that in might not be rendered unpopular by being representadas e tax upon persons who, having paid the debt of mature, must prove that they had done by having the receipt engraved upon their tombstones?
The match tax, the tax that Tone, copying the example of the United States, proposed in 1871, the tax that was so unpopular that it had to be abandoned, we have to bear now. But thers re
HONGKONG VICTORIA B.C SEATTLE taxes of olden days which wo Ke
VIA
Manila, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokkaichi, & Yokohama.
little likely to soe again imposed, how
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BANK
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE.
(FRENCH BANE).
ERD OFFICE,
1obi, Bảo Line, Paris, Capital m Reservos
Fri, 18,000,000
BRANCHES AD AGENCIES ever great the pressure for revenue my BANGKOK HOMOFONG Baser
cient days known
the fumage or tr
| be. Aplong them the the, window lar | Bariamuare Mosoner and the hahrth The latter, 31. Gazda ----NORMCHA
DUBOUTI HAIPHONG of smoke farthings is mentions in HAKOW Domesday "“Book, und was in forceflong Hang1 before the Spoquest. It-wes regarded in later days with bitter hatred, and the VisitaOL. the
Hermed
Operated by the magnificient and splendidly equipped Passenger Steamers "Fushimi Maru,” Suwa Marn
Kashima Maru and Katori Maru, bath of over 20,000 memor tons displacement.
Next sailing from Hongkong; Pumbini MisrD, FRIDAY, 18th Dec, at 11am. MarATURDAY, La Doc, ct 11 am
Cmitting Mari
For furtum information suply to
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MORISS
and collector
PEKING TOPI
PONDICHERT
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ALINIPPO
MATIONS
PISENTS
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ALL LOWER BERTAS and large,
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prope prowesgorge cannot be surpaweda blakete: neo Interchangeable with: the Toyű Kiện Khm
Canadian Paolin Ocean Bervices, Ltd. urther information, extos, Aberafurs; sobodules etc.
COMPANY'S FICE £15
$14,500,000 $14,000,000 AUSBORIN
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· CAPITAL
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BOLE AGENT MITSUI BUSSAN :KAISHA,
MITSUBISHI SHOJI
KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co.) COAL, GENERAL INFORIB and EXPORTS.
|
Hon. Mr. B
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Fr
Hongkong SJ, STARE, Esq.
MANAGEEK!
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DJOKJAKAKTA
Shanghal-A, G. STEPALL, Esq.
Kota Razsa, MAXIMAR, MIDAR,
London Bärture-Loxdor.. County & | Paar,
WESTMINEZER & PART'S BAIL, 120, 1 FALIKBANG,
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On Current Accom, the rale of Two per cent, per annum in the daily balance
OF FAXED DEFORIES Saigon, Haiphong Hinol, Enby: Yoko Madras, Fondichery. Calcutta, Bangkok, months Sy per cent. per anATING) kmė: Kobe, Melbourne Saws New
LONDON
STABB Chic Manager
Hongkong, Oct. 16, 191K
** HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK, THE busines of awe above Bank Le conducted by the HONGKONG. AND SHANGHAI RANKING OOR- PORATION. “Bules may be obtained as application VAN EN MA
„INTEREST-en deportie is miksal-on- the minimum monthly balanc
London and Ambas Bank, Lankind. collection Bills of Hrobange, The Bank boys and sells and receive
tatter of graditi on ka - Branches, and Остриров Dontinent in Great Britalo America
SOLE PROPREITORS OF TAKASNIKA, COHL. – MUTARE, AGA KISHIDAKE, YOSHINOTARI, KOJO, NAMAMUTA, SAYO,KANADA, FEB UELT per annum. Demetacr misy transfer at their option balness of ŚHINNBW. KAMIYAMADA: BIBAI, ! $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND and 'OYURAPI COAL MINES.-
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AGENTS FUE S'AKITO COAL, '-'
Head Office
Branches and
TOKYO,
Bourkong, Uct. 30, 1918-
REKS
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- INDIA, LIMITED
For the Hongkong and Shanghai | Bang
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