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We hold stocks of the following Cord Tyres- "PENNSYLVANIA VACUUM CUP"
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HONGKONG LIGHT DUES.
SHIPPING PAPER'S COMMENT.
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DASH TO ARCTIC.
NEW POLAR ENTERPRISE.-
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DEMORALIZED SERVICE.
LORD INCECARE'S STATEMENT.
Lord Inchcape in a letter to the Editor of the Times, on January 26,
8375
Ships are being laid up all over the world because they cannot be run under present conditions. Ports are congested everywhere. Thousands of officers, engineers, seamen, stokers, and stewards are out of employment, and yet a Commission is sitting in Brussels to consider the advisability of limiting employment at sea to eight hours a day.
at
RICSHA ACCIDENT.
LADY THROWN OUT.
AN UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE.
ENGLISH LITERATURE.
TOKYO
MERĀ ROBUST: NASHULE
Mrs. de Souza of No. 12, Barrow Mr. Robert Nichols, the poet, and Terrace, Kowloon, mer with an un-critic, is leaving Entland for ab pleasant sécident yesterday afternoon to take the chart of Engla when proceeding down Jervois Street, at the Imperial College, Takyo, in a risha. In making a sharp turning - was... first occupied by the into Des Voeux Road, the puller was Lafcadio Hear
able to check the speed of the "It is very enterprising of vehicle which ran into the side chan Japanese Government, be said in an nel and overturned, Mrs. de Souza, interview with The Observer, 52 who was thrown bearily from ber capse theirs is almost the first Un seat, was badly injured about theiverzity in the world to invite ing face and had to be removed by motor one to go to teach literature who; in ambulance to the French Hospital, neither a philologist, nor a historian. where the doctor pronounced the in- I am going simply as a working Juries not serious. Mrs de Souza artist and critic. They have sent, does not blame the rissha coalie for not for a man, of purely scholastic the acodent.
attainments, but for a creator.
LOCAL CATHOLICS.
LANTER, MISSION.
PATHER LINCH ARRIVES HERE.
Father Lynch who came by the
I am going to Japan as much to learn as to teach. I am not going to try to teach so much the history of English literature or philology, of which I have really only a passing acquamtance, as the spirit which has
WEDNESDAY, MARGIT V
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Customers are requested to
apply for our Revised Price
List which came into force
on 1st March, 1921.
THE DAIRY FARM, IDE & COLD STORAGE 50., Ltd.
given England the finest body of HONGKONG SHIPBUILDING. poetry possessed by any nation în the world.
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Nor am I going in a spirit of
consciousness.
Pascal than Bismark.
KVERAGE COST.
INTERESTINGO COMPARISON.
A British Select Committee dexting
Vessels
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19. 3
44
11.
PASSENGERS,
DEPARTURES.
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Zamponi, Mr LEChan King, Mr. Mrsant "Cost per Miss E. Trefault, Mesra d. Allen, J. H. D. W. Ton Allen, Mr and Ms Banje. Memes Li
Sin Line Là Hoa Erose A. DA £45. 7.10.
Mr and Ms ED. Whitley, Hers N. 44.17. 8.
*. Sutherland. J. M. Tan, John Watts, 41. 0. 0. Me and Hes W. 8tailer, Mr and Men W. 39. 10. 0. Schultz Mrs G. Ferkoeter, Hrsara 33. 10. James Blyth, Budolf Franks and L
The Stewards' Union is lying down the law as to the work stewards abail do aboard ship; a delegate from the union is aboard each passenger vessel; he prevents beds being taken on deck at night in hot weather, although the stewards are perfectly willing to render this service to the passengets. · Ht... lays down what they are and are not to do. Discipline therefore, is Demands are discount. constantly being made for increased accommodation on board, ship much
For a "Hangaria” yesterday i- in excess of Board of Trade require At the urgent invitation of His Jingom to spread ideas about Eng
Messrs F.Labour, J. V. Simpson, Ima ments. Unless this is given, threats Lordship Bishop Pozzoni, Father P.lish literature. I am going to ter to
Hoi, & A. Laxman, B. C. Elbot, Geiger, are held but that the ships will be M. Lynch, CSS.R., has come from give my idea of what. English held up, and passengers" cabins have Manila, P.1., to preach a Lenten literature has brought in mankind, to be sacrificed to meet the demands, Mission to the Catholics of Hongkong: not what it has brought to the with shipbuilding costs reports that Master A. Archelangelaky, Mer W. ME
nucci, Sche, G. Betz, Mr and Mrs Da thus reducing the earning capacity The opening Sermon will be delivered English nation alone. Istakk careful investigations reveal that der Black. Kennebeck Kirchell, J. Carmetji, of the ships and necessitating higher at the 9.30 Mass next Sunday morning about Shakespeare, for example, ing the war ships were built at a lower Mr Frvices Brews, Menus Nery Ya
ing. The first Evening Sermon wil would rather stress the humanity cost in Hongkong them in any other les, Meers W. C. Rass, Helvin Royer, C. rates of passage money.
Before the war the average wage be at 6 pm: next Sunday night. The of Falstaff than the megalomania country where the British Ministry. 1 Warhol, kim B. Butz, Mr Gre of a steward was £3 10s per month, Mission will last for one week-from of Henry V, because my Ides of Shipping placed orders. The fo- ter, Mrs E. V. Evorech, Mrs L. Watts bed, board, and lodging found, and Passion Sunday, March 13, to Pass that vations are only great in solowing table in The Trans-Pacific and child. Mie. Weber, H R
For that reason counties: the Maritime Wages Board some four Sunday, March 20. The Order of far as they have deepened mankind's shows the average cost of vessels, by Hotcbsod 7. 7. Molyam, Hahtani, & years ago fixed the wage at £10 154 Mission Services each week day will Newton appears to me
a much
Built in to which they have since added £3; be Mass and short morning Confer greater man than Napoleon, and
United States making £13 15s. at the moment, quite esce at 7.30 a.m., Mission Sermon
Japan DANGERS OF KNOWLEDGE. apart from a-large allowance for over and Benediction at 6 p.m. each even- time. It did not matter so much to the ing during the week.
The progress of nations, I con Chim
Canada owner what the wage was during Many years ago the Hongkong
the war, as the ships were on char"Taming on a work visit to the sider, is to be measured in the same
Model The two leading shipbuilding con Government authorised, with the East Boothbay Me, Feb 7ter to Government and the wages China Coast, is well known in Hong-way as the life of individuals, not Hongkong approval of the Secretary of State Work is almost completed on the hull were a charge against the State. kong and Kowloon. His Missions and according to the old-Christian or
of the Bowdoin," in which Dr. Now, however, the wages have to be Retreats given some years ago-be-Mohammedan idea of so much virtue cens at Hongkong are the. Takoo for the Colonies, the increase of light Donald B. MacMillan, explorer, will paid out of the vessels earnings, and fore the war were hargely attended or so much backsliding being re Dockyard and Engineering Company, dues on vessels entering the port make his next dash into the Arctic the earning won't pay them. In by Catolics and non-Catholics. He warded at the last fedgment with a and the Hongkong, and Whampoa Line) from Facific Fertz, left Kobe on from one cent per ton to two cents regions. The launching of the addition to their wages, stewards even gave a Missionette in Shemeen, definite heaven of hell, but under the Company, Ltd. Upon a basis of the March for Hongkong and is due bere per ton, says the issue of Shipping and schooner will take place in the early get tips from passengers, which an after the fall of the Chinese Empire, aspect, which incidentally has appeal above figures, many have predicted Engineering just to basd. The increase spring, and the vessel will be in shape many voyages increase their rem when stray bullets were flying in the led to Goethe and to Mozart, of that British shipbuilders would in the Line) at Singapore on March 8 for The P. & 11. "Khyber left neration considerably. was made as a means of raising to depart from this port by May 1.
The unions dictate to the shipow. Streets of Cafton and discarded series of initiations. Tais-ides was end have to come to Hongkong to get: Hongkong and is due here on March 13. Dr. MacMillan is perfecting plans
queues could be bought for a trifle expessed by Mozart in The Magic their vessels built, but any compari half of the cost of the typhoon refuge at Mangkokteni, and at the close of for an expedition, to begin next sumpers what men are to go in the ships, in the public markets. Since his last White, and by Goethe in the second son must take into consideration the Singapors for this port on Mar. 8ab the year 1923 the necessary amount mer. which will icclade an attempt with the result that incompetent men visit here. Father Lynch spent four part of Faust. Goethe, indeed, ründe factor of exchange. As exchange 3pm and is due here on Mar. 13 at had been obtained, the exact sam to circumnavigate Ban Land and of whom nothing is known have which resulted from the increased penetrate its western coast, 1,000 after to be taken merely because years in missionary activities in As the finest remark about the stands at present, British costs would dues being, in all, $1,104,203. The miles in length, said to be the long- they have joined the union, while tralia and New Zealand and preached progress of the individual or the be substantially cheaper than those of original proposal was to levy the dues est stretch of known coast-Ene in men who have been in the service of in many Cathedrals, and Churches of nation that has ever been made. Hongkong. The above able also in- the company for years are excluded the Commonwealth and Dominion. These four lines were translated by volres unusual wages for shipbuilding hund, mention should be made of the at the rate of two-and-a-half cents per the world.
Under favourable weather cond. One result is that passengers belong. Father Lynch, now Superior of their Charles Sorkey, who was killed in the workers in England. On the other ton, but this was reduced to two cents
Yea, in this thought hes my whole difficulty of procuring iron, steel and
other materials at Hongkong. life's persistence. in deference to the great opposition tions, the Bowdoin" should reach ings and enormous quantities of house in Malate, Manila, belongs to
This is the s, the
total of the raised by the shipping interests in the Fury and Heels Strait carly in cabin, saloon, and table furnishings the Redemptorist Congregation of
true: September. There the ship will be are constantly being stolen. On one priests founded by St. Alphonsus Colony.
voyage alone of a P. and O. steamer, Liguori. He has a simple, direct
He only earns his freedom, owas The object of the increase now frozen in. having been attained, the Hongkong Leaving their vessel under a lone plate and linen to the value of style of talking and, by way of Government proposes that the in- ghard, the party will push forward on £1,043 were removed from the ship. illustration, punctuates his addresses The thieving that is going on at by Scriptural narrative and personal creased rate, which is still in force, a 200-mile trip on sleds drawn by shall be continued, in view of the dogs. Five Eskimo dog-drivers will sea and in the docks is beyond any reminiscences of the Orient and pressing financial needs of the accompany the MacMillan outfit across thing in history. A man recently Occident. Colony. In justification of its pro-the rugged, ice-bound country which removed the clocks from the smoking posal to continue the higher levy, the abounds in perils. Establishing of a and music rooms of one of our Government states that considerable camp 700 miles south of Etah in the steamers while the passengers were expenses are still to be incurred in north-western part of Green and is embarking at Tabury Dock, and they' have never been traced. Within the the interests of shipping, such as the one of the main objectives.-Reater.
last few days a piano was remov installation of diaphone apparatus
ed from one of the steamers in dock and carried off to a cottage, where, however, it was fortunately recover ed. The quartermaster, who was on watch, and found to be in league
TRADE ENTERPRISE.
BRITISH SECRET SERVICE.
OVERSEAS MARKETS REQUIREMENTS.
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HOG ISLAND.
THE WORK DONE.
CESSATION OF SHIPBUILDING ACTIVITY.
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PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 10.
to
War:
Who every
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The sa "Tyndarens" (Blue Funnel
00 March 12.
The Idomeneus (Blue Franel
about 6 am.
workers' task a strenuous one. The
A Shinto ceremony, praying for the Crown Prince of Japan in con- the safe and prosperous voyage of nection with His Highness trip to Europe, was performed at the Kotohira Shrine, a famous Shiate abrine dedicated to the patron saint of sea-faring, men, in Shikoku, re- Those going home from the East Cently. The Rev. Kotooka, chief day must conquer wil be glad to learn that there is Warden of the shrine, came to Tokyo... subsequently with a tablet, which is no need to scramble for accommoda- believed to be a proof against ser "It seems to me," Mr. Nichols tion at London hotels in these days. disasters, and presented it to the continued that western civilisation The majority of the hotels are Crown Prince, through the Household has reached a certain stage, of in-periencing a slump.. Before the War itiation in modern scientific know the New Year was generally a period Department. Similar tablets were ledge. It has learned quite how of quiet, and now prewer conditions Presented to Prince Kanin and to the dangerous knowledge can be The seem to have returned, except in the warships “Katori” and “Kashinia.”
A small fire broke out, yesterday. next stage, is to leam to cure itself matter of tarifs. Hotel accommoda- of the danger that arises from tion, however, is being rapidly
extended. The Hotel: Cecil, which straw store shed at Ngauszewan, at Wagian and the directional wire
scientific knowledge misapplied, less apparatus at Cape D'Aguilar, in
were promptly in attendance with "The arts and sciences exist for can take 700 guests, re-opened Kowloon City. The district polica addition to which there will probably
the discovery of law in nature, but recently and was followed by the hand engines. Hoses were played be very heavy expenditure on har-
Shipbuilding scrivity at Hog Island, in the process of discovery they serve Grand Hotel, which will accommodate on the Banses. A breeze caused the bour developments when the report
with the thieves, bas gone to jail the world's largest shipyard, has another purpose not origically theirs about 400, while the Metropole, flames to spread rapidly, making the Is received of Sir Maurice Fitz
With the delivery of the they discover the bonds between with provision for 800, is expecte maurice, who recently paid a visit to
with the receiver and they are now ceased. picking oakam instead of playing steamship "Aisne the Army the different races of human kind. to be ready for occupation in a fewfutility of saving the structure was the Colony with a view to examin
Transport Service, after the vessel's In the spectacle of the abyss of months. Ing thoroughly the harbour facilities The greater competition for the the piano. and conditions, and making recom- trade of the world is leading to in- If it bad not been that there were trial trips during the latter part of phenomena, each divisible mendations for improvements. On creased enterprise on the part of very so many passengers requiring to go January, not a ship remains to be smaller phenomena, which physics these grounds, the Government sub-many British manufacturers, who are East in the last few months, who
Hog Island, during the three years mit that the present light dues are eager to secure a footing in new mar would have been immeasurably in completed at the great plant... not an improper burden.
It is stated that since trade convenienced if they had not been
chief factions in placing America in We are not aware whether it was conditions became more difficult Bri able to go, we would certainly its existence, has been one of the
"THE WAR TO END WAR." the intention of the Hongkong tish firms have been making more use have taken no stewards except the frost rank of meritime powers.
own terms. We may Created as a war-time, emergency, "The great function that art and Government to get its proposal of the confidential intelligence placed our ratified by the Legislative Council on at their disposal by the Foreign Office be forced next season to term more than 36,000 men and women science exercise, though not origin- nate our passenger services at a the day it was submitted, February and the Board of Trade through the Continental port in order to rid were employed there at the peak of ally theirs, is to give to man a sense 17, but it is refreshing to know that Department of Overseas Trade.
ourselves of the union tyranny and the matter is not be settled without An official of this latter Department the Maritime Wages Board's oppres- a discussion. At the time the informed a representative of the Sun stor. In any case, as things are Government submitted the proposal, day Times that manufacturers are now, we would be in pocket by dis neither the shipping nor the com- learning from the collection of foreign charging all men and laying car mercial interests at Hongkong had made samples-and-the-15,000-foreizal ships up in the River-Fal in-charge had any opportunity to discuss the trade catalogues of the department of a 70-year-old caretaker and a few matter, and Mr. Holyoak put for some of the requirements of overseas aged charwomen. ward a pertinent request that the markers hitherto almost entirely sup The end, of course, will come, whole matter be shelved till a subse plied by Germany and other countries. and we will get back to a sound quent meeting of the council, a request it is estimated that at least 1,000 economic working basis, thêugh “it Which was acceded to by the Gov-catalogues a month are leat to British may not be quite yet. ernor. We have not yet received a houses, many of whom are able to copy of the subsequent debate, but re-design their goods to meer the there can be no doubt that the whole needs of certain foreign users, and matter calls for a thorough inves thereby sell them what they actually tigation and discussion especially in view of the statement made by Sir require. Frederick Lugard in 1908, when he said that
kets.
its operations.
1
I am
pay.
Though at the moment into London's hotels are far from full, yet 6000 realized, and attention was turned to the neighbouring matsheds me of the cheaper establishments and small houses and with the belp present to us, mankind discovers its report that practically all their rooms isolation between the infinitely great are booked for some time ahead. At the villagers, the police were suc that the staff are being asked to take spreading to them. After a while, equally mexplicable.
tems of a week's holiday without when the freeze subsided, hoses were again played on the burning matshed, and the infinitely little, both at present one establishment things are so slack Cessful in preventing the flames from
and a stiff fight between fire and water resulted in the rear portion of the matshed being saved. Damage of his isolation and the need for knowledge as I shall have gained to was done to the extent of $35. The The first keel was laid on Febru-10lidarity. In common with a great the English, I shall succeed la structure is not covered by insurance. ary 12, 1918, and since then 122 many other English youths I entered making full use of the three years
The most remarkable instance of vessels, of a total of 956,750 dead- the war-hoping that it would be a before me, I feel I shall have done
now in something worth doing in increasing the survival in Europe of a magic weight tons more than one-tenth of war to end war. the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet process of discovering that it is not this sense of solidarity. For what is ritual is that of excommunication of Corporation's tonnage of contract steel so much the jugglings of politicians, seeded now is consciousness in man Mr. Venizelos, which took place at ships built at all the ship-yards in the the greed of individuals, or the short that the rights of the individual Athens with due ceremony on Christ- was performed by the ecclesiastical United States have been turned outsightedness, of specific races that must be subservient to the rights of mas Day, when a solemia smatberta”
permits the recrudescence of war, as the whole, Rester.
the lack of any sense of solidarity In Japan, I understand, the word authorities. The intellectual quality among humankind the lack of a I does not exist. It is to learn of Christianity in Athens may be The Japan mails have been sense that we are, as it were, obesar more for myself how little this word judged by what follows. The body. burnt up again during the passage Termin inhabiting a third clasan'snet, I should exist, and how much the of Venizelos was represented by a "The alternative lies before us to word "we" counts, that I am taking ball's head, which the Mitropolitan of across America, and the accident All of the large shipping com- mist cause considerable inconveni realise this, and work together, ne to on a piece of work which at Best Athens solemnly excommunicated and Mr. Nichols has recently completed followers of King Constantine, then The range of catalogues includes panies operating on the China Coast ce and loss. It is now consider perish by the very knowledge that must indeed be difficult, and at worst then cast the first stone. Those atte It everything from heavy machinery to announce that, on and after March by more than two years since the was originally gained for the help of | may cost me more than I think." |ing the ceremony-all," of comes,
soap and scents, jewellery and furni- The ten per cent reduction on the war ended, get the mails are a humankind by the only unacknow
will be gular, and uncertain, they put the those of artists and scientists, who attempted to display the direct against Venizelos. The primitive allowed to missionaries ture, fancy goods and pianos. These ordinary passenger fares hitherto unsatisfactory as ever. Slow, ireed real trade unions in exisice, religions drams, in which he has threw a stone and attered then magic ritual would cause the death Far East much farther from Europe make their knowledge the property antithesis of spiritual and material idea, of course, was that such a abolished.
than in pre-war days, and, on the of the world in return for the bare life Hiyo nito, antar
"Thad hoped," he said, "the see of the victim, but Mro Venizelos catalogues and 100,000 trade sa ples, representing nearly every cơum- try, show the British reamfacturers
whole, a good and regular Suez ser necessities of life and whose what their rivals redoing and bow A passenger sampan under way vice would find much popularity. ledze is turned by the lied and the this drama performed before I go, according to latest reports is mii. to cater for particular markers. It in Hunghom Bay yesterday after Remembering the days when we used ignorant and the indifferent to the hit the necessities of life must always very active. Perhaps it was his trust that it will be preformed whilst following morning the cairn of stones gelical Union has sent a letter to the exchange become normal British firms Tungyick," coming out of the Siberian route we can only reflect destruction
The Shanghai Christian Evan considered that when the rates of noon, was sunk by the stezin launch to criticise the eccentricities of the purpose, not of creation, but of take precedence of those of art, followers who saved: kims for on thes If in imperthit such knowledge I am away. For myself, it is enough was found covered, with Bowery to Kikogsu Provincial Assembly request-will be able to make great headway shelter. The six people on board that at its worst it was very touch
bringing back from Japan, such
such write it." ing that the sale of lottery tickets be because of the well-informed nature were rescued by the launch's crew, better than the American or Cana as I have to the Japanese, and if in that I bave had the
opportunity to which were attached cards inscribed
probibited.
of the new trade intelligence service. The sampan is a jutal loss.
rot the intention to make the extra light dues permanent, but only tem porary in order to help to pay for the typhoon shelter.
dian.
know
From the Venizelists of Athensa
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