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MONDAY, MAY 16, 1911.
MERCURY MOTOR CAR GENERAL OTTER
MAXY BRANCH
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5-81 Des Voeux Road Central," WHT POINT BRASİM 1366
ODDS AND ENDS,
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT.
HONGKONG.
LONG BROK
HOME ITEMS.
LINER DE LUXE.
NEW ADMIRAL STEAMER.
ARRIVAL IN HONGKONG.
S.S. WENATCHEE **DESCRIBED.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
lonch has been introduced by open MANCHESTER MARKET, fireplaces in several of the public): rooms. Everywhere the furnishings and hangings blend harmoniously with the surroundings..
Our last report was dated March 30th.
The staterooms, are replete with
Cotton. This week has seen some. modern conveniences, and the old type of berth has been superseded by spaci- rather violent fnctuations, due to ally designed mainelled beds: Hot the Coal strike, reports of reduced. and cold water is supplied to every
Wel
American F. M. 7.59d, last week 8.66d
-Fuvptian Sakolliridis F. G. F. 17.000. last week 17.300.·
Yarns. The labour situation has: affected this market, and little busi- ness has come to book.**
There steamed into Victoria har-room many of which have their own acreage in the United States, and bour yesterday "afternoon from private bathrooms connecting. The proposals for hinancing the Cotton Shanghai a vessel which cast eight public rooms are numerous, light, held there.
Liverpool Spot prices yesterday million dollars to build and icy and exquisitely finished TOY reckoned to be the finest ship ever include a social hall, tea room, amek- turned out by an American shipyard.ing room, reading and writing rooms, It was the ss." Wenatchee" which The dining saloon is on the "B" is the first of a fleet of five vessels to deck, over the centre of which is large leaded glass dome. be operated by the Admiral Line and located is now on her maiden voyage to the Tables are arranged for small and large parties. Specialty designed Orient.
Were she painted grey instead of mahogany buffets, etc. blend harmon
iously with the surroundings. green the "Weäätchee" might pass, at a distance, for an American' navy The galleys are fitted with the Cloth. The coal stoppage is the There are at present" 140,000 un collier. Doable ended, with a pointed most modern equipment, including dominant factor in the market this stern as well as a pointed bow, she electric bake ovens, grills and oil geek. The effect has been to scare: emplaret in Switzerland
has one stubby funnel set amidships heated ranges Ventilation and buyers and sellers out of the market. There is what in these slack times, and a cluster of square derricks fare beating throughout the ships bas appointed interior that has gained manner, insuring comfort at all times. for the Wenatchee the title of Extensive refrigeration plants are but little comes to book. Still the the last word in luxury for she fastalled with separate compartments steady hand to mouth beving is in is as luxurious within as she is for, queat, fish, vegetables, butter and evidence, and will probable cuntinue eggs, etc. and is of sample capacity as soon as settlement is reached
with the labour troubles ungraceful externally.
for any emergency
India is still raising objections to Separate completely equipped hospitals are provided for passengers facing its losses, and Madras Piece and crews, filted with modern Goods dealers ever anggest a restric appliances A poleworthy point is tion of importe by Government to comfortable accommodation enable them to realise high values for
their depreciated, stocks
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The Cunard liner "Laconia" was advantages of penhibition that it has launched from Swan and Hunter and aft. But it is hex magnificentlý į been taken care of in a very complete we must call a fair volume af enquiry.
shipyard, Wallsend.
Massan Brief Popularity.
It may be chimed as one of the the effect of stimulating interest in museius, who educative influences are unquestionable. The same ten-
deaty was observable in Norway ira. mediately after strong drink was statutorily abolished." In older ders it was quite used for distilling to be carried on at Norwegian farms. and the museums catein samples of the types of still which were then in
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The Metropolitan Asylums Board is purchasing the Homerton Infirmary for £198.000 from the City Guardians.
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Postage rates for foreign letters will be increased soon, though the amount of the increase has not yet been settled.
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The Paris Municipality has voted $100,000 for the purchase of 2 gram mes of radium for use in public hospitals.
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The introduction of pashibition in 1919 aroused a cures interest in the study of antiques. Crowds thronged the maware, scimâtei by a strange and gnificant thirst for
A sturgeon weighing 38 stones. the knowledge about old farm lumture. biggest ever landed at Grimsby, was By and by the museum authorities taken into port by the trawler thonght fit to close auth where affBorras," and sold for £18 in old still happened to by on view. After that high-handelsohn, there markable interest in mens manei. Dress-Designer Defed.
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The Queen has sent a consignment of beautiful primroses for the poor and sick folk associated with the
That, at any rate, was the impres sion formed by a China Mailreporter who took advantage to-day of the general invitation to view the new liner de lure which has been issued by the Admiral, Line representatives the in Hongkong. The gangway crossed. provided for officers and crews. It
Calcutta is still in the market for evidences of luxury, thoughtfully is up to the most modern standards planned and carried out an a and far surpasses older ships.
Dhooties, Mulla, and Nainsooks, The sumptuous scale, confront ere jat The Commander of the Wee
atchee is Captain J. E. Guptill who, Straits and Java have made some for several months prior to delivery, purchases, but Chins remains quiet. 4 Given easier money and a clearer! on March 4, was at the yard of the builders, superintending the fitting situation as regards labour and inter- out. His wide experience and never national politics, a steadier market failing good humour did much to and a fair volume of business may be make the vessel a success. Captain looked for. Gerard T. January, is the Commander of the "Keystone State."
every step.
Portholes effectively camouflaged with neat little French windows; a palatial dining saloon, furnished with reversible mahogany chairs that give the diver the choice of a cane or a cushioned seat; decks that are floored with rubber tle-there are some of the features that first arrest attention.
On deck one finds a player piano which jazzers employ when lounge's grand piano is in use and there is a Ageri $1. the chairman of the cabinet record player installed in the Kingston (Surrey) Beach until comfortably fitted up smoking room. room makes an inviting retreat on months ago. Mr. H. W. Price, who A glass-enclosed, green latticed tea at one time played cricket for Surrey the boat deck and outside that is a and the MCC bas died at Cobham. verandah cafe. Space is also set apart on the boat deck for a swimming The Copenhagen Eximbed reports pool ten feet deep and a roomy pro that two Danish engineers have con-menade enclosed by patent balanced structed a model aeroplane the pro-glass windows is provided on the pellers of which are driven by com bridge deck. Altogether there is claim. that there is more public room space on the Wenatchee"
A woman will follow the fashion, ¦ Claremont Central Mission. Penton- even the frks of taha. tp to a ville. paint. Then she puts her foot down. She will not be trampl-not even to please Paris. "When in the early spring displays French fashion crea- tas decreed a honger skirt, it was de clare that Englishwe at any rate would have me of it. But! apparently, the, Frezowoes them selves have asserted their indepen dence. A Paris ctrespondent reports that the change has he veteri and that the designers have bad to seknow pressed air instead of by petrol abundant evidence to support the ledge defeat.
in proportion to the number of
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Bar Silver. is quoted at 3d. last week 33.
Exchanges. This week; last week.
55.95 36.70 .11.33 11.371 3.911 3.921
Paris
The ships have been built on the Isherwood system of longitudinal framing to take the highest class in both American Bareas and Lloyd's Amsterdam Registry of Shipping. They will New York start as oil burners but are so design- Calcutta ed that conversion to coal will not be Hongkong
a difficult matter.
With the sister ships building at Newport News and Sparrow's Paint! as well as at Camden, this class of: ships will go a long way to eliminat ing the absence of passenger vessels under the American flag in the Pacific and South Atlantic services.
THE "WENATCHEE'S" MOVEMENTS.
The United States Shipping Board Wenatchee" to hare allotted the
Shanghai
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1.3) 211 241
3.1
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
The old-fashioned i motors, Victorian skirt, now finally drosted. had nothing in its farout. It was heavy, insanitary and disfiguring gate of Mr. George Moulder, aged by any other vessel afloats Women like the store him because seventy-threes and Miss Eliza Rootes, it allows free movement and is adapted aged sixty-five.
The marriage took place at Rams passengers, carried, than is offered Admiral Line for the sun form SeattleANTED.-T PURCHASE South
China Horaing Post Shares: to Manila by way of Yokohama: Apply 8.B.C., c/o Casa Van OFFICE.” In every bedroom there are twin Kobe, Shanghai and Hongkong. She The bridegroom, beds with a reading light over each will leave here for Manila on Thes. and electric as well as steam heat-day at 4 p.m. retwining on May 23, ing is installed. Cool air can be got and departing for Seattle via Shang by turning a knob one way, and hot | bai on May 25. air by reversing the process. Hung in each room, too, is a swinging silver thermos bottle and a shaving lamp There are screens and vestibules to
to the buoyant activity our time. whose first wife died in 1919, is a It is also charming to beholders: Has grandfather. it not removed the racial reproach of our boots? And size it displays a neat ankle, must not all ackles ke t? The womes of the jury are nanimous: the long skirt must not
come back.
Four Convicts Whipped
DERÈCHIVE PUMPS CAUSE DELAY. The Wenatchee.. is running fourteen days behind her schedule owing to the fact that her circulating
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PUBLIC ACCHION.
Exhibited for the first time, an Airedale terrier belonging to Miss Nora Statter, of Woking, Surrey, took rine first prizes and a second at the Airedale and Bulldog Club's show easure freedom from flies and pumps proved defective during LAC be held on TUESDAY, the 17th day of at Barking, E.
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A despatch from Wing, the Toothache for a week was suggested capital of Delaware, declares that the
at a Bristol inquest yesterday as the State whipping records were broker when four convicts were sentenes reason for the suicide of a 16-year-old to fergive 110 lasher from the cat-boy named Robert William Wyatt, o-nine tails before commencing their but the coroner said it did not seem prison terms of ten years' and inbear an adequate one. each. The wandea of the countr "jail wielded the ent, and administered fort lashes to one, convicted of robbery, forty lastes each to two highwaymen, and twenty lashes to a man convicted of later. In view of the increasing number of crimes, it is urged that fiogging, which has been gradually dying out in America, should be revived, and that Delaw are's example will undoubtedly be followed in the other States, more
Weeks without much rain have dealt severe blow at ordinary watercress farms, but ponds with concrete walls built in some parts of the south of England have proved their value throughout the dry weather.
Her
latting by Public Auction Sale, to PARTICULARS and Conditions of the
draughts. Many of the rooms have voyose across the Pacific.
May, 1991. 3 p.m. at the Offices private connecting showers or tab turbines, however were working in of the Pabic Works Department, by Order baths and there are four specially splendid order right through and her furnished bridal suites which each passengers speak very highly of the boast a private sitting room, maid's new liners excellent behaviour is bedroom, trunk store, a luxurious heavy weather. bath and a private entrance on deck.
LATEST SAFEST APPLIANCES,
VISITORS INVITED.
PARTICULARS OF "THE LOT.
Reglatey
Locally,
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
af Eis Eserilency the Officer Administer- ing the Goremment of One Lot of CoWN LAND at Chai Wan in the Colony of Hongkong, for a term of 75 yous, with the option of renewal ab a Crown Rent-to-be fixed by the Surveyor The Admiral Line Officials have of His Majesty the King, for one further The "Wenatchee" and her sister extended a general invitation to term of 75 years. ship the "Keystone state" are two members of the public to inspect the of nine similar vessels being built by vessel to-day and a motor launch the New York shipbuilding corpor service for the convenience of visitors, ation, Camden, New Jersey, for the will run from Blake Pier between 3 Emergency fleet corporation and the pm and 6 pm. A number of pro- two ships mentioned, have been minent Hongkong business men have allocated by them to the Pacific been invited to attend, an informal Steamship Company, for operation in reception to take place on board the "I have two fingers which cannot the fast passenger and mail service liner this afternoon.
Accompanying the "Wenatchee" leave anything alone," said Archibald between Seattle, China and Japan. Thompson Jones, 26, a police-fireman, Originally destined to be transports, ou her maiden voyage is Mr. J. J. sentenced at Liverpool to six months' the war ended while they were still Gorman, the Admiral Line's general prisonment for theft and the unlas in the early stages of construction manager for the Orient and Mr. G. and the design was modified to suit J. McCarthy, assistant general especially when the crimes are acful possession of tools and keys.
peace conditions.
passenger agent. companied by violence.
The vessels are 535 feet long and Where Women Eule.
No further news has been received Every staunch supporter of Wo of Col. Toby Rawlinson, brother 72 feet beain with a draft of 30 feet, 6 inches. They have accommodation man's Rights should visit Japan of Lord Rawlinson, who was detained for 260 first class and 300 Near Ishinomansky there exists a by the Kemalist Tucks of Ezzerum third class passengers with a crew settlement, the member of which (Armenia) in January last year, and of 10 and in addition have a gain their livelihood by diving for who was to have been exchanged with cargo, capacity of seven thousand ARE RIVERS NEVER STILL?
tons. Their gross tonnage is 14,127 pearls. At least, that is to say, the 19 other British officers.
tons. Driven by reduction geared women dive for the pearls. The men.
The law of gravitation, reduced to who are regarded as, ia every respect, A small shipyard in the Bristol turbines of 12,000 barse power, sup inferior beings, presumably stop at Channel has had to close down oxing plied with steam from eight bollers its simplest terms, declares that every home and look after domestic affairs. to the Admiralty withholding money fired by feel eil, the Wenatchee particle of matter attracts every Every husband is supported by his alleged to be due, because of a dispute and Keystone State will maintain other particle of matter in the uni- wife. When a girl is born into the Mr.. Wignall, M.P., has seen the Ad-speed of 17) knots in service. Therese with a force which operates bailars are of Babcock and Wilcoxalong a straight line joming the two. world there are great rejoicings; a mirsity, and has hopes of effecting type, Westinghouse Turbines and So far as the earth is concemed, boy baby is received with philosophic each a settlement as will enable the De Laval gears being fitted in the this force of gravity tends to bring all indifference. Girls are taught to dive] yard to be re-opened.
**Wenatchee and Bethlehem Cantects as close as possible toward the turbines with Fall gears in the at the age of four; and ten years later
At an inquest at Harrow on Fredk.
"Keystone State. As a direct centre of the earth. they begin to work in real earnest. When they marry and have families, Walker, 16, of Wealdstone, the erid result of experience gained during The water in rivets, therefore, is they automatically become the Heads ence showed that the lad was quite the war, these vessels embody the always seeking to reach the lowest of those families. It is a state that healthy, and went to work and assisted latest developments and safety possible level which, in this case, is ako obtains in the insect-world-his master, a veterinary surgeon in appliances known to science; Their the ocean Starting with the rains among some species of spider, for an operation on a dog. A few minutes bulls are divided into fourteen comand shows of the mountains, the instance, and among bæs -
later he was found lying dead in the partments, and three of which may water, trickle downward, gathering Jard. The post-mortem, showed no be damaged without danger of the force by reason of the brooks and Dining Later,
vessels sinking under otherwise
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WHY
THE
DHE Undersigned have received in-
stractions so tell by Public Auction
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TUESDAY, "May 17, 1911.
commencing at:11 am
No. 23 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd.,
Kowloon
(For Account of the Concerned) 50 Bales Liverpool Twill, 3 Blue Stripe Gunnies 44" x 26" 2) tha. (818) and afterwards at No. 51 Godswa
Gummies (2 lbs.) 03 Bales Herry Com Green-Strips
Teema-Cath on delivery
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Hongkong, May 16, 1921,
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Landon is dixing later. Gradually organit disease, all the organs being favourable conditions. The lifeboat springs which constantly increase the TO SECRETARIES OF CLUBS AND WESTMINSTER BREWERY LIMITED it is returning to something like pre-healthy. The father said the lad had equipment is of modern type and a mass of the stream. Then, as it war habits. Dinner parties are being never had a doctor to attend him in very elaborate fire figating system confinues to grow, the body of water arranged for 8.30 and 9 o'clock, and his life. A verdict in accordance with is installed with automatic alarms moves gradualy onward and down- dances go into the small hours, the medical evidence was returned in each room and compartment, ward until it finally empties, either The wireless apparatus has a range into the ocean or into some large lake, Several theatres are catering for the
of 2,000 miles, and a submarine, which, in turn, has an outlet leading late diner. At some West End cnbat
signal system is also Etted.
towards the
fai loimging place regardest of the roads
there has been trouble because mem- staff," said a club secretary to a be will not dine until 9 p.m. A rule reporter. Our members got into was made in many that a meals the habit of dining early, and should be served in the coffee room many of them continue it. We have after 9 pm Waitresses, who still to be ready at 7 o'clock for the ently elements remain at many of these establish foomers Later fining means more 4 The interior decorations are Laste- ments, were engaged on those condi- expense which the club can't so fully carried. tions and object to being kept later. But it will have to be done. Members scheme being the American
type of architecture. It means the provision of an extra must dine when they like,
LL preliminary notices of forth coming meetings, lectures and entertainments, sent for insertion in
A very few rivers, the news columns of the China Mail,
subter
A under
The promenade decks me extensive it is true, hay
las acpounced in May and June of rea. In other and the fact that they are partially ranesa antlets, but even the must in are charged for at the rate of $1 each, last year) providing that they do rot always an motion glass enclosed makes them, a delightsimme lead
occupy, more than our lines. In future this space, is exceeded they this case the bed of will be plac
columns at the prevals
because they
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