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'AMUSING EPISODE! LORD INCHCAPE'S SPEECH.
Tragedy has hinned the portais London, December 8-In the of one of Shanghai's best-known course of his speech at the clubs, and its members, who nor-eighty-sixth annual meeting of mylly wear a becoming expression | the
and Oriental of dignified austerity, have bean Steam Navigation Company, Lord transformed into dejected beings, Inchcape, after reviewing ac having the appearance of men whe counts, stated that they could knew not what or who they are or
insure their outstanding risks to where they are going.
day for a much lesser sum than that standing to the credit of the insurance fund:
TUESDAY,
DECEMBER 28, 1926.
CANADIAN
Roferring to Sir Geoffrey Clarke, who had been elected s Director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com- pany, Lord Inchcape said they 'could have no better man than their colleague. Sir, Geoffroy Clarke knew the work of the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany from A to Z. £300,000 had been invested in the Company's profit sharing scheme during the
STRAMERS year, of which the interest of 71% per cent, had been charged
EMPRESS OF ASLA to accounts.
The scheme pro-EMPRESS OF CANADA "vided a simple way of interesting employees in the success of the Company;
'..
The transformation (says the "N. C. Baty News" happened, ono
Since they last met there had night last week when, in the midst The Board had under con been a change in the Viceroys of of that bayon place of which thesideration the question of treat-India. The Marques of Reading Aafter five years' strenuous and Club iq, so proud, there entered, un-ing this fund as a reserve. expected, unwanted and unherald-year hence he might have more successful work had. Been su
. an apparition. To describe it to say on the subject. For the ceeded by Lord Irwin, who ap- adequately and in detail is ap supplies of maintenance and peared to be winning golden parently beyond the powers of repairs they were paying 75 per opinions from all classes of the those who were inflicted with Its cent. more than before the war community.
He would conclude with a per- presence: but one gathers. out of The bills were staggering and the semi-stupor into which they unless prices came down passage, sonal word, thanking the numer have been plunged, that it was of rates, much to his regret, would ous organisations, which it fell to the "genus hobo" and of that have to go up. Many of their his lot to direct for the leisure- special type which stopa one on the voyages had been disastrously and recreation he managed to short of cargo and the condition secure. He realised how much Bund with some such appeal as "güv'nor can ye spare a dollar for in China caused a serious loss of he was indebted to his capable,
traffic.
upright, loyal and affectionate a poor guy what's missed is ship
Their passenger traffic concoadjutors, whether at Home or I 'aven't 'ad a meal for three days tinued to expand in a remarkable abroad. I've got a wife and family in any degree. They got an occasional where), and if yer ain't got a dollar wil ver give us 20 cents for a bed grow! but welcomed suggestions
for improvement. to-night or. I'1 'ave to sleep in the
Recently he received a vehe. gardens...." and so on for as longment and amusing expostulation as the listenor will liston or until
against mixed bathing in the 20-cent piece has been pro-
steamers. duced and handed over.
Lord Inchcape said he kept in- formed, almost from hour to hour. of all that took place. As Lord Nelson said of his Captains at the Nile, he and his coadjutors worked together as a band of brothers.
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A statement by their account- To all associated with him at The invader of the club was in
ants showed that the P. and O. Home and abroad he expressed! such a condition of griminess as
Steam Navigation Company, 1 grateful thanks. Before many to leave no doubt that he had broken up to-morrow. would be years he supposed that he would successfully evaded any and all:
able to discharge all its obliga have to give up the work which contact with soap and/or water for tions and give deferred stock-he dearly loved. His one ambi many moons; his nose Was de-holders more than to-day's mar-tion when his time came to leave corated in an arresting, manner ket value of their holdings, but was that every business for with a generous supply of sticking the "Peninsular and Oriental which he was the responsible plaster, tangible evidence- of a Steam Navigation Company was head, including the old P. and O. AMERICAN ORIENTAL DOLLAR STEAMSHIP, battle that had gone before; hisa national insitution and would.Company should be in a sound raiment was gonorally in keeping go on with the conviction that financial condition. with the condition and appearance good times would come again. of his features; while he exuded The general strike had involved from nostrils and mouth so pun-the Company in a serious loss! gently volatile a sapour that the presence of a naked light would have been infinitely dangerous to all in the vicinity.'
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Coal Strike Losses.
The coal strike had cost the Company over £200,000 Coal prices had risen and the inferior The apparition lurched into the quality of foreign coal had great- vestibule of the club, to the diamay increased consumption. Nine and consternation of all therein, of their steamers were all combined a sort of gyratory move-burners. They proposed to con- ment with a general survey of the vert the "Narkanda and the place and its occupants and then, | “Xaldera" to burn oil with an instinct that could only have been inborn, made tracks for
While the liners suffered, the tramp steamers had benefited by
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
The E & A 8.a. "St. Albana" left Moji for this port on Dec. 24, and la due here to-day,
The B.. I, ss. "Takada" has left. Singapore for this port and is due here to-morrow at about 7 a.m.
The CPS. R.M.S. "Empress of Canada" arrived at Manila yester- day, at 7 a.m., leayes that port to- day at 4 pm, and is due at Hong Kong on Dec. 30, at 8 a..
the swingdoors guarding the en-"carrying oil to Newcastle." The The P. and. O. s.8. "Mizzapore" trance to the bar.
19 tramp steamer's owned by the left Shanghai for this port on Dec. One club member, whose temerity P. and O. Steam Navigation Com 28. at 8 p.m., and is due here on
long and pany were ünder these unnaturalDec, 80, at about II a.m. is probably due to a pugnacious Walsh ancestry, decid-conditions, and for the moment The Ben Line: .s. "Benled" from ed that things had gone far enough, were paying, their way,
Leith, Middlesbro', Antwerp; Lon- so he barred advance and in dulcet
During the year under reviewdon, Straita and Philippines, is due tones said. "Excuse me, Sir, but the shipping industry itself had to arrive here on Jan. 2. evidently you have made a mistake. run free of strikes.
The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of These premises are a private club, Mr. J. Havelock Wilson's cam-Russia" left Vancouver for Hong open only to members."
paign to favour industrial peace | Kong, via Japan ports and Shang- conciliation, if it expanded, might hai, on Dec. 26, and is due here on prove the country's economic. January 13. salvation,
The inebriated one, after a pro- longed leer, followed by a baleful glare all' round, retorted, "Ish thash sho? Then will yer pleash direct me to a place where gen'lemen can go!!
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The m.y. "Canton" (Swedish East It was prophesied, he said, that Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Antwerp on the Peninsular and Oriental December 13, 1926, and is due hara Steam Navigation Company on or about January 21, 1927. would be badly hit by aeroplanes He believed that and airships.
What happened after that is not quite clear, but it appears that after those present had returned to even if the Empire airways be- DO YOU DREAD THE NIGHT? some sort of normality, the appari-came a commercial proposition,OUGHS and colds always seem to tion had disappeared, prasumably the P. and O. Company would in search of one of the many local hold its own. places where a real gentleman is welcome.
Such is the tragedy. For now none of the members can make up their mind whether a vino veri- tas" is a true aaying or a libél.
HARBOUR OFFICE,
DEPUTY HARBOUR MASTER ARRIVES.
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Regarding the proposal to form company with a capital of £11,000,000 to run 22-knot ships to India, Ceylon and Australia, he considered that the promoter had better put his money into war loan, which would have given him, £350,000 yearly. His share- holders would never get as much. out of the proposed venture as the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, with 400 ships and a capital of leas than £7,000,000 found it difficuit to provide £500,000 yearly to pay its dividend. If the Feninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company had seen its way to cover expenses they would have gone in for a 22-knot service long
The administrative change in the Harbour Department recently an- nounced in the Legislative Council has been carried out with the rival yesterday of Lt.-Comdr. J. D. Newell, R.N., og the "Kalyan" from Singapore, who was met by Lt. Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., the pre-ago. gent' Harbour at Hong Kong.
Recently the Board had arrang. The newcome le to act as Deputyed with the Great Indian Penin-. Habour Master and he comes from sula and the East Indian Railways service with the Singapore Harbour Companies to construct two de luxe trains to run each way be
Board.
Lt. Comdr. Newell is in the retir-tween Bumbay and Calcutta in ed list of the Navy List with conjunction with the Peninsular seniority from Jan 19, 1919." He and Oriental Steamers. was appointed Lieutenant in Jan. 1911 and during the early part of the war served on the staff of Rear- Admiral Mundy, as assistant to the Captain-in-charge at Davonport Dockyard.
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