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1935
Season's Greetings
and Best Wishes for 1935
from
The Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
NEW YEARS EVE GALA CARNIVALS
AT OUR HOTELS
Till 3 a.m.
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-AND
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AT THE
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934
NEW
YEAR
CELEBRATIONS
ALL
"CARNIVAL
NOVELTIES"
"CRACKERS”
“TOYS”
AT
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FROM
DECEMBER 28th TO 31st..
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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 27, 1934.
Sunbeams Out Of Cucumbers
HERE, THERE'
and
EVERYWHERE
COUNT MERCATI
N.
Count Mercati, who was Princess
Marina's only man attendant during her drive to the Abbey on Novem. ber 29, is Chamberlain to ex-King George of Greece. *
His daughter is the wife of Mr. Michael Arien and his son, Count] Leonard Mercati, was at Oxford Infter the war and rowed In the
Balliol eight.
The Mercati family possessed ea- tates in the Dodecanese and bold a Venetian title."
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THE CANCELLED UNIFORM
his
“LLOYD'S” REACHES ITS CENTURY SIMPLE BEGINNING AS
COFFEE HOUSE
NOW REGISTER OF WORLD'S SHIPPING
TAVERYBODY
(By Geoffrey Harmsworth)
bos
Londen. and former names of the. vessels heard of and those of the owners and mas- Lloyd's. But how many people ters, it indicated the ports between know about Lloyd's Register of which the vessels traded, the ton- Shipping and realise that within nage, year of build, the number of This circumstance was one of the the walls of a substantial Victorian-the crew, guns and decks, as well Fenchurch-as the classification of the hull arguments used by the Italians to looking building 'in
street is carried on a vast business itself. jsupport their claim to the islands.
which dictates every detail; down to It was some years later, however, the measurements of the smallest that the famous expression “A 1 at nut and bolt, of the building of a Lloyd's" first came into circulation large proportion of the world's with the introduction of Roman Count Mercati has all the cour ships, of every nationality, shape, capitals and numerals as classifica- tier's meticulousness about clothes.
and size, from the Queen Mary tion marks.
The value of such a register to down to the meanest "tramp?" ' In 1924, it is said, he ordered a Most people (and I confess that shipowners and underwriters alike uniform of great splendour from his I was one of them) confuse Lloyd's war readily apparent, and in order London tailors. It WAS covered
Register with Lloyd's. The differ- to protect the "copyright" the book with gold braid and needed many ence between the two is that Lloyd's was only allowed to be seen by
ttings before the necessary perfec-
are concerned with the business of members, who paid in annual sub- tion was attained.
insuring ships and their cargoes, scription of 12 guineas. When the Just as it was finished the revolu whereas Lloyd's Register are the register began to be printed each tion occurred in Greece.
The King guarantors of the soundness of the subscriber had to deliver up his old and has Chamberlain went into exile. ships bullt to their specification and book at the end of the year before Count Mercati telegraphed can-under the watchful eyes of their new one was fasued to him. If a celling the order for the uniform.
The tailora politely telegraphed one might say, are
461 surveyors,
Lloyd's Register, subscriber lost his copy
he wa back suggesting that the Count advisers to Lloyd'a.
the medical heavily fined and the committed were not obliged to issue a new should arrange with his successor to take it over.
copy to the offender. Supremacy Of Lloyd's There are, of course, other
Rivals Amalgamate classification societies, Norwegian, Towards the end of the 18th French, German, and American century Lloyd's altered their system but at the present time 75 per cent. of classification and thereby not
Your Daily Smile!
Horne pleaded with the Govern ment to be "generous to the last! degree" in providing funds to "I am prepared to back my cur the Fuel Research Department, against a car of any other manufac of the world's tonnage now under only enraged the entire shipping. whose recently issued report ture," says a correspondent. We can construction is being built to the community but also presented an shows clearly that considerable only hope that he never parks just in classification of Lloyd's Register. opportunity for a rival to enter the
front of us.
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The Debt Boomerang
x
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Friend or Foel
IN
Lloyd's Register.
jobstacles still remain to be over-
Of the 30,997 vessels afont to-fleld. Obviously, there was not come. The argument put-for-
day, under every flag and on every room for two registers. ward from the Socialist side that
sen, whose tonnage amounts to A state of crisis lasted until Editor: "Here's a writer who declares 65,576,612, no fewer than 14,508 October 1884, and then the two "nothing can be achieved except that insistence upon payment of war The recent Labour complaint by a Government pledged to the debts will prove to be a boomerang." vessels, totalling 40,088,276 tons, registers amalgamated. The reor- that the Government had "no fundamentals of Socialism" 18 Assistant: "Well, that's just what we have been built under the super-ganised society was governed by a constructive policy for establish-disproved by the indefatigable want. A boomerang comes back." vision and to the classification of committee on which shipowners, ing a collective peace system and attention devoted to research in
merchants, and underwriters were The television-phone, perfected in for replacing by 'international co-cvery possible direction by the
This is a tremendous achieve given equal representation, and in operation the competitive econo-present Government of Germany. Germany, will have its amusing anment. A casual glance at these addition to members paying their pects. For Intance, the 'composite face mic anarchy which leads to war" Yet they can, in no sense be des- when talking over a rural party line. figures barely hints at the immen-annual subscription, shipowner would be hard to beat. That only cribed as being "pledged to the
alty of the labours, the extraordin-themselves had to pay a fee for the means that the Government, un-fundamentals of Socialism."
ory degree of technical skill the survey and classification of the fr like the Socialists, offer no quack]
"As a young man," said the tanned beat in the world-which is crystal-vessels.. veteran in the hotel lounge, "I took lised in the famous Lloyd's Hall For a ship to be "classed at part in the Zulu war.”
Mark "100 A 1,” a mark which i Lloyd's" is the sure guarantee of "Really?" said his young and · fair
accepted without question by the the vessel's excellence in every mercantile community throughout possible respect. It means that not the world.
a nut or a bolt has been placed in How did it all begin? Two nun- position in that ship without the dred years ago a Mr. Edward most detailed plans having been e- Lloyd kept a coffee-house. în Lom-haustively examined and passed by The s.8. Corfu is due here at 5 pm. [bard-atreet at the corner of experts of the register. It' means Abchurch-lane. There is a late that no steel has been used in ita marking the spot where it stood on construction which has not been
nostrum. If the Socialists start- LOCAL ESTATES
ed putting into operation what' Sir Robert Horne described as
their "slushy and impracticable European Leaves $10,700 [sentiments," their internationa!} jeomrades would hastily strip
Chan Wing-chi of No. 62, Wuhu them bare without compunction Street. Hunghom, who died on jand then turn them adrift for December 2, 1933, left local estate
the fools they were. Mr. Lans- valued at $88,100.
companion. "On which side?"
bury, in fact, reminds us vividly Probate has been granted to to-day. of the Professor in the Academy Chan Wah, merchant, merchant,
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
1
house in the 17th and 18th cen- In the case of a ship of the turies was evidently a place of dimensions of the Italian Rex or
of Lagado who had been busy for She Lor-shi, late of No. 43, Jør- The m.v. Malayan Prince, from the building which stands on the tested and stamped by its steel- eight years upon a project for vois Street, third floor, who died New York, is expected here this same site to-day. Lloyd's Coffee- testing staff. extracting sunbeams out of cu- on July 6, 1934, left local estate morning. cumbers, and begged a gratuity valued at $42,600. "as an encouragement to ingen- Probates have been granted to The Dollar Steamship Lines ad-some importance. Steele wrote aur own Queen Mary this means uity," especially as the past sea- She Ka-lai and She Pik-chuen. vise that the sa. President Coolidge about it in the Tatler of 1710, and that literally hundreds of plans had son had been a very dear one for John Reginald Hinton, Mercan-will all from Hong Kong at 8 am Addison a
year later In the to be examined, cucumbers. The Government tile Assistant, who died at the on Saturday for Shanghai, Kobe. Spectator. are no more responsible for the Canossa Hospital on March 5, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, prevailing "competitive economir 1932, left local estate valued at and Los Angeles.
First Journal of Shipping anarchy" than they are for the $10,700... fogs off Labrador.”
EAST LANCS PRIVATE MARRIED
Registry Function
***This Morning
ic....
Mr. Lloyd himself must have been An application by George Gwin- Appearing before Mr. E. W. Ham-a personage of unusual personality It has been aptly suggested by nett Noble Tinson, solicitor, the ilton at the Kowloon Magistracy and ability apart from his catering a Conservative member that be lawful attorney, to seal the certi- this morning on a charge of obtain-and ability, apart from his tavern fore the country is asked to adopt fied copy of the probate, has beening 15 catties of grass paper by all manner of people connected with Socialism it should be given an granted.
false pretences, Chak Lai, a 34-shipping, underwriters, merchants explanation of what Socialism is.
Travellery year-old shop foki, was sentenced to and insurance agents. three months, hard labour. and sea captains from distant lands| The marriage took place at the all found their way to Lloyd's. And Supreme Court Registry this morn- Attractive calendars have been from them he collected all the Ing. between Private Oswald James received from the following: Nor-latest shipping news of the day, of the East Lancashire Regiment, deutscher Lloyd, Bremen, the Ameri- This highly valuable Information and Doris Shee-Lawlor of the Sta can Insurance Co. of Newark, NJ, he in turn distributed to histion House, No. 59 Nathan Road, Bear Brand Swiss Milk, Messageries patrons.. He must have been the Kowloon,
That is rarely vouchsafed. The JUNK CAPSIZED short-comings of Capitalism, ita temporary maladjustments, ita
BY GUNBOAT failure to respond immediately to changing conditions, the hard- ships caused to those who are. thrown out of employment by Icircumstances over which they
Chinese Girl Believed Drowned
Maritimes' Messrs. Jardine Mathe-best-informed man on shipping of Col. F. Eaves, Deputy Registrar have no control-these are dilat- Leaving port yesterday for Saigon aon and Co., Ltd. Insurance Depart-his day. This side of his business of Marriages, performed the cere ed upon ad nauseam. But all the at 5.30 p.m. the Italian gun-boat, ment, The Pharmacy, the N.YK grew so considerably that he demony in the presence of L/Cpl. J.- immense social and economic ad-Quarto, 'commanded" by Captain Line, and Mesars. A. S. Watson and cided to issue a paper, three times Butterworth and L/Cpl. F. Bullock vantages which Capitalism has Brodeversi, accidently crashed Into Co, Ltd. :`
a week called Lloyd's News. His of the same Regiment; conferred upon the British a junk.
Jenterprise and foresight were well rewarded, for Lloyd's List, an off- shoot of Lloyd's Newe, flourishes
people, the great wealth which it| The junk capaized, and the crew, has created and on which -So-together with a cargo of rice, were cialists itch to lay their hands so precipitated into the water. All
that they may solve the problem ninnaged to clamber on to other
of abundance by preventing the fanks, excepting a small girl aged recurrence of plenty-these are five years, who is believed to have blandly omitted from the picture: been drowned.
Sir Robert Horne gave the So- cialists a sound castigation, and]
at the same time, as a firm, be
WHOSE BUSINESS?.
DID NOT KNOW HE to this day!
WAS STEALING
Wanted Chair For Child
So Took It
About the year 1760 the first Regleter of Shipping began to bel regularly printed. Hitherto it had! been written in hand in a small volume and passed from hand toļ hand in Lloyd's Tavern, to be read
GARRISON SCHOOLS BEING CLOSED
War Office Action
The War Office are closing several by the underwriters who wished to Army schools in the smaller garri. In Harbin the dead are left to in China, but I think you are the which were offered to them for inferring the children to the local
"There are 400 million. Chinese learn particulars of the vessels son towns and stations and trans yet over, he called for more in- bury their dead. The local press, only one who does not know the tenaive experiments upon the reports Reuter, has brought to
liever that the day of coal is not
.
Burance,
elementary schools. For each child so transferred a grant is paid out
of Army funds to the responsible education authority.
new scientific uses of coal and the notice of the police that the meaning of theft," said Mr. E. I. the products derivable there-frozen bodies of two Chinese beg- Wynne-Jones to Tang Chuen, who Register Of Shipping from, which he is convinced will gars have been lying on the Skol was charged with stealing two The earliest of these registers in restore prosperity to the coal in-naya street and the 2nd Pakova wooden folding chairs from St. existence to-day bears the dates One of the schools to be closed is dustry. These have long been kaya street at Pristan for two Paul's Church, at the Central Ma-1764-65-66, and it is the most prized the senior school at Ewshot, on the the subject of experiment in days, and that, although the registracy this morning relic in the vaulte at Fenchurch outskirts of the Aldershot Com this country, and only last year quisite authorities have been re- Defendant stated that as he had street.
جویان
mand.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer peatedly requested to have the no money to buy a chair for his I looked through the faded pages. It is believed that the War Office conceded by way of encourage dead removed no organization, child, he took the folding chairs of this romantic little volume the are considering handing over all the ment a-guaranteed preference of either charitable or official, has and did not know that it was a other day, and I was surprised at schools under their direct control to 4d a gallon to British petrol made volunteered to bury these un-crime to do so. He was sentenced the completeness of the Information the various county and local from British coal. Sir Robert fortunates.
Ito six weeks' hard labour.
which it gave. Besides the present authorities.
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