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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,'
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
MHE Steamship
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"BUBLOW, haring arrived, Consignees, of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods with the exeption of Opinn Treamro and Valuables, are being). Ipda sauce stored at their risk into the basardons and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be. obtained.
No claima will be admitted after, the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 10th Deo, will be subject *te rest
råll, broken chufed, and, damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will ba. examined on the 10th Dec., at 9.30 a..
All claime must reach us before the 14th Deo.,
or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected,
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the undersigned:
This Steamer brings Cargo.
Ex 8.8. "DANDOLO" from Venios.
NORDDRUZSCHER LLOYD,
... MELCHERS & Co.,
General agents.
Hongkong, 3rd December, 1908.
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having arrived. Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opfum. Treasure and Valuables, are being Ianded and stored at their risk into the hasar- dous and/or extra hazardons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Paint Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns, and all goods remsining andelivered after the 14th Dec., will be subject; to rent.
All broken chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godoyus, where they will be
sxamined on 14th Dec., at 9:30 AM.
JAB claims must reach us before the 18th Doo..
they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be offected
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the
undersigned.
MELCHERS & Co.,
Agents.
Hongkong, 7th December, 1908...
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S.S." ERNEST BIMONS," COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
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YONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex s.s. "Dordogne" and "Midoo" from Bordeaux 01 8.8. Ville de Constantine” and Ville de Dunk@que" in connection with above Stemmar are hereby informed that their goods with exception of Opium, Treasure and Valu- ables are being lanted and stored at their risk into the hazardons and or extra hazardous Godowne of the Hongkong Kowloon Whart and Godown Co., Li, at Kowloon whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing
Ophiouni Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before P.M., Tovar requesting it to be landed here.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned, Goods remained unclaimed after MONDAY the 14th Deo, at Noon, will bel subject to rest and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 14th Dec., or they will not be poognized.
All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 14th Dec., at 3P.M
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
PNALIN
Agent
Hongkong, 7th December, 1908
FROM HUROPE.
THE H.A.L. Steamship
THE
“ISTRIA".
Captain Luning, having arrived Consignees of Cargo are hereby requested to and in their Bills of Lidiang for countersignature by the Under- signed and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside, e
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before To-DAY.
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All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date
they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have loft the Godwns, and all Goode remaining
subject to rent
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PREMIER AND THE NAVY.
The Naval Correspondent. of the London Daily Telegraph on the 6th ult. wrote as follows:-
"I christen this ship. Collingwood, and may good fortune attend all who all in her With such words Mrs. Asquith, the wife of the Prime Minister, will to-morrow afternoon name the latest leviathan battleship of the British
but
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lest the Brandcoughts youngently mightier, sister.
as recently, Feb. 3 last the first kool-platos of this vessel were laid, and, now, after an interval of just over nine months, she will take the water. The launching ceremony has, however, little relation to the readiness of a man-of-war for active service, for she may at the moment be merely a skeleton hall, or she may be well advanced towards completion. The Collingwood belongs to the infter category. She could have been christened and sent affost several weeks ago, but it has been covenians to the workmon and economical to keep her on the dip. In consequence of this delay she will be the heaviest dead-weight which has
ever been launched at Devonport, displacing about 8,000
ous of water.
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literally she consists of five armoured fortresses, sach with two 12in guns, and round these, for nautical reasons, has been built hull, which accommodates: the ore and holds the eighteen watertabe boilera to supply steam to the turbines, which, in turn, will rotate the four screws.
The Collingwood will be ready to hoist the ponnant in about fifteen months, and by the summer of 1910 the British Navy will possess on active service ten all-big-gun ships, the Dreadnought, Indomitable, Indexible, Invin sible, all now completed; the Bellerophon and. Temernire, nearly ready for service; the Superb, st. Vincent, Collingwood, and Vanguard, or with the Lord Nelson and Agamemnon, each with four, 12in and tan 9.2in gaur, twelve skips Of the forty-five battleships or battleship- cruisers of the now types which are, or are being, built for the world's navies, nineteen will have been launched by to-morrow. Eleven of these are undor the British flag, two belong to Japan, two to the United States, three to Ger... many, and one to Brazil.
THE STRENGTHENGING OF LLOYD'S
The committee of Lloyd's have lately been called upon to solve a problem of great interest to basiness people, and they are to be congratu The occasion is one of peculiar interest, betion, says the Times Commercial Supplement. lated on having arrived at a satisfactory sola- cause, not certainly for many years, if ever, The business of insurance is cond
conducted on has the wife of Prime Minister taken the the upper floor of the Royal Exchange, by foremost part in such a ceremony, To-morrow a large number of private underwriters who net not only will Mrs. Asquith break the bottle of for a far larger number of names and the Australian wine on the Collingwood's steel bow, question which has pressed for an answer has but she will be accompanied on the platform been how to by her husband, the First Lord of the Treasury. arising out of a Lloyd's policy shall be met provide that overy geanine claim Hitherto, the Chief Minister of the State has automatically when it is presented. We say almost invariably been present at such functions automatically," because we do not suppose only in spirit-o groaning spirit, Engrossed that the public hay really suffered in the past, task of finding the necessary be the failure of private underwriters; there money for the Flest from year to year, have vartainly been failures, bat other under. these occasions give rise usually to sad re-writing members have rallied to the assistance, or fections, rather than to patriotic
the brokers who placed the rides have paid the faction on the part of a Premier. Such a vessel, loss out of their own pockets rather than let their as the Collingwood represents to him, not so mach a farther link in the chata of Ixperial; the public in the past may have been even greater clients be the poorer. The security provided for defence, as a heavy drain on the national ex- than that offered by a first class inmance office, chequer. Asthe huge grey-painted mass travels, but it has been lesa tangible, for, in the case of down the well-greased ways into the Hemonge a company, the balance sheet shows the sums set tomorrow, with a final mighty plunge, amid aside for unearned premians, the reserves, and enthusiastic oheers from thousands of spectators, capital, including usually a very large amount Mr. Asquith will see in this mind's eye nearly uncalled. Lioyd's policies like those of the two millions sterling boing withdrawn from the compantes, find their way into every part of Treasury. This ship will cost as much as this the world, and covers multitude of business by the time she is ready for the pennant, stored, operations, and if there be only a suspicion of victually, and manned for ses service--twenty shock i London, a tremor will be felt in the times as much as Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar. ramifications in the Colonies and foreign But, oven in face of such a draught on the countries. That is why we stated the case national resources, Mr. Asquith will be in a plainly in the summer and why we said then position to say, "I told you so" to those who that the committee would probably find it even to-day, in spite of all the circumstances of necessary to reassure the public by instituting the hour, urge smaller appropriations for the an audit of accounts, and by providing that in Navy. When he was already within sight of all cases funds intended to meet claims should high office at the Treasury he stated in the be set apart for that purpose only. House of Commons:..
There are two branches of national expendi- ture to the diminution of which I see no prospect, and for the diminution of which I have no desire. One is the money. we spend
he will watch.
It is already known that the Navy Estimates next March must show a considorable increase
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A correspondent writes to be the Rangoon Gazette:
between the Shans and the Chinese. This view. was held by the late Dr. Cushing. The arga ment in its favour was based on latitude, looks, and language. It is generally conceded that the Shens came originally from the central parts
Some think that there is a racial cotmoction
the Christian ers they moved westward and Southern China. Before the beginning. founded the old Ailac or Nanchao kingdom. It
is also true that some of the Shans have the
cheekbones and almond eyes of the Chinese and there are Chinese words in the Chan language,
on national education, and the other is the money we spend upon the Floot twofold, will take effect from the end of this Six years have passed sincs Mr. Asquith, in year. As matters stand at present every under- Opposition, made this confussion of faith to the writing member of marine riake has deposited House of Commons, and now, in a position of
with the committee a minimum sum of £5,000 the highest honour and greatest responsibility, failure, would be drawn upon to liquidate in securities as a fund, which, in the event of battleship, representing liabilities. From the out of this year practical £2,000,000 sterling, sent adoat. The naval
ly every underwriter will voluntarily submit his expenditure when he spoke, and to-day, compares
accounts to an independent audit, and in those thus t
cases where his abilities are secured by his 1902.
1906. Total naval unklay £83,904,099 £31,952,393
deposit (arrived at by taking the average amount
I'm convinced that all these things can be: Vote for new con-
of claims outstanding at the end of the previous struction...
£8,534,917 £7,545,202 three years) there is nothing more to be asid. accounted for without assuming racial, conneo- In the large number of cases, however, where tion. Away from Chinese influence the Shans do not resemble the Chinese more thaw do other the deposit does not bear a proper proportion to
rases, as Karens or Burmans, who are know to be not Chinese, whatever they are. liabilities, an auditor's certificate must be
I know a produced to the committee by an accountant
Chinese-Shan who affects the Chinese tonsure, spproved by them stating that aonficient sum is bet aside to meet those claims. Further, braids his tir, weare Chinse clothes, can speak the accountant will be required to state that and write Chinese, and for all that I know to this sum is held by trustees for that parpass the contrary a Chinaman may bare scorial only, so that whatever the underwriters his grandmother. In the same way thoro in Rangoon and other places who fortunes may be outside the Room thus sumais are Shans
Barman ways, speak Burmese and wear hypothessted for the security of his polios-long is and many fare Burmese blond is holders. The acceptance of this plan by every
but as the names of all them, but this does not prove that the member is volunt, its requirements will be Bhans an a. racs are related to Barmaus. The Shan features apart from Chinose infiwen CÓ on the one side and Burmese infirence on the other are quite distinot.
above the present level, if our position as the greatest sen-Power is to be adequately main tained.
may
What shall be said of the Collingwood? She is, of course, the latest word in battleship design. Her displacement, it is generally ro ported, will be 19,250 tons, but there is reason to think that this figure will actually be excooded, se in the case of the Dreadnought, which is still given in the "Navy List. as of 17,900 Dons though at
draught she said to exceed 20,000 tons. However that
be, the
Collingwood is a greater Dreadnought, the ninth in direct line of "all big-gun ships" to take the water since his Majesty himself christened the name-vessel of the class at Portsmouth on Fab: 10, 1906. Two sister battleships are a hand-the St. Vincent, which was leanched at Portsmouth on Sept. 10 last; and the Vanguard, which will shortly be sent afloat at Barrow-in-Furness where she Was bagan in April. The general chametistica of the Collingwood may be thus aummarised in contrast with those of the Dreadnought:
Collingwood." "Brendnought..
Length Beam
Draught
I.H. power
Speed
knots
11in
11im. 23/12
Gun protection...
Armament.
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examined on the 14th inst., at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has been affected..
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Office,
Hongkong, 7th December, 1908.
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The argument from language is weaker still above two thousand words examined I found less than one per cent of Chinese in Western Shan and less than three per cent, in Chinese Shan and many of these were official and commercial forms manifestly borrowed. Atten tion has seven times boon called to the fact that some of the names of nambers from one to ten are the same in Bhan and Chinese This also is a case of borrowing. Some of the old Shan names are retained. A similiar caso of borrowing is now going on among Western Shans from the Burmese.
If the Shan and Chinese Languages have a common origin they should show it in their grammatical structure, but it is right here the evidence against a common origin is strongest. In Chinese, for instance, both the adjective and the genitive precede their nouns, while in the Shan they invariably follow. The force of this feet will be evident to any student of compora- tive philology.....
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If the Shans and the Chinese were ing out namely, that Lloyd's underwriters are deter
of the same hole, say four or five thousand years mined that isolated cases of weakness shall so age, why is it that the latter brought with The COMPANY has the powerful steamer again bring into question the fair name of the them letters and other instruments of civil-QURA-MARU" (712 tons, 700 IHP) Room. "The Times Commercial Supplementation while the former remained in a specially built for SALVAGE PURPOSES lettered barbarism until comparatively recent equipped with necessary gear, always ready times? And when they did go to school three Short Notion. thousand years later they did not learn letters from a Chingman bat from their southern neighbours. Chege and other reasons which I need not stop to give here convince me that the! Blinks are only one of the races of Chins before the Chinese.
10 12in.. 27-12-pdr.
10-12in. Anti-torpedo gums 14.4in Torpedo tubes The main musment of the Collingwood is but this is not so. The Dreadnought carries apparently similar to that of the Dreadnought, 45-libre gan, whereas that to be mounted in
a
the Collingwood is of 50) calibres, details of which are still regarded as oppidential. It is "the most powerful weapon, erar; carried by any mau-of-war. For defenze against torpedo craft, the Collingwood is also better equipped. The new in gun which she will mount is a much more efficient weapon than the 12 pounder gun of the Dreadnought, and is even superior in some respects to the 4.7in gun which did such geed work in South Africa. has a particularly high muzzle energy and relocity, and it is claimed that it can maintain. an effective fire of terr rounds a miyate. The now 4in gun compares thus with the old weapon interesting illustration of the progress which has been made in naval artillary in the past ten years ---**
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A RECORD EXIGRATION YEAR.
BEMARKABLE FIGURES.
A White Paper issued last month gives statistics-relating to emigration, and inunigra, tion from end into the United Kingdom for 1907. The total number of inward and outward passengers of all classes and nationalities, and *.It excess of outward over inward passenger to and
from non. European countries word as follow
1907 Outward, 654,949; inward, 993.633 has lanes outward, 341,316. These figures were the highest recorded for any year: 110,041, and out 5240gr were cabin passengers, and Assuming the numbers of passengers travelling for business or pleasure was about equal in both Old type. directions, the
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Terrien De Es Couperis not only declares that the Tai-Shan are one of the pre Chinese races of China but seems to trace them; from even the extreme East and South East
parta
of the Empire, The Alle for Ngai Lao) appear to be a branch of the widely spread Tai tribes which would seem to have been the most numerous, if not most important, of all of the pre-Chinese races of Heath Chins. Incidentally this authority stoles that "ma-tu was on old Shan name for tiger and it is therefore evident that the reappearance of the same name in the Hanwi Chronicle with the some meaning, but used of a Bhau clan, is nu solent. It is not improbable that Yuuuan, under the pane of
Υπ 11ung Be-Long, was a Bhan town before Chinese supremacy.
I met an educated Chinaman the other day who had figured out the relation of the Shana
2.300ft 917ttons Americi. 7513 to Australia. 6.272 to New to the Chinese to a nicety. He said, in sub-
3.3in
Zealand. 2351 to India, and 124,754 to the United States.
stande, that when the Chinese conquered Burme With regard to passengers to and from Euro at about the beginning of the Christian era they kidnapped a lot of Burtuan girls and dropped their progeny along the line between the two countries and that from these hybrid babies the Shan race has descended. Both thei
In general design, though there are these pean countries, the number entering the United and other variations in detail, the Collingwood Kingtext hast wear was 949,379, and the number is of the same type as the Dreadnought, with leaving wes (35,994.
Jthe sanno mazober of keygiams, dhe came The balance inward was therefore, 113,385. act and the argument are chacteristically
radius of action, the same speed. She is a The movement in both directions, was greater Chinese but lacks documentary evidence. Insofiatrons creation of concentrated power, i than in sïy previous year?
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