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NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN-MAIL-LINE-
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
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"PRINZESS 'ALICE," having arrived, Consiguess of Cargo are hereby. informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opini, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazard ona and/or extra hazardons Godowus of tho Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Ltd., Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence dölivery may be obtained.
Optional Carge will be forwarded on uuless Intimation is received from the Consignees before Noon TO-DAY requesting it to be landed tore.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 9th. last. will be subject to rent
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be ex-
mined on the 9th inst., at 9.30 AM,
"All Claims must_rench-us-before the 14th
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or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be öffected.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undermigned,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Co.,
General Agents.
Hongkong, 2nd November, 1911.
FROM EUROPE,
THE H.A.L. Steamship THE
"SLAVONIA,"
Captain Belmor, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence delivery may be obtained against Bills-of-Lading countersigned by the Undersigned
Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notion to the contrary be given TO-DAY.
All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hare, after which date they cannot be recognizòd. ·
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods kave left the Godownt, and all Goode remaining andelivered after the 10th inst. will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods must be left in the Gedowns, where they will be examined on the 9th inst, at 9.30 AM.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any ease whatever.
This Steamer brings on Cargo:
Ex 8.8. "Gibraltar from Betulal,
Ex 6.8. "Tinger" from Sotubal.
Ex 8.8. "Brundia "from Skien,
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Office,
Hongkong, 4th November, 1911.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE P. & O. B. N. Co.'s Steamer
THE
" PALAWAN,”
F1326
FROM ANTWERP, LONDON, MALTA, PORT SAID, STEZ AND STRAITS. Consignees of Cargo by the above-named ramel are hereby informed that their Geoda are being landed and placed AT THEIR RISK in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.'s Godowns at Kowloon, where anch Consign, meut will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the contrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 10th inst, at 4 P.M., will be subject to reut.
No Fire Insurance will be effested by me in any case whatever.
Damagod packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's surveyors, Mesars, Goddard and Douglas, at 10 .. OD MONDAYS And THURSDAYS. All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival hero, after which date they cannot be recognised. No Claime will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.
E. A. HEWETT, Superintendent.
Hongkong, 4th November, 1911.
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SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
GOTHENBURG.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
THE
***PEKING," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stated at their riskiste the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whorf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goode have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th inst, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th inst., at 9.30 A.M.
All Claims must reach us before the 13th
ingt, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
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cuse, there is work for 10,000 people if they could be put at it. What I have said about Anhui applies equally to North Kiangen.
I have beon in dlage, aontract with H. E.. The following speech by Mr. C. D. Jameson, President of the Kiangsa Provincial Assembly, Chang Chien, who, as you all doubtless know, is -who has been sent to China by the American Red Cross Socisty to survey the Famine Dis- Pking, H. E. Sheng Kung pao stated that and lives at Tungchow. When I arrived in trict, sud report on the possibility of Famine Mr. Chang Chian was very much interested in Prevention in the Hwai Valley, was made sta this conservancy work, and would be made the meeting of the Executive Committee, held in head the Committes Rooms, 16 Kinking Road,ad of this work in order to sea it carried Shanghai,on October 27, 1911:
out. Mr. Chang Chien, some soven- от eight years ago, realized the necessity of having a survey made of the river in done there. He then employed Japanese on- North Kengan if any work was to be
POSSIBILITY OF PREVENTION.
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen-
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OLD VAT
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This vat was started by the late Robert Thorn of Greenock and has been sold as No, 4 since 1931
by which the country could be drained, and all ordinary floods done away with
I do not exactly know what you want to be told about my trip. I have been on a recon- maissance through the Aubui and Kisage floodinger at Tungabow, and salected, by competi
titive examination first, and afterwards hyper- qual selection from those who had passed the examination, forty Chinesa bays, who studied Now, io go into technical details of what surveying from two to five years under this ought to be done up there, I do not think this Taugehow. They were put on the work of mak Japanese engineer in the Normal School at meeting is the place for an engineering report, ing surveys, and have been surveying for about nor am I yet ready to make such a report. I will merely any this, in regard to the cougar woyears. In North Kiangsu they have sur. vancy of the rivers and the preventing of floods eyed about 1,200 miles in all. I speak of this in that region: there is no reason why they do not pretend to be engineers; they are because their work is most excellent. They should not be done exception, of course,
with ent
entirely, with the abnormal feeds which Bot: ther are surveyors, and do their work nothing of man's building could hold back, well. Thirty-seven of them CRIO to Mind you, the area covers 3000 square miles meet me at Taingiangpa, and toy are the of land, and the expense would to normons; I have so far seen in China. Every one
i greatsel monument to any one man's work that bat the amount of land molaimed would alan be
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Chiness; there is not a foreigner amongst them.
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WORK OR RELIEF.
ment is a question of a number of years, and- nothing that can be done now, as fares your Comers of Kangsu, and what ought to be done
concerned, would in any way affect the there, than Mr. Chang Chien, nitimate result in river conservation, as the
I am going back into that district, and shall work is too large for anything the Committee could do to be of much assistance. In North stay there a uumber of months, and if there is Anhui and North Kiangan there is any quan anything I can do to help start your work tity of work to be done in repairing and building.
ling there for the suffering people, so that they up the dykes, roads, eto. This work would feed may earn what relief they get and not all the famine sufferers through that part of the receito charity, I shall Te delighted to country, and would not affect the general scheme de it, and will put as much time as pos of draining the whole region; but every dollar sible into it. There is one thing you will would be well spent. The Government has sout Gud: if matters are arrange) so that everyone me mones in such repaire, everything is simply who receives relief has to work for it instead of going to rack and ruin. If auch work were or getting it for nothing, two-thirds of the prosent ganized, there is no place but would provide work sufferers will not suffer any longer. There are for the feming suferers, which would de good to great many beggars and loafers. The cropa the districts in which such work was done.
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STAFF CHANGES IN INDIA.
A considerable number of changes, the milit faking place in India on the Headquarters and tary correspondent of a London paper says, are Command staffs, and after the Durbar the Com mander-in-Chief will have with him almost These will include now appointments as Chief В дет staff of heads of Departments of the General Blaff, as Adjutant. General and a Quartermaster-General, all additional to the changes at the head of branches which have taken place this year. As already announced, Lieut enant-General Sir Perey Liske became Chief of the General Staff, and an officer of the British Etablishment is to be chosen as Adjutant Gezer-
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VESSELS EXPECTED.
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THE AMERIDAN MAIL. The P. M. 8.8. Co. str. Chine ie due to arrive at Hongkong to-morrow between 5 and 8
a.M.
The P. M. S.S. Co. str. Manchuria from Son Francisco was dispatel ed from Yokohors on the 4th inst en route to Hongkong, and is âne
arrive at Hongkong on the 17th inst
to
The T.K.K. str. Chiyo Maru sailed from Honolulu on the 31st nlt. for Hongkong, and is due to arrive at this port on or about the 21st. inst.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL..
Major-General G. C. Kitson, the Quarter master-General, is to be given the command head of his Brazol. Another officer who is to last, at 9s.m., and may be expected here on or of a Division, thus making the vacancy at the
J The IO.M. str. Coblenz loft Yap on the 5th obtain command of a Division is Major-General
The E. & A. str. Fostern left Sydney on the
The NY.K. str. Nikko Maru. (Australian
As to the necessity of work in the famine re- gion, I do not thick any of you have su ides of the condition of the people in that district-of their utter wretchedness. It is not scate suffering, at prevent, which comes as the immediate resalt of brough that country Last year at this lima beadquarters at Kasauli. He has done much lat inst. for this port (via Queensland Poris,
As regards graio, there are no supplies. Pilcher, of the Serhind Brigade, with about the 13th inst am. flood. They have had no floods to speak of, this grain cost forty cash, where this year it costs reful training work in luis present command and and Manila, year; but they have bad foods for three years;
eighty
Every single placo
at Aldershot. The brigade Freeney at Kasauli they have had no crops and are utterly dis goes to the price of grain has been increased will be filled by the selection of Major-General Line) Jett Bydney for this port via poris on the conraged. They have sufficient food to last, from eighty to 100 per cent. This will give December, and Major General A. Wilson is to 3. M. 8. Brunker, who will leave for India iz perhaps, nutil February next, but they have no
you some idea of the necessity fer relief. Beed to plant, and no animals to do their plough officials were rather opposed to work being done Maiofher charges it is understood that
Before the present political crisis, the Chinese obtain command of the Lucknow Brigade ly the famine sufferers under the direction of Gurkha Rides, will be Military Secretary in H. F. Bateman-Champain, of the 9th the missionaries. There has been certain work Madras, and Captains C. A. J. Annesley and staried ou the Hysi River- work which would
ing with; and his condition of faire has gone on for so long that they have lost all desite for work they simply want to lie down insho mud *nd die.
Take the 150 miles which I traversed soross. Adhni in carte, going from Pochow to Ssuchow in the whole of This 150 zailes which I made on
on
a
to carry
A
1st inst., and is expooled bors on the 20th inst.
THE CANADIAN MAIL.
of call), on the 25th ultimo p.m. Vancouver, R.C., for Hongkong (vis usual ports The C.P.R. Co.'s str. Empress of Japan Inft.
:
THE ENGLISH MAIL.
The P0. 9. N. Co.'s str. Della left
have had some Telte if Bnished; but this could, Vaux will be Aidos-de-Camp to the not be done without the permission of the Governor, Sir Thomas Carmichael, Colonel authorities, and they turned it down. As regards H. Lach becoma Assistant-Qarformaster Singe pore for this port on the 4th inst., at 5 General at Lucknow. In all probability Lien pm, with the outward English Mails, and is tenant Colonel B. Helloway, 29a5cers dus here on the 9th inst, at about 5p.m.... (Deccau Horse). will be appointed Deputy. Secretary of the Army Department.
REPORTED COAL DISCOVERIES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA:
in
THE INDIAN MAIL.
A. reorganisation of the Artillery Commandi The Indo-Chinn str. Namsang left Singapore- in India will shortly take effect. The appoint for Hongkong on the let inst. p m., and is due ments of Inspector-eneral of Cost Defence here to-day.
and Garrison Artillery and two Inspectors of The Indo-China sir. Laiasug left Calcutta Artillery will be abolished. In their place will for the Straits and Hongkong on the 27th alt., be created an Inspector of Royal Horse and and is duo here on or about the 13th inst. The Lahore, Meerut, and Lucknow Divisions and six Artillery Commanders with divisions. Royal Field Artillery at Army headquarters,
MERCHANT STEAMERS,
the main toad, I never met one angle cart the work of your Carmittee, if it has to go carrying produce of any kind, or any through the ordinary channels you will not be people. I did not meet a single man able to do anything. What is wanted is per- pony, and mot less then afty mission from the Powers-that-be to proceed with wheelbarrows carrying freight: a few carried the work. pears and hemp, which was all they had There were people walking on either side of the roadway, coming and
few years ago, the beggars, and all starving. These were all majority of them had been successful farmers,
The following telegrim wos received but now they have absolutely nothing. There British Columbia, in reply to some questions London from the Minister of Mines for was not a dry that I did not pase two or three bodies of men, women and children lying on the addressed to him by the Aent-General of the road. When the people got tired and paro upImmence body (of) anthracite cral exists (at retts Divisions will also share one. The day.
Colony: they simply dropped down where they were and died they did not even go to the raised track the) bead waters of the) Skeens, about 150 other divisions will have ons aach. It is prob
The N.Y.K. str. Ceylon Maru (Bombay Line) alle that consideration will be given to estab-left Singapore for this port on the 31st alt., and on the side, but dropped in the read, where they miles north (of) Hezelten (There are) locations lay
it of eight years' standing. Serious develop Rishing the Cavalry sef on similar lines.
is expected here to-day, "In one of the walled cities, while walking went by three companies (bas been carried out)
The Dodwell New York Line str. Erroll loft round the wall one morning, just after sunrise, Geological Furvey and later of Crow's Nest, re
this seron. Je mes McEvoy, formerly (of the)
Moji on the 2nd instant for Hongkong, and i I came across the emaciated body of a young boy,
therefore due hero this morning. five or six years old: a fine boy. His throat Teria that be) has developed at least three had been ent from corre esx, and a piece of paper (is) very important; (ite) extent not yet known. workable seams (of) anthracite coel. (The) fold was pinned on him which stated that his father and mother had nothing to give him to rat, and
unburied.
will have no of the latter, and the Mhow and on the 30th it., and may be expected here-to- The dr. Copri left Singapore for this port
RAILWAYS IN FORMOSA.
There are now altogether 3,083 miles of rail- The NY.K. st. Miyazaki Maru (European wey in the island of Formors. The Government Line) Ift Singapore for this port on the 2nd owa 273 miles of line, private owners 350 miles inst, and is expected hayo to-day,
The NYK str. Ji sen Maru. (Celentte
the obildren of the village were standing aroandur hundred square miles hays been staked of railways, and 450 miles of push-car lines.
one
were
The Imperial Taiwan Railway is to be altered left Fingapore for this port on the 2nd inst.,
The str. Indrancadí left. Singapore on the 3rd inrt, and is due here on or about the 9th inst. p.m. CATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS. Middlesbro and London, loft Singapore on the The "Ben" Line str. Benledi. from Leith,
2nd just, for this fort. The I.G.M. sir, Boon left Colombo on the
The Park Line str. Orterie from Vancouver
lecking at the corpse. The effect this sort of A large party of mining engineers, it appears, to standard gauge this year, und part the and is expected here to-day. thing is having on the children of that region has spent the entire sommer on the watersheds line double-tracked Forty-three miles of rail. The A. A 8.9. Co.'s sir. Indrawadi left is that they are growing up beggars, if they do at the head of the Bkeenn, Stikine, Year; Elsp-way are being built in the lower part of the Habang for Singapore on the 25th ult., and is not die. Their fathers and brothers are either an, and Eagle Rivers As the result of their island, which will open up on immense forest dus here to-morrow. dying, begging or robling. The schools through Inbours, it is stated that good coal peans are aren, and is expected to result in the develop that section are all closed, and the children are known to underlie over 2,100 square miles of ment of a large limber export trade. getting no education; they are simply becoming territory, and that the estimated capacity of the beggars, with
no object in life, and at confeld lies along the 57th paralled and is feld 43.000.000 tons Square mile. This
rob. In these strong enough are beginning to
thres place, ia
weeks, only 100 to 150 miles away from the serboard.
The thirty men
e commercial importance of the reported executed for robbery discoveries will basps rociated when it is pointed 5th inst. a.m., and may be expected here on or The magistrates have military power, and about-d criminals 500 soldiers each, so they can execute their own out that owing to the geographical position of about the 16th iust, am
the coal beds they will command the markete of The Yokobuma office of the CPR Co is in Biberin, China, and Japan, as well as all the receipt of a wireless message from the R.M.B. region where work could not be done Small From a strategic point of view the new die 3rd inst, when the vessel was 1.340 miles dis There is not a single city or village in that American trade from Patogenin to Alaska. Empress of Japan, sext at 7 pm, on Friday, the canals for draining could be dug out; the walls coveries are of great importance, or fleets in the tant from Japan, advising al well and that the of the cities which are falling down could be fadife will be able to obtain the necessary sup. Commander expects to ranch Yokohama at 7 repaired or rebuilt; bridges which are falling lies of smokeless coal in war time, when it am on Wednesday, the 8th inst down could be fixed up, and the upper reachen might to impossible to ship coal through the of the rivers could be cleaned out. In stery Soca or Panaina Cavals.
WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.
The 1.6.M. str. Print Bilal Friedrich, which left here on the 1st inst, at 1 pm, arrived at Singapore on the 5th inst., st 9 s.20.
arrived at Tokohama on the lat inst. en route fer Hongkong, and is due here on the 14th
instant.
The OPK, sir. Secttle Moru frem Tacoma lease again for this port via Manila on the 3rd grved it Yokoboms on the 31st inst, and will ins and is dus here on or about the 20th inst.
be T.K.K. siz, Fengkena Maru sailed from Honolulu on the 25th oltimo for Hongkong, and in expected to arrive at this port on or about the 27th fast.