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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
- NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship.
T
"KLEIST," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and atered at their risk into the hazard our and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Ltd., Kowloon, and West Polut Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Carge will be forwarded on anlest intimation is received from the Consignees before NOON TO-DAY requesting it to be landed
here.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all goods remaining andelivered after the 20th Doc. will be subject to rent.
All brokes, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined or, the 20th Des., at 9.30 AM.
All Claims mat reach us before the 27th Dec, or they will not be recognized..
No Fire Insurance will be effected,
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18TH, 1912.
THE DIARY OF LI HUNG-CHANG.
(Continued from page 3.)
It is not seemly that I write of my own virtues, but it is surely the privilege and duty of every man to defend his name and character when attacked. Therefore I will say that though. I have made à com- Fortable amount of wealth from my loan gffices it has not been made by excessive interest charges. If I had been a hard man towards all those who had borrowed from my agents and were unable to pay I would today be one of the richest mor in the world.
And then, too, I have never used what wealth was graciously given me by the I have good gods for evil purposes.
bought neither honoure nor offices; I would out my face with a knife rather than accept an office or an honour by purchase.
It is true that I have loaned large sums to the provinces, and even to the Throne, but it is also true that cerinin honours" were stripped from me when the Govern- nent was must greatly in my debt. It is also true that for many years I have contributed largely to flood or drought sufferers, and it is on record at the Room of Worthy Deeds (Pekin) that during the last direful famine applied food to 1,000 families in Tientsin, to 1,000 families in other parts of Pechili and to 500 families in Shantung for more than sixteen weeks.
They tell me there is very little poverty in France, and that even the poorest peuple save a little from day to day.
PRESIDENT FAURE.
Tuesday evening.
This evening I was received by the President of the Renublic and Mme. Faure. The great halls of the President's palace were thronged with eminent people from all over France and Europe. The American Minister was there and extend- ed personally an invitation on the part of President Cleveland. I know from all I have heard, seen and learned that iny reception in America will be most agree- able. I look forward to it anxiously, especially to seeing New York and Washington and visiting Mr. Cleveland.
The French President is a quiet man, of studious, careful habits, I should think. He had learned somewhere or somehow tu speak une or two phrases in Chinese, and these he repeated at least eight times during our first meeting. Mme. Faure is a plain woman, but, I hear, of very kindly heart. She had around her at the reception a number of the most beautiful They were ladies 1 had erer ECER. duchesses, princesses, countesses and the daughters of plain politicians ar mer- chants: but they were all so charming that the title of Empress would not be too great for the majority,
What strange things do happen! One of the gentlemen standing afar off seemed familiar to me, and I found after awhile that he was almost staring at me, as if to attract my particular attention to him.
When I asked Tuso to find out who he "was the gentlener binself-came-over-and-
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the extended his hand in European fashion. Undersigned.
This steamer brings Cargo---
Ex... "Orasolo" from Venice vis Port
Said..
Ex 1.8." Barbarigo" from Venice via Port
Said
NORDDEUTICHE LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Co.,
General Agents. Hongkong, 13th December, 1912.
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Deas your Excellency remember me?" he asked in my own language.
The moment he spoke I remembered him, He was Captain Fournier, now a high official, who was the representative of France at the Tientsin treaty. I was 50 glad to see him again, for he is truly a shivalrous man and an honour to his country! I will send him a chest of tea.
"NOW WE SHALL HAVE AN ABMY," Midnight, before starting for Calais. Tuan opened and read to me a long
SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD letter from the German Kaiser a little
GOTHENBURG,
T
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"CANTON,"
while ago. It came through the German Embassy here and informis me that my request for a hundred German officers to instruct our army has been granted and that the War Office at Berlin will at once make the selections. China will pay the having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby same salaries as they would receive at informed that their Goods, with the exception
home and their exponses in addition. I od Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being bape the Throne will not think I am ex landed and stored at their risk
travagant. Anyway, the money will come the hazardous and/or Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon out of my own provincial (Pechili) funds, Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, Now we shall have an army Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
into
Barardous extra
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unless intimation is received from the Consignees before Noor TO-DAY requesting it to be landed here.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowas, and all Goods remaining andelivored after the 20th Dec. 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 20th Dec., at 9.30 A.M.
All Claims must reach us before the 25th Dee, or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.
ARTHUR NILSSON & Co., Agenta.
[40 Hongkong, 13th December, 1912.
FROM EUROPE.
THE HAL. Steamship.
THE
*SAMBIA,"
Captain F. Bath, having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the haardous and or extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence delivery may be obtained sgainst Bills-of-Lading countersigned by the Undersigned
Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice to the contrary be given Topar.
All Claims must be presented within ten day, of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th inst. will be subject
to reat.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods mue: be left in the Godowns, where they will be smamined on the 19th inst, at 9.30 A..
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in
any case whatevar
This Steamer bringe on Cargo:
Exas."t" from Stettin, Ex 8.8
k" from Betubal. Ex 8.8"
from Abus.
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↑ Eras. "Trelleborg from Abua. Ex B..." Norge from Göteborg, Ex BS. "Ta-Binge" from Copenhagen. Ex is "Kong Ring" from Christiania.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Office, Hongkong, 13th Demember, 1912.
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DOUTS ABOUT ENGLAND. Crossing the English Chanuel,
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I loft France with regret and am going to England with some misgivings.
Press, the. French read the Malin only to-day,, that the English were making fun of me when I was the guest of Germany. That is not right, for when they make fun of me it is not simply a person they are treating lightly, but the envoy of a great nation.
If they do not treat me well I shall make my sojourn very brief, for I would not linger in any house where I was not welcome.
Ten o'clock.
The weather is very rough just now and some of my party are quite sick. But I have remained un deck so that I might see England and France at about one and the same time.
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EASTERN EXTENSION, AUSTRAL- ASIA, AND CHINA TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The 78th Half-Yearly Ordinary General was held on the 12th ult at Electra Meeting of the above-named company
House, Finsbury-pavement, Sir John Wolfe Barry, K.U.B., presiding.
The General Manager and Secretary (Mr. F. E. Hesse) having read the notice convening the meeting, and other formal- business having been disposed of,
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The
The Chairman congratulated tho share- holders on the satisfactory report which the directors had been enabled to submit to them. The gross receipts for the half- year ended June 30 last amounted, in round figures, to £367,000, showing an increase over those of the corresponding period of 1911 of £38,000, This satis- factory result was due to growth of com- mercial traffic all over the company' system, and that growth bad continued since the close of the half-year. working and other ordinary expenses. during the half-year smounted, in round Egures, to £168,000, showing an increase. £15,000, of which nearly £12,000 was over the corresponding period of 1911 of accounted for by the heavier cable repairs: in the past half-year than in the June' half of 1911 and to their debiting revenue with the cost of relay and other improved apparatus. The net profit for the half- year was, roundly, £182,000, and after adding the amount brought forward thors remained an available balance of £200,000. The usual quarterly interim dividends of 2s. 6d. per share, or at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, had been paid for the past half-year and after making the usual, provision out of revenue for the maintenance, ships, insurance, and depreciation funds, and adding £75,000 to the general reserve fund, the balance carried forward amounted to £56,000,
I just heard something which sounds In view of the increase in the volume" like a dream in truth. Some wealthy of traffic between Europe and the com- Frenchmen and engineers backed by the pany's system east of India and also in Government proposes to build a tunnel their local traffic, due to commercial under these very waters upon which we activity and the continuous policy of the are sailing. Hut I also hear that the company of lowering their tariffs when English, who do not believe it is only a they were able to do so without injustice dream, will not let them have an opening to their shareholders, the directors had or their soil. Oh, those English--they're in contemplation the strengthening of afraid of everybody and everything! the company's cable capacity in the Far Yet they want to make light of me.
CHANNEL BEFLECTIONS.
The
East. The Eastern Telegraph Company We are in rough seas, and alta ugh had also under consideration important can hear the salutes of Dover Castle I ara cable improvements west of India. going to my bed for a few minutes rest, two proposals would thus form a strength That Li Hung ang had a touch of ening of the company's communications, seasickness he acknowledges with evident but, of course, they would be expensive reluctance in the last paragraph be writes Owing, however, to the existence of their! in England just before taking steamer for reserve funds and to the growth of their
traffic they could contemplate the neces New York:→→
sary expenditure, which would occupy Once more there is before me the pre-some two years or more, without any in- spect of some seven of eight days of quiet, terference with the stability of their and the thought is exceedingly pleasing ordinary dividend and bonus. The Yet there are also 3,000 miles of ocean vacancy in the directorate occasioned by Between me and New York, and they say the death of the Marquess of Taceddale that of all the great bodies of water the had been filled by the appointment of the Atlantic g the wozat in temper. All our Right. Hon. Lord Inchcape. party were seasick on the miserable little cluded by moving the adoption of the run across the English Channel with the report and accounts. exception of myself.
-Ho con-
The Chairman, in reply, to a question. stated that the experience they had had of wireless telegraphy had been that it had done their trafics no harm whatever, How far the increased development of
I felt very ill at av inwards when we were about midway across, but that was the after-effects of German food and that Potsdam beer more than any results of the ship's motion Teau. Lung and putting up Government stations would of the others chided me upon my called affect them it was impossible to say, but scasickness. but if they had been accuss he did not think they need fear the and up and down, the China Sea as many
competition, times as they would not have been sont to their state rooms by the nasty little narrow sea of the English.
The motion was unanimously adopted: and a rote of thanks to the chairman, the directors, and the staff terminated the proceedings...
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