NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
KORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES."
T
HE Bionship
"COBLENZ,”
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 1913.
FOREIGN SOLDIERS IN THE
on
BRITISH ARMY.
Captain C. T. Atkinson (Oxford Univer- sity Officers Training Corps) read a paper the foreign element in the British Army at the Royal United Service Institu tion. In the course of a historical survey, keving arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby covering the period 1793-1815, the reader informed that their Goods, with the exception of the paper recalled the fact that the of Opium, Trensure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the hazardrops led by Wellington to soineny us and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the victories in the Peninsular War were nol Hongkong, and Kowloon Wharf und Godown by any means exclusively British, as that Company, Ltd., Kowloon, and West Point
army. included five foreign cavalry rogi- Godórns, whence delivery may be obtained,
Optional Cargo will be forwarded or unless nents out of twenty-five and ten infantry But the idmation is received from the Consignoes battalions out of eighty-five. Daforo Noor To-day requesting it to be landed
British forces were not nearly 50 cosmopolitan as the French. Among the troops led by Napoleon in the Peninsula were Poles, Italians, Dutchmen, and Swiss, as well as regiments from every quarter of Germany. Of the half million men who invaded Russia in 1812 only about one-third were native Frenchmen. The foreign troops so frequently employed in
Bre
No Cinims will be admitted after the Goods baco leit the Godowns, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 16th Dec. will be subject
lo rant.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godewis, where they will be examined on the 16th Dec, at 9.30 AM,
All Claims must reach us before the 23rd Dec, or they will not be recognized,
No Firo Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undoraigned.
NORDDEUTSCHES LLOYD,
MELCHERS & Co.,
General Agente [4
Hongkong, 9th December, 1913.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
HE Steamship
"BOELOW,"
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opinus, Treasure and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the Fazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Gedowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on uutesz istimation is received from the Consignees before NooN TO-DAY requesting it to be
lauded hore.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goode have left the Godowne, and all goods remaining undelivered after the 18th insf, will be subjeci
the Eighteenth Century were. only
Auxiliaries called in for constantly, recurring "temporary emergencies," and did not actually form part of the British
EMPIRE APPEAL COURT.
LORD. HALDANE AND CLAIMS OF THE DOMINIONS.
'THE KING'S "BUPREMACY,
Speaking at University College, Lon- don on November 4th, the Lord
meda
interesting Chancellor remarks on the judicial changes which would be entailed by the Home Rule Billi if 'passed, and on the establishment of that Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as a movable Imperial Court of. Appeal.
Helad had occasion to give a
a good deal' of thought to these subjects, and not the
to
less because at present be happened to he president of the judicial establishmentss both in the House of Lords and the Prive Council, and the other day, when he was in Canada, he was struck with the feeling give an authoritative opinion, that if any among those who were best competent to change took place, at all events they dit not want to appeal to some now Court! outside the dominions. It was easy talk about. an Imperial Court of Appeal, but it was not easy to define in a way which did not trench on the just claim of the dominions across the seas to be self-contained. What they said was that they valued the appeal to the King in Council very much, and that if anything judicial Was to be done to alter the
and tho form of the Court appoat would not be vari
varied. He thought that was a very pregnant observation, and probably one which all the self-governing It meant that dominions would make.
SHIPPING
IN PORT.
STKAMELS.
ANGHIN, German str., 1,934, D. Cordes 11th December-Hongay 8th Decem hor, Coal. Jardine, Matheson & Co. BANKI MARU, Japanese str., 9,017,
Soga, 13th December-Sourabaya 29th November, Sugar-Dodwell & Co. BOGARIN, Russian str., 960, J. Baiding, 14th December-Bangkok 3rd Decex- bor, Rice.-Thoresen & Co. CarLON MARU, Japanese str., 3,149, Nogu- chi, 11th December-Moji 7th Deom- ber, General-Nippon. Yusen Kaisha. 12th December-Bangkok 1st December, CHINKANU, British str., 1,228, G. 1. Ainslie,
fico-Chincao.
CHILDA, Norwegian str., 1,102, H.
VESSELS EXPECTED..
THE AMERICAN MAIL The PM. str. Chine left Yokoliana on the 12th December, at noon, for Hongkong The United States mails viu Munila. have been transferred to an N.Y.K. str. scheduled to arrive at Hongkong on the
1st December:
THE AUSTRALIAN MALL.
The LG.M. str. Prinz Sigismund loft Sydney on the 13th December, at 11 a.m., and may be expected hero on or alat the 5th January..
THE ENGLISH MAIL.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 15th at 11.40 p.m.-Tho depression is pasing into the Pacific.
The anti-cyclone has moved north east warð,“ leaving an area of low pressure over S.E. Chino. Changes in the South are small,
Light or variable winds are indiosted along the south-onst coast of China, and moderato
on over the N. China S.. Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours onding at 10a.m. to-day, 0.01 inches.
The forconst for the 24 hours ending at noon today is as follows:-
DISTRICT.
The P. & O. str. Himalaja left. Singa pore for this part on the 13th December, atam, with the outwardd English oils, about 10 am.. and is duo here on the 18th December, nilongkong & Neighbourhood-
THE CARARIAN MAIL Tho C.P.R. Br. Empress of asia 'left' Yokohama on be 12th December; between
Nielson, 14th December-Bangkok 4th December, Rice.--Aagaard, Thoreson 2 and 4 p.m.
Co.
MERCHANT STEAMERS. Cusachow, British str., 1,904, Doyle, The P. & O. str. Barnes left Singapore 13th December-Kwang Yen 10th for this port on the 10th December, ab December, Cement Stone--Shewan, (7 m., and is due here on the 16th Decem- Tomes & Co.
ber, at about 8 a.m.
CHINHUA British sor. 1,353, Finlayson, 12th December-Manila 0th December, General-Butterfield & Swire.
COBLENZ, Gorman str., 3,130, L. Klugkist, 9th December-Sydney 15th Novem bor, GeneralMelchers & Co.
The N.V.K. str. Miyazaki. Marn (Euro- pean Line) left Singapore for this port On the 11th December, and is expected here;
The N.Y.K. str. Penang Maru (Bombay Line) left Bombay for this port via the 30th Noveraber, and is Singapore on
on
the 17th December, am.
Army, but there was one regiment on the gement they hoped that the founda DAITEN MARU Japanese str., 2,824, Wexpected here on tho 18th December.
permanent establishment of King George 111s Army which was mainly recruited from foreign sources. This was the Farous 60th Regiment, raised as the Royal Americans in 1756 among the Swiss and German settlers in Pennsylvania and the Carolinas In 1795 the Goth had four battalions, the rank and file being mainly British. though, as the services of the reginent were confined by statute to America and the West Indies, the practice group of drafting into it recaptured deserters and men sentenced by court partial, who commuted their sentences by serving in the unhealthy climate. On the outbreak of the Great War only some twenty squadrons of cavalry and half &
14
the dominions did not want to appeal to any Court cutside themselves, and they regarded the King in Council as some. thing not outside themslves.
THE SECOND CHAMBER.
Nakagawa, 14th December--Samarang, Sugar-A Bune & Co. DILWARA, British str., 3,460, G.
N.
Kamage, N., 10th December Moji 6th December, Coal and General, -David Sassoon & Co. FUKURA MARU Japanese str., 3,139,
Gole, 11th December-Wakamatsu 3rd December, Coal. Mitsui Buasan Kaisha.
Geonai, Russian str, 776, O. Sol, 12th
9th DecemberHongay
December, Cont-Siomssen & Co.
14th December--Swatow 13th Decem- HAITAN, British str., 1,182, J. R. Ruaci, ber, General-Douglas Lapraik & Co. 12th December-Kebao 9th December, Coal-Butterfield & Swire HANGSANO, British str. 1,356, S. Wilde,
Benimmers, from The Ben Line sbr. Antwerp, Middlesbro' and London, left Singapore for this port on the 11th December, and may be expected to arrive here on or about 18th December.
Formosa Channol
FORECAST.
[E. winds, mo dorate; cloudy Bodo rain.
Variable winds, ***Equally. South coast of Chins between / The same
Hongkong and Lamoska 1 South coast of Chius between (The same na
No. 1. Hongkong and Hainou
09
No. 1.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER.
15TH DECEMBER, 1913, AM,
Station.
The Swedish East Asiatic Co.'s str. Nemur Beylon left Bingapore on the 12th Decom- Hakodate ...... her and is expected to arrive here on the Tokico
19th December
Kochi The NYK str. Kanagawa Maru Nagasaki (Calcutta Line) loft Calcutta for this port Kagoshima via ports on the ist December, and is Oshima... expected here on the 20th December.
Wind
Vladvestock...
7.30.60
***** 68,29.67
#30,15
NW
.30.22
30.37
NNW
BW
30.31
3027)
NE
30.20
*AW
30.13
ESE
30.07
ISE
30.20
30.43 31 90
Naba
"Well now," proccded the Lord Chancellor, "both" parties in the State agree that the second chamber as it exists at the present time must be reformed, aid in a fashier that will make it impossible for it to be the supreme Appellate Court for England and Scot comes we shall have to find a new form Great be scraped together to Britain's contribution to the land forces Appellate Court. What can that be? I of the First Confition, and in this am not speaking for anyone but myself and I am not commisting myself-but entergency Pitt and Dundas again had I have the impression that you will find recourse to the practice of hiring for that it will work out so that presntly we olgners to do the work which the citizens will have to think of it in this way-that of Great Britain were unwilling or the great link of the Empire which the All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are unprepared to de. The 62,000 subsidised, judicial functions of the King in bis will be further to he left in the Godowns, where they will be Prussians whom Pitt thought he bad Council represents, examined on the 18th inst, at 9.30.
all Claims must reach us before the 25th secured for the defence of the Netherlands developed, and that all appeals, whether in 1794, never did anything to earn the. From countries forming parts of the King's inst, or they will not be recognized.
noney spent upon them. Strictly speak Dominions outside these islands, or from the No Fire Insurance will be effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the ing, these t.cops, though supported out these islands themselves, will be to
of British funds, were not in British pay, King in Council just as it has been Undersigned,
still less part of the British Army. Great proposed with Irish appeals in the Home Britain did not as a rule deal direct with Rule Dill. the troops she subsidised, but with the monarchs and their ministers, this form of paying oilers to fight one's
dozen weak battalions of infantry could lant and Ireland, and that when that HANYANG, British str., 1,207, J. Cogan, United Kingdom, left Singapore on the Kinking
to rent.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLord,
MELCHERS & Co.,
General Agents Hongkong. 11th Decomber, 1913.
(4
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY'S BOYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
R.M.S. EMPRESS OF JAPAN." HEabove-mentioned Steamer having arrived
Hence
18th December-Swatow 12th Decem ber, General-Jardino, Matheson & Cu.
HALVARD; Norwegian str., 1,086, C. Beck, 12h
December-Samarang 1st. Dec., Sugu Java-Chins-Japan Lijn.. HARUNASAN MARU, Japanese str., 2,191, Gillespie, 11th December-Mororan 30th November, Coal-Mitsui Bussan Kaisha.
Hour.
Ses Lovel
Temperature. Baromoter
Hvanidity.
Dinction
Готов.
THATE LIMITEM*| Weather.
The American and Manchurian Line Ishijma October, and is due here on or about the Chefoo
Weihaiwei str. Kandalur left New York on the 25th Benin Is. 30th December.
Bankow The Mogul Line str. Ghazet, from
Ichang 19th December; am and is therefore duc Changshan here on or about the 20th December.
The N..K, str. Yokohama Maru Gutalatt (American Line) left. Kobe for this port via ports on the 12th December, and is Amoy expected here on the 21st December.
The N.Y.K. str. Hakata Maru (Calcutta) Taiboko....... 5B, 30.01 Line) left Yokohama for this port via Taicha...... ports on the 13th Decomber, and is ex- Tainan ....... pected here on the 26th December,
Shanghai....... Sharp
30.09 52 30.07.
6 30.03 62 182
Pesk...7, 30.35
S#atof--རཿ ཟ བཱ ཀ
Koshua .........
The Danish str. Tranquebar left Port Pescadores Said on the 6th December, and may be Canton expected here on or about 91st December. Hongkong
The N.V. K. str. Kitano Maru (Euro) Gap Rook.....
Wuobow pean Line) left London for this port via Macao ports on the 22nd Novembor, and is ex-
Hoihow Pakhoi
The NY.K. ale. Kirin Maru (Calcutta
battles was a constant source of trouble change, will be one of form rather than HONG WAN I, British etr, 2,080, J. Mason. ports on the 12th December, and is cx Capo St. James
December-Hoihow 11th December, HELENE, German str., 771, J. Jessen, 19th
General Jardine, Matheson & Co. "That will involve a certain change.
work will be far too great for the HONG BEE, British str., 2,056, G. King, horn, 10th December-Singapors and Judicial Committee as a *present
December, General.-Chinese. As a matter of fact the constituted.
12th December-Singapore 5th Decem. ber, General-Chinese. HSINCHING Chinese atr., 1,258, F. 0. Hamblin, 12th December-Shangha 9th December, General-Chinese KARIDATE MARU Japanese str.420 Matsubara, 11th December-Miike 6th December, Coal, Mitsui Busaun Kaisha. KAIFONG, British str., 987, Mathias, 13th
and discord. The troup-producing coun- of substance, By an Act which was try did not regard the acceptance of a passed last August we have two more nibsidy as in any way impairing its right judges available for the joint service of to dispose of its own soldiers, and was the Judicial Committee of the House of by no means prepared to hand them over Lords and the Privy Council and very completely, to the Power who defrayed valuable additions these two judges are. their equipment and maintenance, Supposing that body, having still larger We paid functions to perform, were still more was the piper, but the tune played enlarged, and an Act passed enabling it called. The experiment of enlisting to sit in more divisions than one you see ar instrument we should have for prisoners of war was not always as sing the Imperial problems we have at unsatisfactory as it had proved in the hand. All appeals would be to the King Quiberon tragedy. Whest in 1795 Ceylon in Council, and would be heard by the was captured from the Dutch, a useful Judicial Committer of the Privy Council, regimeut, nearly 1,000 strong, was added but the committee, instead of sitting in to the British Army. This was de one division, as to-day, would sit in Meuron's, a Swiss Corps, which trans several places, and as the King is presi Jesred itself wholesale from the Dutch dent in each of the dominions and is This represented by his ministers, and as the service to that of Great Britain.
Privy Council is an Imperial body,
ected here on the 31st December Line) left Calcutta for this port vin Paulin
Tonerate
AparriTM pected here on the 1st January.
The NY-K. str. Au Mars (American Manils Line) left Scattle for this port via porte Legaspi on the 0th December, and is expented. Nor here on the 8th January
Bacolod The NYK. str. Pyo Maru" (European Cebu Line) left Lendon for this port via norte Labuan
on the 6th December, and is expected bere on the 14th January,-
INDO-CHINA ÉTEAM NAVIGATION 00.... LFD,
-
30.03
30.03
30.04 30.031
5.30.06 64 89 630.05 6489
30.03 30.02 65-
9.04
6.30.01 66 | ***
129.89 75
29.98
BNE Bw
29.93
29.39
NNA
9.29.91
NW
期
129.86 83
EN,
T. F. ÚLAXTON, Dircetur.
1 BAROMETER, rodnood to 32. dogrose Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in izohion, tenths and hundredtha, abrenheit,
2 TEMPERATURE, in the shade, in degross
Tfrom VANCOUVER, VICTORIA and JAPAN FORTS, Consignees of Cargo are brereby notified that their Goode, with the exception of Parcels, Tressure and Valashles, are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Ga., Ltd., Kowloou or West Point Godowns, where delivery can be obtained.
Goods on hand after the 22nd Dec. will be subject to reut.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. All damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns and this Office notified, when arrangeableman, M. de Meuren, who in Novern containing the Chief Justices in the AJELD, Norwegian str., 910, F. Kellen Monmouthshire, from London, is due in rain, a snow, thunder, v visibility, wdow (wat)
mente will be made for examination.
}
regiment was the property of a Swiss
No Cinims will be admitted after the Goods, 1799, was awarded £50,000 on account different parts of the Empire, you have
have loft the Godovas.
(1429
D. W. CRADDOCK,
General Tras Agent. Honkong. 15th Dechmber, 1913,
CHILDREN
OF FAR CATHAY.
A BUGIAL AND POLITICAL NOVEL OF
ABSORBING INTEREST,
By CHAS. J. HALCOMBE, Formerly of the Imperial Chinese Customs Service, Author of "The Mystic Flowery Land," eta
IMPERIAL PRIVY COUNCIL.
50mg
as
us
13th December-Haiphong 10th Decem- bor, Rice and General.-Butterfield & Swire. KATTO MARU, Japanese str., 1,200, Y. Yana- moto, 13th December--Foochow, Amoy and Swatow 12th December, General Osaki Shosen Kaisha. KESUN, British str., 9,067, Callester, 12th Decem bor- Singapore 7th Doo, General
Butterfield & Swire.
12th December-Bangkok th Novou. ber, Rice and Generangsar, Thoresen & Co.
December, Know, British str., 1,450, Martin, 12th
December Java 2nd Bugar.-Chinese,
Liz, Japanese str., 4,075, K. Sugawa, 8th December-Kobe 4th December, Gen- MONADNOCK, British str., 2,791, W. Wilson, 19th December Kobe 8th December, General Jardine, Matheson & Co. MUNCASTER CASTLE, British str., 3050 L. A. McDonald, 5th December- Keelung 4th December, General Dodwell & Co. NAMSANG, British str. 2,591, P. M. B. Lake, 12th December--Calcutta sth November, General-Jardino, Matho- son & Co. MINGPO, British str. 1,418, Pickard, 8th 6th December, December Hongay Coal Butterfield & Swird. rowA MARU, Japanese str.,, 1,471, Hotonaich, 12th December-Keeling 9th December, General.-Osaka Shosen Krisht
of services rendered by him in Ceylon, got at once a Court which does not offend which the self-governing. and he seems to have been paid a subsidy the canon of £3,000 annually as long as the regiment dominions set up, that the Supreme Court remained in our service. For the first ten! should not be outside themselves, years of its existence it was in India,: being maintained by the East India Con-
"It would be an appeal to the King in pany at an annual cost of $33,000. I did
eral-Order. Privy Council, which is as much localised good service there, sharing in the storming in the donmions as it is reclined
Seringapatum in 1799, and we had London at home. The imperiai Privy
to its neris, Council is a real Imperial body, and if; Wellington's testimony though he adds that the natives of India it could sit in more divisions than 006. ruver regarded the regiment with the then I ace ready solution of the respeel with which they looked on British problems vexing the mjuds, from time to icorps, for knowing that its men were not time, of my statesmen. Supposing we British by nationality, they believed them had a boundary case out in Canada, what to be purchased slaves. Anuther regiment would be more casy than to export some with an even more distinguished record members from London to go and sid than de Meuron's was added to the British a King's Imperial Privy Council Com Arm in the same way. When in 1799 mittee in Canada and deal with these You might call in Charles Stuart captured Minoroa, there things on the spot? were among the prisoners over a thousand the assistance of the Australian Chief Swiss who had hers taken by the French Justice, just as lately we have been TELEE VOLUME, which consists or 461
making
development in from the Austrians in Italy, and had
that Pagra, and includes a Sketch Plan literally been sold to the Spaniards Commonwealth has been sitting with
The Chief Justice of the direction. historical interest showing the disposi dollars a head. Out of these men a tion of the Forces at the battle of Kweilio, attalion was formed, erig ually called bearing appeal from various parts of
HART,
the is dedicated to Bir ROBERT
Empire
The Chief Justice of the Stuart's. after its colonel, or the Minorea Union of South Africa has been sitting G.C.N.G., and Dr. A BENNIE
Social Regiment. In Abercromby's victory TOĽ Ita description of Chinese Customs and Superstitions, combined Alexandria it did really well, standing in the House of Lords hearing Scotch suited, because the Roman-Dutch law of It had South Africa resembles the Scotch law onditions in China, makes "CHILDE gallant style and repulsing them CT FAR CATHAY
"I want to impress upon you that in an excellent volums forever 200 casualties, and one of its men
most valuable received a special reward for his gallant this matter you have presentation to friends at Home.
conduct and capture of a French colour, instrument at hand, which, if that clear In recognition of its good conduct the policy is kept in view, and a very little regiment was honoured in 1802 with the development is made, will solve all these tile of the "Queen's Germans." Placed problems and give us one of the greatest in the Line as the 57th Foot in 1804, the tribunals and one of the greatest infring regiment was renumbered as the 90th in influences to hold the Empire together 1816, when the Rifle Brigade were taken which it is possible to conceive. We have out of the Line, and was disbanded in not to construct it; it is there, and we 1618; but when the present 2nd Man have, only to develop it and, speaking chesters then the 60th, were raised in for myself, I think the reform of trang 1820, they claimed to be a revival rather ferring appeals to the King in Council, Fhan a new corps, and the subsequent and enabling the Judicial Committe to grant to the Egyptian and Peninsula sit in more than one division so that it
place, but may inove from time to time! the open to ouvillings from sticklers for through the Empire, would be
legitimism, did at least preserve some stop in the solution of the problem of mereory of a gallant corps with deserved Imperial unification
PAKLAT, German str., 1,018, J. Wenzel, 11th December Saigon 5th December, Rice-Butterfold & Swire.
Taishing, from Singapore, is due in
Hongkong 18th December Pautang, from Pasofoeran, is due in
Hongkong 21st December:
3 HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturation, the Ong, from Pasoloerau, is due in Hong-huidity of air saturated with moisture boins 10.
kong 23rd December.. Merionethshire, passed Canni, is due in
Hongkong 20th December.
SHINE LINE, LIMITED.
Hongkong 25th December.
en of Glamis, from Seattle, is dus in
Hongkong 28th December."
koug 3rd January Solveig, from Seattle, is due in Hong-
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The CP.R. str. Monteagle left Van- user on the 11th December, p.m. The C.P.R. str. Emprees of Xuerin was 230 miles from Yokohama at 8 p.m. on the 13th was due at Yokohama at 3 p.m. on the 16th and will leave at 2 p.m. on the 17 December.
The IG.M. str.. Forck, which left hero in the 10th December, arrived at Singu Pore on the 14th December, at 1 p.m.
The T.K. K. str. Chiyo Maru, which left San Francisco on the 19th November, is expected to arrive at this port via Honolulu. Japan Ports and Shanghui on the 16th December, between 2 and 4 p.m.
The II.A.L. str. Jcanara loft Manila on the 14th December, p.ri., and may be xpected here on or about the 17th Decem her,
The ILA.L. str. Brasilia left Shangbai on the 15th December, a.m., and may be expected here on or about the 18th Decem
ber, um
with the insight it gives into political up to the charges of the French cavalry in appeals, a work for which he is wall! PITSANULOK, German str., 1,267, W. Tau The P. & 'Q. str. 'Nyanca is expected to
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ON SALE.
bert, 14th December Bangkok pth December, Rice and Wood, Butter field & Swire, PRONTO, Norwegian str. 787, The Leeberg,
13th December Bangkok 5th Dec Rice. RAJAH, Gernan str., 1,275, C. Rastofsky, 13th December-Sandakan 6th Dec, Timber -Mcléhers & Ca
SADD MANU, Japanese str. 6,227, K.
Asakawa,, 8th December Seattle 4 November, General-Nippon Yusen Kaisha
SANSUI, British str., 998, F. Bucking, 14th.
December-Bangkok 4th December,! Rice. Butterfield & Swire.
DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points,
5. Fonon or Win, according to Beaufort Scale. S STATE OF WHATum, b blow sky, a detached eford, a drizzling rain, fog, g gloomy, h hail}, Hghting, o overoast, p passing showsze, q squall,
-7 RAIN zinoties, t tenth and hundredths
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, December 15th
Barometer Temperature Humidity...... Wind Direction ... Force
Weather
Rain
***
Provious On Date On Date
Day at
at at 2 p.m.6 am. 2 p.
20.10 30.05
30.02
66
64
72
72.
89
72
Bust East
East
4
3
2
*
0
0
0.01
Highest open air Temperature on 14th...67 Lowest open
sir Temperature on 14th...63
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 15th to 22nd December, 1913.
HIGH WATEE.
H'kong:
Mean
Time
Height
LOW WATHE
K'kong. Mean
ft in.
Time,
h. m. ft. in.
at dyp.m.
arrive at Colombo on the 24th December,
German mails, with dates from Berlin Wed.
The I.G.M. str. Ludzów, carrying the
on the 26th November, left Colombo On the 14th Desember, p.m.. and may be Thurs. 18 expected here on or about the 25th Decem-.
Fri. her.
b. m.
་
Тава
16
0 45 a 42
5
5 40 06
'10 248-6
3343 8
17
1 36 41
11
4188 3
2 26 a
19m 0 8
M 7 23
5:15 a 4
7. 7 m 8 18 1
3 15 4 68 6-£6 of 4 2
18
The IG.M. str. Buceland, which left here on the 12th December, at noon, arrived Batar. 20m 125 70 m 2 14 at Shanghai on the 16th December, at
19 a..
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