PACIFIC MAIL S.S.CO.
OPERATING
MODERN HIGH POWERED TWIN BOREW EXPRESS STEAMERS.
MONGOLIA #7000 1989
KOREA 18000 take
CHINA 1200 tons
MANCHURIA 27030 tons
SIBERIA 18000 tons NILE 11000 E
PERSIA 9000 tone
Between Hong Kong, Manila, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu and San Francisco
"THE SUNSHIRE BELT”—The Most Comfortable Route to America and Europe
CHINA (via S'hai) Sailing WED'DAY, 12th Aug,, at Noon, TUESDAY, 18th Aug,, at 1 PIL. MANCHURIA...............
NILE (via Manila)
MONGOLIA
TUESDAY, 15th Sept, at 1 pm.
Thor steamers te famous for theie modern equipment, comfort, and the superiority of the raisine, which is under the teesanal mupervision of M., V. Maroal, the world-famous materer. Lugee staterooms, equipped with electrie fans, and runatug water. Berths equipped with electrio realeng lamps.. Numerus amnemoats-alt water swimming tank, Filiping orchesten, dock men, dades, etc.-not a dull ment throughost the trip.. The Safety and Comfort of Pavore is Our First ConsidĪBATION
For further information, cutou, kiteratur, sabedules, etc, apply to
TEL No. 141.
R. C. MORTON, AGENT,
KING'S BUILDINGS.
THE HONGBONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11mm, 1914.
150
HONGKONG, CANTON, MACAO &
WEST RIVER STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
HONGKONG-CANTON LINE
Single Fare by Night Stonor Roturn
"
(available also for return
by day steamer)
Siugle Fare by Day Steamer Returu #
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO
DESTINATIONS
PROJECTED BAILINGS FROM HONGKONG-
MAKSEILLES, LONDON_and
"ANTWERP.
AVIA SINGA. PORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,” SUEZ and PORT SAID
SUBIROT TO ALTERATION,
VICTORIA, B.O., and fS ARI MARU SEATTLE VIA EDELUNG: Capt. Noma, SHANGHAI KOJI, KOBE SADO MARU YOKKAICHI and YOKOHAMA
BIDNET and MELBOURNE, VIA MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, TOWNSVILLE and BRISBANE
9,300
ETNAMIES
TOES
and DISPLACEMENT.
HIRANO MARU
Capt. Frater,
16,000
KATORI MARD
Capt. Murni,
20,000
12,500
Capt. K. Asakaw, KUMANO MARU
Capt. K. Bogeda, TANGO MARU
Capt. Bezine, CEYLON MARD
Capt. Nagachi
9,600
$12,500 i
SAILING DATES.
WEDNESDAY, 12th- Aug., al 10 M
WEDNESDAY, 2811 Aug., at 10. A.M (THURSDAY, 13th.
Aug., at 4 P...
(TUESDAY,, 25th 12,500 Aug, st.4 P.M.
BAJWEDNESDAY, 2811
Ang, at Noon.
[WEDNESDAY, 25eð
Sept., at Noon (SATURDAY, 22nd Aug.
COLOMBO MARU
Capt, rakamoto,
SHANGHAI, KOBE and
YOKOHAMA
MONDAY. Ang. RANGOON MARU WEDNESDAY 126
Capt. Kamachita, 12,500 i August, KANAGAWA MARU FRIDAY,
Capt. TozerS
125001 Aug.
17th
5,000
14th
Capt. Bokine,
Capt. M. Yagi, KASHIMA MARU
CALCUTTA VIA SINGAPORE PENANG and RANGOON...
BOMBAY TIR SINGAPORE,
and COLOMBO....
MOJI and KOBE...
NAGASAKI, KOBE and♫ TANGO MARU
YOKOHAMA
KOBE and YOKOHAMA ...
́§ Fitted with New System of Wireless Telegraphy,
[TUESDAY, 2511 9,600 Aug., at SP.M..
(WEDNESDAY, 12to 20,000 1 Ang, at 11 am.
Cargo only.
REDUCED SUMMER RATES
BETWEEN
HONGKONG AND JAPAN PORTS.
SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS (1st and 2nd Class), available for 3 Maniku Commencing from 1st June, ending 30th September, 1913,
YOKOHAMA-
Retura.
$6.00
10.00
1st Class 2nd
$135 881
1.00.
8.00
The attention of the travelling Public is drawn to the comfort afforded by the Com- panier vessels, Passengers arriving by Night steamers from Canton (due at Hongkong about 11 p.m.) are permitted to sleep on board till next morning without extra charge. Electric fans and electric light are available all night.
HONGKONG TO CANTON, I CANTON TO HONGKONG. TUESDAY, 11TM AUGUST, 1914.
8, HONAM.
5 p.m. FATSHAN.
8 a.m. HEUNGSHAN.
5. p.m. HINSHAN
WEDNESDAY, 12TH AUGUST, 1914.
8 a.m. HEUNGSHAN, T
5 pm. KINSHAN.
8.D. HONAM.
5. p.m. PATSHAN.
HONGKONG MACAO LINE
8.8. SVI TAI, Tone 1,651.
5.6. TAISHAN, Tozs 2,006 HONGKONG TO MACAO Week days at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. from the Company's Wing Lak Street Wharf, Baadays at 9 am, and 12.30 pm, from the Company's Wing Lok Street Whart.
MACAO TO. HONGKONG.
"
Weeks days at 7.30 am. and 2 p.m. Sondays at 7.30 s.m, and: 2 p.m
EXCURSION
TO MACAO.
SUNDAY, 16TH AUGUST. 1914.
The Company's New Steamship
"TAISHAN
Will depart from the Company's WING LOK STEZET WHARF 9. sm, and return From Alacao at 2p,m..
NBThe Company will also ran a Steamer from Mazao on Sunday at 7.30 am. and from Hongkong at 12.30 p.m., from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf.
FARES AS USUAL.
CANTON-MACAO LINE.
8.8. HOISANG. D
Departures from Macao to Canton on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 9 pm. Departures from Canton to Macso on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday, at 4.30 p.m.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACÃO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD... THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.. AND THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. CANTON-WUCHOW LINE.
8.8. SAINAM, 588 tons, and 8.8. NANNING, 569 tons:
One of the above Steamers leaves Canton for Wuchow overy Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at about 9am., and the other leaves Washow for Canton on the same days at 3.30 am. Round trips take about 5 days. Passengers can return to Hongkong or vice versa by the Company's direct Steamers LINTAN and SANUI. These vessels hare superior. Cabia commodation and are lighted throughout by electricity. Electric Fas in each Cabia.
Booking Offies open dally (Sunday excepted) 9 azu. to 5 pm. Purther partienlars may be obtained at the Office of the
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT Co., LTD.,
Hotel Mansions (First Floor, opposite the Bake Pier.
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES. FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO AND FROM JAPAN
VIA SHANGHAI,
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO AND FROM EUROPE VIA -SUEZ CANAL.
FOR
BHANGHAI, KOBE
ТОКОНАМА
MARSEILLES VIA PÓRTS
KOBE
Return
MOJI NAGASAKI Return, Beturz.
8122 $75
$108
$95
$65
$57
With option of Rail between Steamer's Calling Porte in Japan.
For Further Information as to Freight, Salling, &c, apply to-
Tharaons Nos. 292 and 1241
T. KUSUMOTO, MANAGER.
PENINSULAR &
(8—9— it
PILGRIMAGE OF AN EMPRESS,
LAST VISIT TO PABIS OF NAPOLEON III.'s
[WIDOW.
["EXFRESH"' CORRESPONDENT.]
*
PARIS, July 19th.
In the crowd of tourists who have boon
in Paris during the last few days, there
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 10th at 10.50 a.--Pressure has Increased moderately over NE China ant decreased slightly over. S.E. China, Indos China and the Philippines.
No returns from Japan;
Hongkong minfall for the 24 hours ending så
5 am. to-day, 0,00 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noem,
was a black garbed aged woman, who, to-day is as follows:
passing unnoticed except by a very few,
DISTRICT.
FORMUASE.
· East or variable
moved through the places that have for her imperishable memories. It was the Hongkong & Neighbourhood winds; moderate
Express Eugénie.
to light; fine. (The same
No. 1.
They say it is the last time she will Formors Channel - ... come to Paris. She is now eighty-eight years old, five years older than Francis Joseph of Austria. With him, she has outlived history, and grown older than hor grief. Sho wished to see France once more for the last time.
South coast of China betweenƒThe same Hongkong and Lamooke. { No. 1.
She drove to the Boulevard du Temple, where, in 1858, Orsini threw a bomb at the carriage in which she was driving with Napoleon III. France no longer thinks of her bitterly as the "hateful woman? responsible for the disaster of 1870. She has outlived the resentmont of the uation that ones called ber Empress, and those who know she was here have followed her Odyssey through the past with sympathy and interest
THE GARDENER.
South coast of Chins between (Bass winda, Hongkong and Hainan.. moderate.
CHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station.
REGISTER.
10гa August, 1914, a.m.
Wind
*10
11144
A few days ago, dressed in deep mourn ing, she alighted from a carriage at the Place du Carrousel between the two
Vladrosicok pavilions which are all that remain of the
Nemaro Tuileries of Paris, where she once received Hakodate ..... Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort Tokio......... With slow steps, leaning on her strick, she Kooli walked to a flower bed and stooped down
to pick a scarlet geranium.
Hóla-bus cried the gardener. Oshima
That is not allowed, you know."
Count Warewski, who was with her, Ishi'jma explained in a low voice to the gardener: Bonin Is..... "It is the Empress Eugénie. The garden Chefoo ..............
Welhaiwai once belonged to her."!
རྟ་ ་ ་ ་ The man mused for a moment, and then Hankow throwing his hat on the ground, he chang picked a bunch of geraniums and offered. it to the Empress. Next day she still had the bouquet of geraniums from the datalat Tuileries flower bed.
Naha *********
649
29.79 73
Einklang
Changsha
Shanghai
29.8)
Starp
Peak...
6 89.78
6 a. 29,83
39.84
Tainan .......... Kashan ********* Pescadores Canton
14-29.81
赊
129,82
14 * 29.82
Hongkong
19.8
Macao movies
Wnchow
Hollow
Paulier.........
Tourane
Wherever she went she was faced with Amoy the past. She went to the Carnavalet Swatow........... Museum and stood silent and immobile Taihoku before that wonderful cradle of carven Taichu bronze and mahogany with a crown for its canopy. It was the cradle of her son, the Prince Imperial, killed in Zululand thirty-five years ago...
The staff of the museum stood apart, conscious of the sorrow that was in the Gap Rook...... heart of the Empress.
Saddest of all was her visit to Foutaine- bleau, the oldest palace of the Sovereigns Pakho
of France the house of the centuries,"
as Napoleon I. called it. A
Who can know the thoughts that passed Cape St. James through her mind as she walked with the Aparri carator over the palace of the once mighty Manila
Legaspi
ORIENTAL kings, noble and ignoble ?
STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
PROPOSED SAILINGS OF MAIL STEAMERS
FOR
MARSEILLES AND LONDON
TAKING PASSENGERS ALSO FOR ZA
COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA. EGYPT, BRINDISI, & THROUGH TICKETS ISSUED TO BOSTON AND NEW YORK
to
Counsoting Steamer "ÛRIENTAL" Leaves YOKOHAMA
Steamers
to.
COLOMBO.
Leave Leave
BHANG- HONG-
HAI KONG,
Connooting Steamers from COLOMBO
MARSHILZES and LONDON
Dne at
MARSEIL
LES.
6 pm Noon. Tues, Satur,
Pita Thurs.
DELTA Aug. 6 Aug. 20 HIMALAYA Sept. 3 ARCADIA
Sept. 17 ASSAYE ...... Oct, 1 DEVANHA
Aug. 11 Ang, 15 EGYPT.. Aug, 25 Aug. 29 MALWA Sept. 8 Sept. 12 MOREA Sept 22 Sept. 25 MALOJA Oct. 60st 10 MOOLTAN
Saturday
Dao st PLINOV2 (Landes 1 day lataj
Friday
Bept. 12 Sept. If Sept. 26 Ost. 2 Oet: 10 Oct. 14
HISTORIC CASKET.
(29.80
Bacolod.....
29.94 84
In the apartment of Louis XIII, she Cobri stopped suddenly and exclaimed, Ah, Labuan my casket And as she read the label.
Casket belonging to Anne of Austria,
vita of Louis XIII, she went on to explain in pathetic tones, "I used to call it my enaket, because the Emperor gave it to me on our marriage to hold my gloves and fans.....
Would your Majesty care to see your dining room?" asked the curator.
"Yes," she said, "I remember it well." Av ako stood in the room she asked, "Where is the beautiful Diana of Benvenuto Collini?"
told,
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director,
1 Danomerun, reduced to 33 dogross Palareubali, the level of the see in inches, terkas sad udredths.
2 TESFERATUR, in the shade, în degrees fahrenheit.
8 Hemwrrr, in percentage of saturation, the inmidity of air saturated with moisture being 100.
E' DIBRONION OF WIND, to twe points.
5 FOR OF Wur, nocording to Beaufort Soála. 8 STATE OF WEATHER, b hins sky," o detnožež skred, d drinking rain, 1"fog, a gloomy, hi kiall lighting, o oversset, y passing showers, 4 squall, Madame, it is in the Louvre," she wasrtain snow, t thunder, v visibility, w dew (was)
7 Bars in inches, t tenths and hundredthr
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
Then she passed through the last window of the Houri II. gallery, and looked out on the carp pond as one who sees the whole Friday Thursday past rise up in a brilliant dream. Dot 23 Ost.
My gondola is not there," she said, Nov. 6 Nov. 11 with a pitiful smile.
THE ATTENTION of Passengers to draws to the ACCELERATED AREIVAS of the Mail Steamers at Marseilles, Plymouth and London. These vessels will now arritu in Marseilles i Friday, and London on the following Friday. Arrangements are alss being made whereby passengers by the P. 0. Special Train from Marseilles can now arriva in London at 3.25 p.m. on Saturdaya,
Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO, and these for BRINDISI transfer also be the Express Mail Steamor at PORT SAID. Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved la Hongkong at the time of Booking. FARES
The Fares to London and Marseilles are as follows:
1st Saloon
"B" 2nd Saloon "A"
"A" Accommodat
"B"
Bingle £65. -359- £44, 240.
LONDON
Return
1st Salova
2nd Saloon
"B'
Accommodation Single £61. £55. £42.
MARSEILLES
Return
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IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS INTERMEDIATE (NON-TEARBHIPMENT) STEAMERS WILL LBAYN FOR
LONDON
CARRYING 1ST AND 2ND BALCON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES
STEAMERS.
OUTWARD
STHAMER
TO SAIL
NILE MALTA SARDINIA. NUBIA NAMUR
AND (CORDILLERE (POLYNESIEN
HOMEWARD
(AMAZONE
PAUL LECAT -
ALL STEAMERS FITTED WITH WIRELESS. BANSHIPPING on the Co's Steamers at COLOMBO for CALCUTTA, BOMBAY THAVSHIPPING on Pre MAID for the LEVANT, CONSTANTINOPLE
BLACK SSA. Through Tickets to LONDON vis PARIS by mak
Circular Tickets to Europe ria Sues and SIBERIAN ROTTE and vice-ETR "delivered here
For further particulare apply to
P. THOMAS, AGENT.
QUEEN'S BUILDING.
PROFOUND BAILINGS
Leave Leave LOSTO THAMA SHANGHAI H'KONG
about about
Aug.
About
Leave Dus at Das st S'PORE M'AEILLES LONDO
about
about about
3
Aug. 13 Aug, 19 Aug, 25 Sept. 23 Oct. Aug. 18 Aug. 27 Sept. 2 Bept. 8 Oct. 7 Oct 16 Sept. 1 Bopt. 10 Sept 16 Sept. 22 Oct. 21 Nov. 1 Sapt. 15 Sept. 24 Sept. 30 Oct Nov 4 Nov. 15 Sept. 29
Oct. Oct. 14 Oct, 20 Nov. 18 Nov. 22
B
These Steamers call sino si PORT SWETTENHAM, PENANG and COLOMBO
PARES TO LONDON:
1st Baloon £50 Single: £75 Beturn.ad Saloon £35 Single: £52 Return FARES TO MARSEILLES:
1st Baloon £46 Bingle, 2nd Salou: £33 Single.
All Passenger Steamers are fitted with the Marconi System of Wireless Telegraphy
THE ABOVE RATES ARE SUBJECT TO A SURTAX OF 10%."
For Further Fartionlara, apply to
74
E.
HEWETT
SUPFY INÝHE DEST
She went down the steps that led to the pond, and sat down on a bench. Not because I am tired," she said, "but because I want to think and remember, For it may be long before I come again." And so she returned to Farnborough to-night,
TITLE-MARRYING TAX.
BILL AGAINST AMERICAN DUCHESSES.
Mr. Stanley Bowdle, af Cincinnati, introduced into the United States House of Representatives last month a Bill to tax the incomes of Americans who marry foreigners with titles 25 per cent, in addi- tion to the ordinary income-taxf
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, August 10th
Previous On Dato On Date:
st at 2/p.m.
Barometer Temperature Hamidity...... Wind Direction
Fores Weather
Rain
?
They
2 p.m.
29.82 29.81
29.78
85
-79
87
75
91
61
Fast 3
East 2
Highest open sir Temperature on 9th... 87 Lowest open air Temperature on 9th..
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
Mr. Bowdle, whose Bill was regarded by his colleagues with undisguised merri- ment, said: "Cincinnati is pretty well represented among the titled nobility. We have two princesses and one duchogs, With a marchioness and a countess, the Pass. list will be complete. So far as many of
Wed. our rich women are concerned American ideals and American patriotism are mere words. Maltitudes of them seem to be Thurs. willing to lay down all for a foreign title and proceed to rear a few children as subjects of crowned heads. The rush for Satur, the ducal bargain-counter is immense.
The Bill will serve at once to depress Sun, the price of these ladies at the Europeab spas. We can at least protect ourselves Mon. from the bitterness and unrest occasioned by this transfer of our millions to foreign hands by a suitable tax."
LATEST STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The Silk shipped from Hongkong by R.M.B. Empress of Russia on the 8th July has reached New York,
The A.O. Line str. Changsha left Manila on the 8th August for Hongkong, and may be expected to arrive here on the 11th August.
V
From 11th to 15th August, 1914.
HIGH WATER
Height
LOW WATME
H'kong,
B'kong
Mean
Atean
Time
Time
h.
17 0 20
4
8
6
57
0 8 5 5
6 38
120 415 1
6 48
·0 34 4 9 7 4a 13m 195 2m 8 10
14
DF Height
1.248 4 3 17.20 a 3 2. 1:51 5 4 ra 10 12 | 5 a 2 55 5 7 7 22 3 5 15m 2.47 | 5 6 m 11 46|| 2 8
No infer high-juor low- water 16 m 3 49 6°0 0 42 2 3
No inter, high- nor low-water
126 1 8 17m 4.50 6 3
No infer high- 1. nor low-!; water:
ISITOR TO CANTON Sale Should Purchase. "FROM HONGKONG TO CANTON BY THE PEARL RIVER,”
BI
CAPTAIN O. V. LLOYD, With Illustrations, Maps nod Plans, PRICE: $1.75
On Sale, at:
Hongkong: "DAILY PRESS" Office.
Mesra. – Exily & Walsh, Ltd. Messrs. Baswis & Co. Cantór: · Hamas. A. 8. Warne dƐ 00.