THR HONGKONG DAILY PRENS, MONDAY, JUNE 678, 1991.
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SCOTTISH LETTER, SHIPPING AND THE COAL STRIKE
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[TROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT-]
patron. There are 33 pages of poemer and copies of original vecacs of the poet, in- her handwriting at the end of the volume,
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The old-world- Forfarshiro fishing village of Auchalthie was made famous by Sir Walter. Scott; it was the Mussel crnig of The Antiquary. But the home of the Mucklebackets. is about to SHANGHAI LINE: come into promigence in another sphere, having attracted the attention of the The pictures promoters of the movies."
Mine
Mon.
6h Jane LEESANG
BIBANG T TAKRANITs, ath June, Nown.
Wed 8th June, UNUSHING hod., 5th-June, Noon. KWAISANG Thur 9th Judo, §. pm
10th June, light. 10th Jure PP
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# CHOISING”...Wed, 15th June. Dight Thin Line ifford's wgular sailings to Calentia, Pearg and biz gujore return og ficm Calcatia steamers proceed vis birilis and Hongkong la Jayan, Tocessionally calling "All trainers bate excellent
* fully-qualified
and carry
fitted with Bles'rio Light and free kur zett
approximately every five days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow Through tickets can be obtained and through Bil of Lading are issued to all Northern and Yang me Ports via Shanghai
passenger accommodation, small ga om Hota Torts every Friday. LINK-Sallings approximately weekly for passengers and cargo,
at Boihow when indur meat offers 115K - One salling per adath Lolvern Honglor g Sandakan by
que little place and its surrounding rug. MANIA LINE - weekly service is maintali ed with enlla by yousels with good ged cliff scenery is to play an important. Just
art in a film founded on Charles Rende's BAIBONG Christie Johnstone. The cinema photo FOFEFU gripher and a big star alteads at work, to the great amazement
company are
nád amusement of the natives.
a meamer having opto-date secommodstic t-for passengers. Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kundai, Jesselton Labuan, Tawao and Land Date,
Scottish golfers are discussing the trick feats in golf performed by Kirkwood, the Australian golf professional. It is ro called that his feat has been equalled: while he can drive one ball from the"
top of another without moving the lower ball, EbixauRay, April 27th-
the Scottish golfers of 50 years ago wern The effects of the coal strike are felt able to drive a ball of the face of a watch all over Scotland and in a
RALPHONG via BUIROW..... great without breaking the glass. Most Scot- variety of industries. In particular, thetish golfers know this tradition, but the
SHANGHAI & TUINOTAU VIA SVATOW STRAITS a USLLL'ISHING".Fr, iron and steel trade is severely de- general opinian sems to be that it was
TIENTSIN... pressed. A Motherwell Brin, for in- merely a way of expressing how clever the
MANILA stance, employing 2,000 men, has closed old school of golfers were, and that no
SHANGHAI down its works; and at the other end
one ever, actually drove off with a watch of Scotland 170 trawlers engaged at as a tee. Aberdeen are lying idle. Similar ex- amples might be given of the state of affairs from all our industrial distret
The Clyde, with its great shipping interests, is, of course, severely touch ed. The shipyards are handicapped by the shortage of cowl, workers have had to be discharged, and there is great congestion of ships at the port. Vessels are laid up, anil a number of athers are unable to start. The coastal traffe is cas down by 50 per cent. The harbour authorities 23 that the effects of the strike will be felt right on tif, the end of July. The shipping slump be. fore the strike was serious enough, but The deeply rooted notion that no film there was a hope that business might can be assured of success unless, it is TENTE pup during the summer. miners action, however, has dispelled gerously punctuated with American any bright forecasts, and put the ship-alang has received a rude shock in a new BANGKOK of Christing ping outlook into a blacker state than picture play, a version of "The Fortune M'Nab," British produc tradered in Scots. At first, the unusual captions took the experts by surprise, and they laughed when they saw this sort of thing flashed on the screen--" ' lass tonnage of 63,000, are. tied like mysel' 11 har naa deeficulty in spend. up on the Clyde. Almost daily there ing a sight o' bawbees, though I'm no are applications to lay up ships either sac seemple as tae throw guid money awa in the Garelach or on the river Onwi'oot it's the advantage. But before the loch there are 10 vessels represent- the film was ended the novelty was ing 44,000 tons, and many more are received with enthusinam, and Scots, likely to find their way to the anchor braid or otherwise, will henceforth receive
the freedom of the screen... age.
Some say that as soon as the miners SCOTTISH CRICKET PROSPECTS. resume work, coal will be available in quantities. But it will not be British coal Substantial American cargoes are expected at the Scottish ports. Offed with a few preliminary games. If the course, American coal is cheaper, but it weather conditions are in any way favour. is decidedly inferior to that of Britain. In the meantime shipowners are trying to be licawbers with all the cheerful acay at their command, waiting for something to turn up.
over
The
Glasgow Harbour is silent. The quays arp lined with ships, but there is little or no movement, What between the slump and the strike, some 18 ships of a
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in which the conversations are
What promises to be one of the busiest and most interesting cricket seasons we have ever had in Scotland has just open-
SEATTLE & VICTORIA or VANCOUVER is Manila, Keelung, gang, ver 50,000 tons, kes place and Union sixtures, and the effort after
"Shanghai & Japan ports mes
Cargo to Overland Points 173, la conection with Great Northern Northern Panthe and Eizlömkö, Milwaukes:✯S1, Paul Railways KATORI MARU
(omitting Manila)
KARONPLA KABU
MABU
BUWA
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LONDON ANTWERP
Port Ball" rand Mar
ATSUTA MARU
BHIDZUOKA MARU]...
TAGA WASUNA ZO
YOKOHAMA KABUJ...
Friday,
17th June, ut fi am. Tanday 19th July,İL Kİ, Friday 19th July, at-li am. Tumeday, 2341 Aug, all am poro Pining, Valdmbo, Su~
Friday, Friday,
HAMBURG, MARSEILLES, LONDON
LIVERPOOL & NWABBRILLEJ vin· Bues.
10th Jane, at {1 mm) 24th Juno, at 11 am 8th July, (3ɔli ami
ROTTERDAM.
change in the situation takes place, very soon that number will be considerably increased. It is, of course, to the wide spread depression of trade that this great restriction in shipping traffic is principally due, but the coal stoppage is the direct cause of about a score of the ships being off service, Included among the idle vessels are several-large ex-German steamers, waiting for sale LEATH UT RETIRED JAYA BANK AGENT
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-Arnar service is run from March to November betweer
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CALCUTTA LINE
5. "KWAISANG" will be despatched on or about Thursday, 9th June,at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA
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· TENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES,
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able the standard of play thould exceed anything experienced of recent years. Twenty or thirty years ago our cricket was played leisurely. More time was given to the matches; there were one-day Unemployment in the shipping trade and often, two-day fixtures, which let on the Forth is also assuming more tamen settle to their game if there was All this has; beta aerious proportiona At Leith Docks any cricket in them. fully 60 vessels are lying idle, aggrechkaged; now we have one afternoon a week, as a rule; and the rush of League Championship points, have made the game one of the make-runs-or-get-out order. Whether this is for the benefit of the game is very doubtful; but these modern methods have aroused the public
the interest at least in
west and hundreds attend the competition games where only tens turned out for the old friendties-Edinburgh and the East is as et unaffected by this new fashion; in the Northern Counties, the Western District, sad the South of Scotland competitive Mr. William Drysdale, retired Java cricket has pat life into what was a bank agent, died at his residence in decaying sport. It may be said that, Fark Avenue, Dunfermline, on April from the purely cricketing point of view, Eist, after a brief illness. It was only it is generally admitted that this present about 19 months ago that Mr. Drysdale day system is not so satisfactory as tho retired from the service of the Hong old. Many players, who might develop UK. kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora into cracks are temperamentally unfitted tion, with whom he had occupied a res for these fast matches, and are unable ponsible position in Java for 37 years to do themselves full justice. There are, He was a native of Crossford, and however, fewer unsatisfactory draws. served his apprenticeship in the Dum in the Edinburgh District, where ho competitive cricket is played, the play in Heotland. As a young man, he entered of a much higher standard than in any the employment of the Hongkong Bank other part of Scotland; the game is not ing Corporation at their London office for the benefit of spectators, but for the After a period of training there, he was pleasure of the player. That is the true sent de an assistant to the Corporation's sporting spirit, and it is universal all branch at Batavin, Java. From Batavia through the Metropolitan East. he was transferred to Sourabaya, at the THAT AUERDONIAN AGAIN southern extremity of the island," and With deep regret 1 announce the death was agent of a branch of the bank open- of a well-known Aberdonian in London: cd there. Subsequently he returned as it happened some time ago, but I heard agent to Batavia, and there he spent of it only the ether day. It appears the greater part of his time in the Far that sothe one had dropped a threepenny East Linder his supervision the bank piece in the Strand, and the man from prospered greatly, and he enjoyed in a the North, in endeavouring to pick it up, the was knocked down by a passing motor marked degree the friendship of Dutch population, with whom he had bus, and killed. Having regard to the business. It was Mr. Drysdale's inten-circumstances, the Coroner at the inquest tion to take a pretracted holiday in Aus ratified the verdict, Death from asture! tralia, and he was making arrangements to that end when he was seized by ill I told this story to another Aberdonian ness, and within a week, it took a seri- the other day, He looked at me and said ous turn. Mr. Drysdale was about so solemnly, "We've a lot to thank Provi years of age. He is survived by Mrs. dence for,it might have been you or Drysdale, two sous, and one daughter. | MEL "BONAË· LAW,
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY via Maalis, Zamboanga, Thursday fermline branch of the National Bank of
Laland, Towinville
TANGO WAKET
TEKO MARU,
"AKI "MABU
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NEW YORK VIA PANAMA.
STOBALMAROM
HAKODATE NARU
AWA MARU
· TATSUNO MARU:
BHibane.
Tamsday, slat Fans, alii am. Tronday, '19th July, "TY11 - Tuoslay, 16th Angat,llam.
Sith Jane of July.
Friday,
Sunday,
19th June.
Friday
10th June.
SOUTH AMERICAN FUBTS TIS "OAPE,
BOMBAY & COLOMBO vis Singapore.
DALOUTTA & BANGOON via Singapore & Perang.
MATACOA MARU
Monday, 6th Jane.
JAPAN PORTS-Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohams.
NIKKO MAŠU
Friday,
17th Jano, "as 11'a m
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA
TSURUGA MARU
Saturday,
TUTOMI MARU.
*Monday,
YOKOHAMA HARU
BANGOON MARU
Monday, Tuesday,
8. TABIA. Manager
For further thierings
Telephons Noi. 299 & 293 -
4th June
6th June, 18th June, at 11 am 14th June.
NIPPON YUSEN. KAISHA Mr. Bonar Law is maintaining a fre
KISEN KAISHA.
(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co,Lra.)
REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE BETWEEN
KELUNG HONGKONG & HAIPHONG
Salling from Hongkong.
FOR HAIPHONG via Pakhof
88 "HOZUI MABU ... .....
FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy
88. "TAIKWA MARU”
on or about 7th Jans
For further particulara, sicasa apply
Branch
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or about 7th Juds
KOBAYASHI,
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mor!
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quent correspondence with his political friends; they in turn keep him well supplied with the news and gossip of the Evers golfer, says a home paper, knows day. He writes cheery letters, and as how the expenses of the game have in- sures everyone that he is making good crased since the end of the war. Sub progress towards complete restoration seriptions have been raised; a new shaft Bometimes, however, he confesses he costs as much as a whole quiverful in feels bored with doing nothing," and former days; the slump in rubber wishes he were back in the hurly-burley has not cheapened the price of the ball. of the Home of Commons,
Golf is not singular, however, in this rea pect. Three months hence the plaintive MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS
Mr. Maurice Hewlett may pablish his of the lawn tennis player will be beard in the land. All the charges of Mary Queen of Scots dramon in the the game have mounted since last year, course of this year. He says that it was when he hoped fondly that they had An extraordinarily difficult drama to reached their highest point. Rackets bring to a fitting conclusion, because which cost 30s. in 1914 are being offered Mary was locked up", for twenty years at £a. Balls, which were soll at 131. after her romantic adventures in the dozen in 1914, and at 2s. 6d. last year, open, and you can scarcely ask a theat will cost about 988. in the coming season. rical audience, to imagine a lepse of The manufacturers are ready with the twenty years before the last scene. A familiar explanation of these increases cording to his own axiom, isid down the cost of labour material at the time From a Green Bhade" that an author when their goods were stocked. Asb should not be in love with his heroine wood, came, glue, and gut-all have Mr. Hewlett should be peculiarly fitted doubled or trebled in price. The inno to deal with Queen Mary, for he is not cent who suggests that balls ought to be in the least in love with her. All bit cheaper because rubber is cheaper is re studies, and he studied her history P. buke with the statement that cloth is the foundly for four years, led him to the most important part of a tennis ball conclusion that sho grostly desired to It is expected, however, that the present. be loved, but could not find any one to
year will see the highwater mark and do it.
that next year's players will get the KILMARNOCK EDITION OF RURES, benefit of falling prices. We fancy that A copy of the earliest Kilmarnock edi. Large numbers of players, will decide to tion of Burns poems, was sold in Edin carry on"" till then without troubling burgh for £005, the purchaser being Mr. the manufacturers. They will ask the Quaritch, of London. The copy was well worn racket to imitate the well-worn formerly in the possession of Mrs. Dus brassey and the well-worn overcoat by Jopcelebrated by the poet as his best doing duty for another season:
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KAISHA
(KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO.,
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The Company has on hand & Large Number of
NEW
CARGO STEAMERS
ALWAYS READY FOR CHARTERS of all descriptions.
The following are comprised in the Company's Ploot
Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight
And under the Company's Management
Twenty steamers of about 8,100 tons deadweight each. Two steamers of about 8,400 fong deadweight each. (Belonging to the Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd.).
For Charter Bales and all other particulars apply to the
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