THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 718, 1911
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.
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8.5
"AQUILEIA": "NIPPON "..
4.3.
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FOR SHANGHAI.
CILICIA"..."
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BAILINGS THON KOIUKORG SVEIKON TO ALTERATION.
POSTAGE STAMPS. JAPAN. ANCIENT "ANIÀ MODERN.
BY FRED. J. MELVILLE.]
While the early stamps of Japan are of interest to the advanced specialist, the middle and later issue present the chief inscination to the general collee tor. They provide a ghaint mixture of modemity with the micient lore of the Onest, The Japanese adopted the Western idea of using their stamps for commemorating notable events at cum paratively early date. In 1894, on the occasion of the silver wedding of the late Emperor, two stamps were issued to mark
the event. They are of a large size, and show in the centre the chrysanthemum, the imperial crest, supported by two cranes. The crane in Japap is an, em- blem of longevity, and is supposed to live a thousand years The design is elaborated with cherry blossoms, which are said to represent the spirit of Japan. There were only two values, the 2-sen red, and the 5-sen blue; they were only on sale for one month, the "silver honeymoon," and were eagerly bought
up
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BISHOPS' PLEA FOR MINERS.
'GOVERNMENT BLAMED.
Both Houses of the Convocation of Canterbury reassembled on April 97th, at the Church House, Westminster.
INDOCHINA
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solution recognizing that morad no less The Bishop of Lichfield moved a re- than economic issues are involved in the declaring that the House present dispute in the coal industry and
1-Welcomes, on miners, the desire that the strong should the part of the help to bear the burdens of the weak, and on the part of the mineowners, frank recognition that the living wage should be regarded as the first charge CALOUTTA LINE: This Line affords regular sailings to Calcutta, Foning and
SAILINGS, BUBJECT TO ALTERATION
SANDAKAN "
HINSANG......Tues, 7th June Noon. HAIPHONG 1 HOIFOW "TAKSANG” Wed 8th June, 9 a.m SHANGHAI & TOMITAU VÍK SWATOW “TUNGSHING " Wed, 8th June, Noon. STRAFTS & CALOUTTA.... KWAINANG ...Thur, 9th Juno, 3 pin, TIENTSIN
CHIPSHING" .Eri 10th June, D'light MANILA
* WINGSANG Fri., 10th June, po SHANGHAI
* CEOYSANG “Wed, 15th June," Dlight.
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on the industry, and also their willing ness to forgo profita during the present period of stress.
TIENTSIN
BANGKOK
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Singapore; returning from Calcatta, steamus proced via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, ocassionally calling at Shanghai, - All steamers have excellend passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and fans and carry a fully-qualided Surgeon
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passenger accommodation, sailings from both parts every Fridays approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at doihow when inducement offers. LINE-One wiling per month between Hongkong and Sandakan by
a steamer having up-to-date accommodation for passengera. Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading for Kuadat, Jesselton LINE:-A regular service is run from March to November between
Labuso, Tawso and Lahad Datu Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Weihaiwei and Chefoo. LINE-A weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Hangkok, via Swatow, by four steamers fibed with up-to-date passenger accommodation.!
CALCUTTA
2-Affirms its conviction that only on the lines suggested in the resolution,
4. passed by the Lambeth Conference, SHANGHAI san a lasting settlement be hoped for outstanding and preasing duty of the this or other industrial dispute:"An Church is to convince its members of MANILA the necessity of nothing less than a fundamental change in the spirit and HAIPHONG working of our economic lile. This At the close of the war with China, change can only be effected by accept-
BORNEO four stamps were issued which exhibiting as the basis of industrial relations aphase of Oriental etiquette. It was the principle of co-operation in service desired to honour two of the heroes of for the common good in place of unres the TOT, the Tate Harshal Prince tricted competition for private or sec Arisugawa Tarubito, chief of the staff tional advantage." of the Japanese army, and Lieut The Bishop said the me, thing needed General Prince Kitashirakawa, com- above all others was a new spirit in all mander of the Imperial Guards engaged such controversies. He had known a in the subjugation of Formosa. A 2-sen good deal about miners in Durham, and and a 5-sen stamp were decided upon. Bir present diocese contained a large bearing portraits of these princes who a part of the mining industry as any in had fallen in the war, but to avoid ap that Province. He had spent the last pearing to give one precedence over the two Sundays among the miners of Can- other two stamps of each denomination nock Chase, and wished to testify to were issued, so that ench Prince figured their extraordinary quietness, order, on a bien red stamp and each on a 5-sen patience, and, he was bound to add, the blue.
resolution with which they met the The present Emperor, Yakhibito, was mar-present situation. All must have sym. ried to the Princess Sadako on May 10th, pathy with these, men, who followed 1900, and a special stamp that is unique such an arduous and dangerous occu in the annals of philately was issued in pation, and those who knew them best connexion with the celebrations. Ahad a profound respect for the character description of its details will show what of at least the majority of them. They a volume of Oriental lore is embodied were
among the htt trustworthy in its symbolism.. In the spandrels are men
the country. They must branches of wistarin,' the crest of the sympathize with the miners in the way Pincess's family; the Imperial crest is in which the present crisis was arpung at the top of the owl. The two swal- upon them. It had been a great min. lows. at the bottom are said to be em take to insist on decontrol taking place blematic of domesticity. The subjects at the end of March. The desire of the within the oval are associated with the miners that the stronger parts of the marriage ceremony in Japan. Chief country should help to bear the burdens among these is the yanagibako, a willow of the weaker districts was an entirely box covered with red paper, in which Christian principle. On the other the first letter which the bridegroom hand, they could not withhold their sym Behind this pathy from the mineowners. Bitterness bo is a table ornamented with pictures between masters and men in the mining of cranes and pines. While the crane is industry was not at all common. The supposed to live a thousand years the present conflict was one which affected pine never dies, so by these emblems not only those immediately concerned. the Japanese wish the young couple long but the whole, community. In such ne late. On this table or rishiki" are gotiations as were now taking place all placed rice cakes, called mikka re the cards should be placed on the table. mochi, which are left for three days and nights in the bridal chamber. To begin with; there should be as many of these age, presuming, of course, that he has told it correctly. The stamp, 3-sen car mine, was issued or April 26th. 1900. but the public was strictly warned not to use it before May 10th, the date of the ceremony.
BEATILE & VICTORIA or VANCOUVER vis Marla, Keeling, sent to his pride is kept.
Shanghai & Japan porta
Cargo to Overland Folnts UA in connection' with Great Northern Northern Pacita
and Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt. Paul Raliways. ・
KATORI HARU -KAYNIWA MABU
JUWA MARU
FUSHIMI MARU...
(omitting Manila)
Friday, Tuesday,
17th June, at 11 am. 18th July, at 11 am, Friday. 29th July, at 11 am, Tuesday, 23rd Ang, x9 21 am.
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LONDON & ANTWERP ris Bingspors, Penang, Colombo, Buscakes as there are years in the bride's
Port Said and Marseilles.
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Friday,
Friday,
Friday,
Friday,
ATSUTA KARUTM
SHIDZUOKA MARU!
KAGA MARU
YOKOHAMA MARUT
LIVERPOOL & MARSEILLES via Saes.
10th Juno, at 11 am 24th June, at 11 am
8th July, AU 22 mm." 2nd July, st 11 xạm,
HAMBURG, MARSEILLES, LONDON & BOTTERDAM.
MELBOURNE & SYDNEY is Manila, Zamboanga, Thunday marked the ocension of the triumphal
Island, Townsville & Brisbane.
NIKKO MARU
TANGO MARU
AKI HARD
A
NEW YORK VIA PANAMA.
21st June, at 11 am. 19th July, at 11 am. 10th Ang, at 11 am.
Tuesday,
Tuesday, Tuesday,
Friday,
24th June. End of July.
Sunday,
-19th June,
SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via CAPE,
..TOBA MARU
***
HAKODATE MARU
AWA MARU·
TATSUNO MARU
CALCUTTA MARU
BOMBAY & COLOMBO via Bingapore.
11th June.
Saturday Tuesday, 28th June, CALCUTTA & BANGOON via Bingapore & Penang.
Wednesday, 22nd June.
+
JAPAN PORTS-Nagasaki, Kobe & Yokohams.
PENANG MABU!!
16
NIKKO HARU SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
•
Friday,
YOKOHAMA MABU ".
RANGOON MARU
KLEIBT
MISHIMA MARU
--17th-Jaño, at 11 am
Monday, 13th June, at 11 am Tuesday, 14th June. Friday, 24th Jans, at 11 am. Thursday, 7th July, at 11‚âm.
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GOVERNMENT UNWIN."
The Bishop of Peterborough, in sec- ending the resolution, said he repud iated the idea that as bishops they had any authority to deal with the matter unita economió: aide. They did not wish to apportion, blame, but he felt) very strongly that there were few exam- ples in modern days of a Government
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CALCUTTA
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For Freight or Passage apply to-
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being so unwise and foolish as the pre- U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.
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In 1805 4 3-sen stamp was issued to
sel Government had been in refusing commemorate the amalgamation of the to use to its full and originally intended Japanese and Korean postal adminis extent the time available for adjusting trations, and in, the following year two the difficulties which now seemed so in- Stamps, 1-sen blue, and 3-sen rose soluble. The mining industry was
national key industry, yet to any dis- military review of that year. In 1008
passionate critfe its organization_seem- Į two high-value stamps were added to the ed to be singularly inefficient. It was genom stamp series current in Japan, not bufficiently realized how drastic the and these portray the Empress Jingo reductions proposed were. Considering Kogó, one of the popular heroines of the state of the industry, it would cer old Japan. The Empress Jing was tainly have been a marvellous thing, if Regent from 201 to 209, in the name of a hody like the miners had been pre- her son, Ojiu, and died at the age of pared to accept so vast and drastic a 100. She is remembered for her success reduction in their standard of wages) ful war against Korea, in which she took and life as was contemplated. It was part; she had the special protection of by no means simply a question of wages. the god Sumiyoshi, who piloted her vessels, and when a great storm arose huge fishes came up to the surface and held up the ships to prevent them from foundering.
THE COMING OF THE CROWN PRINCE.
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new outlook had come over the miner. He had discovered that the only way in which he could better his condition was by forming with his fellow-workers a great brotherhood. This change of utlook, this mutual comradeship which The present Emperor succeeded to the existed among the miners, waar very shroma on July 30th, 1912, but his coro-potent factor, which had not always nation did not take place until Novem- been appraised at its true value, ber, 1815, when a set of four stamps was The Bishop of Birmingham said they put on sale, The 13-eu grey and must strive to reach a settlement which, if not a final one,' would last for a very scarlat, depicts the curious itsed at the coronation, the 3-sen, violet long period indeed. It was not a fight and yellow-brown, shows the throne, in between the owners and the miners. The emblems. The 4-an, carmine, and the demanded fresh and different dealing. 10-sen, blue, represent an entrance to The miners had a right to special con- the Imperial Palace at Kyoto, which is Bidetation when compared with other reserved for use on great State occa workers. His work was beyond measure trying, deadly in its dullness, wearying, A year after the coronation there and arduous. He did not think they get that blessed word followed, on November 3rd, 1018, the would over formal proclamation of the Prince Hiro-nationalization to do for them what they hito as heir apparent to the Throne of hoped. Nothing was more untrue than Japan. This event was marked by the to say that the miner was of a Bolshe 168ue of three special stamps, 1isen, vist type. The Church should consider green, red, and yellow, 3-sen, red, and the whole question of what was called yellow, and 10-sen, deep blue and blue. Property, not only in regard, to mine. The design, on the two low values is owing, but property-in general. taken from the dress worn by his Im The Bishop of Winchester said it perial Highness at the ceremony, the seemed to him that fi statesmanship central device being a phoenix. an em- of the community was frally at fault in blem of marital felicity, and the frame not seeing that when decontrol came.co is ornamented, with pawlonia imperials, effect would be too great in order to the emblem of the Empress, The 10-sentide over a dificulty and inaugurate an stamp shows the hit or toque worn by epoch. He suggested the insertion in the Prince within a frame adorned with the resolution of the following words- **Recognizes as the root of the present cherry blossoms. Prince Hirohito, in whose honour these stamps were issued, trouble the neglect to prepare for the will celebrate the twentieth anniversary critical moment of decontrol by any of his birth in Europe (April 29th).. constructive changes in the organization Three other set of commemoration of the industry This was accepted by stamps have been aged recently, and the Bishop of Lichfield and his second. have already been illustrated in this column. They are the Peace Celebra Lion set of 1910, the stamps to mark the taking of the first census for the whole at the Japanese Empire,October 1st, 1920, and the consecintion, on November 1st, 1920, of the Meljijingu, the temple built in honour of the late Emperor, who, at the cornmencement of his long of which event is be and enlightened reign, introduced the another new act postage stamp into Jupan, the jubilee be put on sale on
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The Bishop of Exeter said he should be very sorry if it went forth that the Bishops were on the Socialistio, side,
On the motion of the Bishop of St. Albans, the debate was adjourned.
the Empire
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Company has on hand a Large Number of
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ALWAYS READY FOR CHARTERS of all descriptions.
The following are comprised in the Company's Bloot
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And under, the Company's Management *--*
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