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60,000 TON LINER FOR BRITAIN.
1,000-FT. LONG.
THREE YEARS TO BUILD WHITE STAR GIANT.
The Arst stage has begun in the He construction of the largest vessel in
the world.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STRAM NAVIGATION Co.'s
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ARRIVED HONG KONG or 19t1 JULY, 1929
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Protectionist majority in 1911, he repealed the Ashridge Park is destined for a corn law, and inspired Disraeli's nobler. use than Stowe, Bryanston, gibe about catching the Whigs bach- and Westonbirt. The greater parting and stealing their clothes. of the park, under the late Lord made political larceny fashionable, Brownlow's will, has been sold to for has not the present Governmani
the surtax from the Messrs." Harland and Wolff of and Kowloon Wharf and Godown the National Trust, to be preserved stolen
Socialists? And were not those pillars of the Conservative Party, Lord Ullswater and Mr. Baldwin, pushed into their revolutionary ex tensions of the franchise by the fear that, if they didn't, Messrs. Mac- Donald & Co. would do it?
as a pleasance for his majesty the public; while some nameless donor ans bought the house and eighty acres to be presented to the Con- servative Party for use as an educational and political training centre."
It is said that the anonymous purchaser intends this baroque and pretentious mansion as a memorial to Bonar Law, the simplest and most modest of statesmen!
Where Is The Conservative Party?
Nothing great is easy. The idea of founding a college to teach and preach the principles of Conser vatism may be commendable, but the initial difficulties are not to be ignored. The Arss is to find the Conservative Party, the second to
The Difference Between Parties.. The real difference between the two Front Benches is economic rather than political. In his In- troduction to the Clarendon Press
edition of Bagehat's English Con- stitution" Lord Balfour has pen ned this astonishing sentence
Our alternating Cabinets, though belonging to different parties, have never differed about the founda- tions of society." I would it were so, but surely that is not true. ascertain its principles, and the Putting aside the insanities of the third to discover its teachers. The Maxton-Cook coalition, the respon- present majority in the House of sible leaders of the Socialist Labour Commons is a political amalgam, Party have always proclaimed their outwardly imposing but, I fear, in intention of substituting State wardly brittle. It is composed of a ownership for individual possession Liberal-Unionist rump taken in when and how they can. If pro- compassionately by Salisbury inperty is not one of the foundations 1885, of a crowd of politicians hoist of society, I know not what they ed into Parliament by Mr. Lloyd are." George in the Hang-the-Kaiser, election, and of a Tory remnant, abandoned by Balfour in 1911, dumbfounded by Bonar Law's death and now sitting in resignation
in
1923, Iresolute
under
Д
feminist Prime Minister. The secret and sacred bond that binds this assemblage ef eccentric atoms together is the determination to keep their seats in the House of Commons.
Belfast, have already laid the keel of a new giant. White Star liner and have received orders to proceed with the building. The ship, of which the name has not yet been settled, will cost nearly £7,000,000- and will take three years to com- plete.
Her dimensions compared with " the Majestic, the present largest liner, will be:
Length
Boam Tonnage
New ship. Majestic.
916ft. 1,000ft.
115ft. 100ft. 60,000
55,850
The now liner will not be con-
structed on the same slips as were the Titanic, Olympic and Britannic, but in the east yard. She will be launched in Musgrave Channel. Her beam will be so broad that these slips existing gantries at will have to be remored at great extra expense.
Shipbuilder's Dream.
Lord Pirrie, who did not live, how- She will embody the dream of ever, to see it fulfilled..
Experts have not yet decided what type of machinery will be in- stalled. It is by no means certain if her engines will be Diesel or if she will be motor-propelled.
The defence of capitalism is the only Conservative principle that I can detect in the present Govern ment. And if the Ashridge college of propaganda is going to teach conomies to its pupils it may turn out to be an excellent foundation, though I should have thought there were ample opportunities of study- Thero is bound to be an element ing political economy ir. London, of experiment in regard to types at any of the universities, or in which have proved successful in any secondary or public school Ismaller ships, but which would have hate to speak disparagingly of a more exacting tests in such a giant intention to found a memorial to vessel as this wonder liner will be. se respectable a statesman as Bonar Law, who literally gave his life to the service of his country.
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ARREST WHILE BUYING AN ENGAGEMENT RING.
AND STRAITS.
ONSIGNEES of Cargo by the sbare CONSIGN VEC Forsby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at Takia Bax in the Hong Kong Company's Godowas at Kowicon, where such Conrignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained the Goods are landed,
Optional Goods will be landed here aalem Instructions have been given to the contrary Six hours before arrival of
g
the Steamer..
Goods not cleaned within 8 days, is sluding date of arrival, will be subject to Bant
No Fire Insurance will be effected by na in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Con signees, and the Company's Surreyors, Mars, GODDARD & Doces, at 10 M., OF
Monday
and Thursdays, within the Free Storage periode
All Claims against the Stamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 8th August, 1928, or they will not be recognized,
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns
MACKINNON, MAUKENZIE & Co.
▲ gentl Bong Kong, 19th July, 1993. 16317
"GLEN" LINE, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VA
PORTS..
TEE Motor Vissel
being
GLENOOLE having arrived from the above Porte, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, whence, and/or from the wharves, Delivery
be obtained. may
Goods not cleared by the 27th July,
presence
Their public and avowed prin- eiples, as embodied in their deeds, are repudiation of the legislative union of Great Britain and Ire land; failure to protect the persons
Cannot Be Made To Order." and the property of the Irish loyalists; expenditure of the taxes
But if I have been rightly in- in pensions, unemployment relief formed as to the dedication of and aubsidised rents; depriving Ashridge Park to the manufacture Inndlords of the rights of proof Conservatives, I think you may prietorship; ruinous interference indeed train a number of young with the rubber industry; the de- men and women, to cara a livelihood gradation of the franchise; and the as Conservative Slecturera, organi- refusal to amend or repeal Lord sers, and even Parliamentary can- A charge of obtaining money by Oxford's infamous. Parliament Act. didates. But is that a desiralle false pretences was made at Kent All these things may be excellent, calling? Wond the Conservatives Assizes at Maidstone against Fre or at least defensible; but are they ac manufactured be of the right derick Charles Weller (34), an ad- Conservatism? Is there here. any brand! I gathered from a recent vertising agent, of the Vale, Acton,ny case whatever. common, underlying principle, or letter in the Times that a similar W. body of doctrine, that may be in- stilled into the enthusiastic acolytes at Ashridge? It will never do to tell them that Conservatism is stark opportunism.
45 WARRANTS AGAINST A 1923, at Noon, will be subject to Rent
All broken, chafed and damaged Packages are to be left in the Godowne where they will be examined in the Messrs. of Consignees by Goddard and Douglas, on 28th July, 1928, at 10 Claims against the Vessel including those for L'argo short delivered must be presented on the Special Form provided, sud must also be submitted within 30 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be affected Bill of Lading will be countersigned JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.,
Agenta Hong Kong, 20th July, 1923. (6523
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
foundation, the Stott College in the It was stated that Weller visited Midlands, has been a failure, be inna and shops in various parts of cause of the paucity of pupils, Kent, representing himself as an The superior attractions of Ash-sgent for London match merchanta. ridge may attract a sufficient He obtained orders which were not
fulfilled number)
a
Conservatiam, or, indeed, any
Supt. Fitall stated that there l political opinion, is not so taught. You can no more,make & Conser were 45 warrants out for Weller's vative by sending him to a parti- arrest. Although married, and with erlar college than you can make two children, he was accompanied poet by the rules of prosody, or a on his tour of Kent by a widow to prose writer by Fowler's Modern whom he had proposed marriage. English Usage Political convic engagement ein he was buying an tions do not come from vicinage or ring...
Mr. Justice Avory sentenced from lectures, but from an alert perception of care's own and one's Weller to three years' penal ser fellows' interests, from the faculty vitude.
What Are Conservative Principles? Conservatism, like Liberalism or Socialism, is a mood of mind, of which the concrete application de- pends upon the circumstances of the hour, or, more cynically, upon the policy of the other side.
Youngsters may be surprised to learn that the Tory platform in Queen Anne's time was ausual parliaments, no standing army, and no interference in European polities This was merely the reac- tion against Marlborough and of waiting till the stream of life's Whig War.
Opportunism Introduced By Peel.
Sir Robert Peel was the first Prime Minister to introduce op- portunism. He carried the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,
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impressions have cut their full type plainly upon the mind. That is why it is so dangerous to give votes
REGISTER,
to persons under twenty-five, and HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL why I am so distrustful of the Prime Minister's sentimentalism.- A.A.B. in the Evening Standard.
Hong Kong Observatory, July 19th.
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field for archaeology from the air
Barometar...! in Arabia.
Temperature In future the archaeologist wil Humidity... certainly begin with an air suzycy | Wind- SECRETS REVEALED BY THE which will tell him where to look Direction
CAMERA.
Force and give him a good idea of what
Weather ... he is going to find.
The most remarkable discoveries Rain ... which have been made are due to signert open-air Temperature, 18th: 91 plants, which are sensitive to Lowast open-air Temperature, 19th: 81 alight differences of soil and moisture. For example, if a ditch
IN WESSEX AND ARABIA. ·
The extraordinary value and
B-Blue sky; Cloudy; D= romance of air photographs for the
has been dug on a chalk down and Drissle" F-Fog; L-Lightning; detection of ancient remains are
the down has afterwards been M-Mist; O-Overcast; P-Passing revealed in Messrs. O. G. 8. Craw
ploughed flat and sown with showers; Q-Squalls; É-Rain;. T- ford's and Alexander Keillor's
corn, for ever afterwards the Thender. "Wessex from the Air." It is a work of the greatest possible in-subsoil filling of that ditch differs terest, admirably illustrated with from the adjacent never-disturbed
soil. numerous photographs and dia grams of the important archeolo gical sites in Wessex.
The idea of carrying out an archeological survey from the air occurred to Mr. Crawford when he was acting as observer in the Royal Flying Corps during the war and to Mr. Keiller, who served as
same pilot. Simultaneously the
brainwave aeems to have affect- ed the Germans, for they sent Dr. T. Wiegand during their notual operations in the Near East to carry out an archeological survey of Southern Palestine and Sinai. His photographs of buried cities have been published:
It is this difference which is seen and, caught by the eye of the camera. On the ground the pic ture is marred because the eye is too close
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE.
From July 20th to 26th, 1928.
#Bing" WATER,
Days of
Date of
Hoog
Kong
Standard
·Time.'
Height
by
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V1 SINGAPORE,
YONSIGNEES per Co.'s Vessel
"NINGCHOW
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Hell's Wharf. The Carge will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 18th July,
Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unions Netics has been given prior to Vessel's arrival, bat carried on from port.to
port to the final port of call to which the option extends.
All broken, shaled and damaged Goods arm to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 M and Noos within the Free Storage period.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Vessel's Godown, and all Goods remaining undeliversá after the 24th July, wil be subject to Rent
"All Claims against the Vessel must be presented to the Undersigned an or before the 7th August, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents.
[6511
17th July,18%,
BRITISH INDIA S.S. CO.,
Fox KOBE & MOJI.
THE Steamship
LTD.
"TALAMBA"" having arrived from the above Porta, Consignees of Carge are hereby in- formed that their Goods are being inaded and placed at their risk in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns st Kow loon, where Delivery may be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Goods not cleared by 20th July, 1998, will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected" by us in any case whatever
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for esamination by the Con.. ignees and the Company's surveyors, Mears. Goddard and Douglas, at 10
... Mondays and Thursdays,
All Claims be presented within
must
..
Ten tay
of the Steamer's arrival here, which date they cannot after recognised.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the GodowILI. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Hong Kong, 13th July, 1929. (6497
COMPAGNIE DES MESSA- GERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE, 8.8. "LT. ST, LOUBERT BIE,
BRINGING CARGO Frox DUNKIRK, ANTWERP, BOTTERDAM, LONDON, 40.
NONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Trassure and Vainsbles are being landed and stored into the Go downs of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd, Kowloon, whence Delivery may be obtained im having arrived, Consignées of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goods are in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf being landed and placed at their risk mediately after landing, sent in to me en er before Friday, the 27th July, 1928, and Godowa Company's Godowa or they will not be recognized. Kowloon, where Delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed.
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless
has been given prior to Steamer arrival
"SAARLAND '
Steamship
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods remaining nadelivered after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all 26th July, 1928, will be subject to Rent
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on 25th
be
Damaged Packages will be examined the Company' Surveyors, Messrs. oddard & Douglas in the presence of the Consigneet at 10 am, on Tuesday, the 24th July, 1929,
No Fire Insurance will be affected by
in any case whatever.
L. LESDOS, Agent
Hong Kong, 18th July, 1928. (6513
July, 1928, at 10am. by our Surveyor", SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
All Claim must reach us before the 10th August, 1928, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected Hills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned,
JEBBEN & CO. Agenta Hong Kong, 18th July, 1928. [618
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTISE,
8.5, "ANDRE. LEBON."
BRINGING CARGO From MARSEIL. LES, &c., Auso › CABGO FROM COGNAC, BORDEAUX, E. 8.9. "TETUAN" & 8.8. "MEINAM.”
"ONSIGNEEZ® are hereby informed
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. Cather Goods with the exception
THE REN LINE STEAMENS. LIMITED.
FROM HIDDLESBRO', ANT- WERP, LONDON, 6TBAITS AND PHILIPPINES.
The Steamship" BEN YOHR."
LOW WATKE.
CON
Hong
Kong
Hoight.
Standard C
Timas,
of Opium, Tressure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co, Ltd., Kowloon, whence Delivery
abtained immediately
MAY be
after landing.
All Glims must be sint is to me on
or before Thursday, the 26th July, 1928,
or they will not be robeeramined by
MES
NONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby the Company Surveyon
informed that all Goods are being Goddard &. Douglas in the presence landed at their risk into the hazanicus of the Consignees at 10 am, on and/or extra hazardous Dodowns of the Monday, the led July, 1929.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by
Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and
Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or
the
the harves, Delivery may be obtained No Olaims will be admitted after hmi Goods have left the Godawans, and all 20 03750m 41751 Good remaining undelivered after the
m1107.36 17.07 28th Instant, will be subject to Rent, 211 17 1 67.3% All Claims against the Steamer must
6 661 be mil 45 68
pranted to the Undersigned on er 1:58 426, 13 before the 9th prosimo, or they will not 0 28617 28-16 be regis
The majority of our prehistoric sites were seamed with ditches and pits dug for drainage, storage, habitation, defence, or boundary, purposes. Many exist to-day on the downs, undisturbed and turf-covered; many more Fri. have been fattened by cultiva tion. All of the. Istter can be re- Bat. "discovered by air photography
provided only that the arable has Sun. not been allowed to revert to
Mon, 23 m gram Even then traces of the The results are not remark-
ditches are sometimes visible, Taen 25 m able. The plan of each of these
Some of the photographs are won- now-doserted cities can be seeIL at aglaacs with astonishing clear- derfalas, for example, that of the Wed. 25-m ness Streets, churches, court complicated system of pro-Romsa yards, gardens, and fields are works at Badbury. There is no Thur. 26 evident. Most certainly there doubt that they open a new world is a vast and almost unexplored to the researcher.
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LLESDOS, in any case whatever
Agent." Hong Kong, 17th July, 1928. [6510
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HONG KONG HANSARD RE
All broken, shafed sad damaged Goods: PORTS of the MEETING 8173id to be left in the Godowne, here they of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
will be examined on the 25th instant, for the Session 1927.
25 146m 8.26-13 1
4.8
8 59 6
9.489 4 8 5 9 mil $432 VG 613.9] -10 29 ₪3 2
3.304.2
by Mon. Goddard & Douglas.. at 10 am,
Na Fire Insurance has been effected, a Bill of Lading will be countersigned by GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. We hebben Agmia. Hong Kong, 19th July, 1928. (6518.
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