Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6 1909.
Intimation.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
BREMEN.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
YOKOHAMA and KOBE
́STKAMERA'
1PRINZ SIGISMUND, ".........
Capt. U. Lees insemineu 14.
NAPLES. GENOA ALGIERS,DERFFLINGER
GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, Capt. G. Meiners ANTWERP and BREMEN
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) "LUTZOW"
and YOKOHAMA Capt. C. Dewers
MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,
BRISBANE, SYDNEY 'and}
MELBOURNE `.........
KUDAT and SANDAKÁŇ.
"PRINZ SIGISMUND"
Capt. D. Leozoomopronta
TO SAIL
About FRIDAY,
8th January.
Widthjof
No. 1 DOCK. **Length inside 514 ft. y entrance, top 95 ft.; bottom 75 1. Waterion blocks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 875 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blooks, 26.5 ft. Time to pump out, 2 hours..
THESE DOOKS are conveniently sliusted in Yokohama barbour and the attention of Omptalos and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machlaety of every description..
The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly, and cheaply with work and large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by WEDNESDAY
Noon, 13th January. } Lloyds' surveyors).
About THURSDAY,
14th January.
THURSDAY,
SP.M., 28 January
" BORNEO ".
1
Capt. F. Sembill
End of January.
- For further Particulars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD:
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG" & "CHINA,
Hongkong, 4th January, 1909.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
7-
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.
STEAMERE CAPTAINS TO BAIK ON FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA ... POLENÉSIEN ..... Broc........................18th Jan, P.M. MAKSKILLES, VIĄ PORTS....TONKIN...Charbonnel... 19th Janjat i P..
15 Feb, P. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA.....OCEANIEN,.......... Magoco MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS SYDNEY Rebulat zod Feb., at I Pl,
Transhipment on the Oo's Steamers at Singapore for Batavia; at Colombo for Calcuita, Bombay and Australla; at Port Said for the Levaar, Constantinople and Black Sea.
....
Through Tickets to London via Paris from £17.10 up to £71,10, 20 hours' rallway, from Mamellies to Landon,
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Luterpreters most passengers at thefs anival in Marseilles.
For further particulars, apply to
Hongkong, 5th January, 1009;
P.
CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,
"QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Steamer.
TJIMAHI ..............| JAVA.
TJILIWONG JAPAN
TIIKINI JAYA TJILATJAP... JÁVA TJIBODAS JAYA
TJIPANAS
JAVA
REGULAN TERKE-WEEKLY SERVICE
BETWEEN
JAVA, CHIŇÁ¡, AND JAPAN,
From
Expected ou or about
Will leave for
Ist half Jaa. SHANGHAI
1st half jan,' | JAVA'
and half jan, || JAPAN
rst half Feb. SHANGHAI
1st half Feb. JAPAN
15! half Feb. SHANGHAI
On or about
rat bal Jan.
1st half Jan,
and hat! Jan, jat hall Feb.
Ist half Feb.
1st half Feb;;
The Steamers are all fitted throngheat with Electric Light and have Accommodation for.
a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Parti
on through Bille of Ladleg.
For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to
:
Telephone No. 375;
t
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
YORK BUILDINGS, 18t foar,
Hongkong, 4th January, 1909.
WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP
COMPANIES.
HONG'E ONG.WUCHOW
THE Steamers
LINTAN" and "SAN-UI".
LINK
SAIL FROM Hongkong TWICE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIF in 4 Data. These stomers have' Excellant 'Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity, an dem Nagaraja
THE GLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS IS
· VERY FINX AND EXHILIRATING.
For further information apply to--o:
BUTTERFIELD"
WIBL
WEST RIVES BRITISH 5.5
Two powerful Twie Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out if Dock, and for taking Salling Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable of liftlug 15 toss.
Steam Launches of Staal or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings" and Roofs, Bridge Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the promises.
4.
Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be guaranted.
The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that of any port in the world,
Telephone: Noa. 876, 606, or 681.
Telegrams, “ Book, Yokohama," Codes A. B. C., 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Scotts, A. 1, and Watkins. Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905, :
Shipping Steamers:
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON AND KOUANG-SI.
5.5. "PAUL BEAU,”. 1,900 tons,; 14 knots,
P.. "OHARLES HARDOUIN," '1,900 1005, 14 kaota,
The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and phoctual steamers on the llar. Departure from Hongkong at 10`P.M. (öaturdays excepted). Departure Com Cantón at 5.1.5 (Sundays excupied)."
These stiperb
BAILWAY AND COMMERCIAL HNTERPRISE IN CHINA,
At the London Institution, Finsbury circus, last month, Lord Ronaldshay, M.P., delivered. lecture on "Railway and Commercial Enter prise in China at Dawn of the 20th Century,"
After alluding to the enormous mineral re- sources of the country, he said that, at the present time, the vast area of the counity was traversed by thousands of miles of medieval communication, but it was in the direction of improved communications that China was making most headway under the stimulus of here her growing ambition.
The first railways which were built were constructed, controlled, and owned by foreign Governments, but China soon became alive to the danger of thead political, wenpops in the. hands of the foreigner.
After the war between Russia and Japan
the changed attitude of China towards Eu- Since the Canton Kowloon loan agreement, rope was reflected in her railway agreements loan contracts had been arranged for the con
railways struction of two other important namely, for the Tientsin-Ningpo line. In these cases the loans were guaranteed by the Chinera Government, but the railways themselves wate not mortgaged as security, and the European experts had no position except that of "em- ployees" in the service of the Chinese Railway Administration.
He was by no means certain that the average. investor in these twa ventures realized how great was the change to the conditions under which he had invested his money, and probably when it did dawn fully upon him he would make’up his mind that next time the Chinese wanted bis money they would have to offer him some. thing more than an Imperial edict by way of security,
THE DISINABRITED.
A REMEDY AGAINST ECCENTRIC WILLS, Nowadays there are societies for the protec tion of everything and everybody. An associa tion already exisis for the Amelioration of the Lot of the Cucumber; another protects the Middie Classes; a third keeps a watchful eye upon sardina tine, and a fourth wages perpetual warfare upon Fogi.
'The latest addition to the list is a society, of which Mr. G. W. Bower, of Moorgate-st., in secretary, to protect the sons and daughters of parents who have made absurd or "cranky" wills. As everybody knows, Somerset House simply bulges with wills of that hind'; and these are incontestable in the Probate Court'except on -the gmunds of insanity or "undue infi poncs." There is no doubt that soas and daughters and next-of-kin are frequent suffereres by season of the quaint twist so often existing in the minds of testator and testatrix.
mers caring the Franch Mall are fitted throughout with Electric Light his just and legal heirs it is discovered that he ind Fans and word Epacially bulli (or this fade. Excellent cuistar.
The Company's On Wharf der Wick Lok Street and its barth la Cuaten opposite
.Shemeco.
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For further particulers, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Canton,
or to their Agents BARRETTO & 00., `Hongkong,
Bóngkong, 9th October, 1908,
Intimations.
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Mr. Bawer explains that for an earthly cogent reason a rich man may die leaving behind him a will of the weirdest kind, and children who naturally expect to inherit his fortune, Then bis will is divulged, and to the amazement of has left his all to the development of some freak idea like the development of the cork-am Indgetry, or Christian Science, or providing foot@armers fordost Druids on Salisbury. Plain, That there is no end to these, testamentary absurdities is apparent, every week' at tha pro- pounding of wille in the Probate Court...
A FORTUNE FOR THE BIRDS. Only a few years ago an unnatural baturalist died and left a large family-and a large fortuna-behind him. He was an eccentric old Beatleman, with a passion for pottering about the English coast line and watching meditative- ly the engaging movements of the seagulls Kis will was a monumental testimony to bis extreme kindness of heart and bis extreme solicitude in the matter of sea-birds. He bequeathed vast sums for the benefit of every kind of gull known to British orajthology,
STORMW.
NINGS
FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS
Meteorological signals are hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Station at Teim Bha Teal for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port. Ther necessarily imply that bad weather is expect
Signal
A CONE point opwards
„AYA CONR
polat upwards and WEUM below
A DRUM
A COBE point down wards and DRUM below
SA COKE, point dowa-
7.
'A CONE point down. wards and HALL below
A BALL
-8.
A CONE polat opwards and BALL below
Indicatas ä Typhoon to the Worth of the
Colony
indicatesa Typhoon, to the Horth-East "of the Colony,
indicates a Typhoon
to the Fast of the Colony.
indicatosa Typhoon to the Southeast of the Colony.
indicatesa Typho to the South of the: Colony.
Indicates a Typhoon
to the South West of the Colony.
Indicatena Typhoon to the West of the Colony.
indicates Typhoon
to the North Wort of the Colony,
· Red Signals indicate that the centre is bafieved to be more than goo miles away from the Colony.
Black Signal, indicate that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away from the Colony.
The above signals will, as heretofore, be hoisted only when typhoons exist in such positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding them is considered to be of importance to the Colony or to shippi g leaving the karbour,
These signals are repeated at the Harbour Offics, H.MS. Tamar, Green, laland Signal Blast, and the Fingstaff on the premises of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company at Kowloon.
URGENT-SIGNALA/–
"In addition to the above, when it is expected that the wind may increase to full typhoon force at any moment, the following Urgent Signal will be made at the Water Police. Station, and repeated at the Harbour Office -- THREE EXPLOSIVE BOMBS, ÄT INTERVALS
OF TEN SECONDS"
'
...
A Black Cross will be hoisted at the same time, superior to the other shapes,
NIGHT SIGNALS.
He stated, in the amazing document that was harolled before the astonished eyes of bir legal hairs, administrators, and assigns, that for years, he had observed with pain'that in the winter the lot of the seagull was an uncom- monly unhappy one. Thoughout the long The following Night Biguals will be exhibit: wet, raging nights they had nothing to comforted from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water them; Wet and miserable and bedraggled with the flying foam and the tearing spume of the Atlantic, "toned on the billows of the raging wind," they often came to an untimely end, and died dismal, dagdripping deaths.
BONFIRES FOR SEAGULLS, Immeasurably sad was this. But alleviation was possible, and to that end this larga-hearted testator laid out his wealth, He directed that it was to be applied for the purppis af pros viding great coastline bonfires to be set blazing 00 wel, wistry nights,
TOP whereat cold and drenched seagulls might seek comfort and warmth, dry their feathers, and cheer their abuls at the welcome blaze. thereby lengthening their lives, and so maintaining one of the greatest attractions of our beloved, sea-girt Isle, Meanwhile this eccentric will maker's children could, staava for all Ae cared.se long as be beloved seagulls could benefit.. It was only on the eve of the granting of probate upon this amazing will that another and a later document was discovered whereby the fauna of our cliffs and rocks and beadlands were disinherited for some equally preposterous reason and the children of the rich defauts breathed again
HOME IN OTHER LANDS,
Police Station af Kowloon, the Harbour Offes Flagstaf, und H.M.S. Tamar,
indicates that a typhoon is believed to be 1. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green,
situated more than you filles from the Colony,
RELEAS
II. Thron Lights Vertical, Greed Rad Green, indicates that a typhooni is believed to be situated less than goo miles from the Colony..
15. III, Three Lights Vertical, Red Green Red, indicates that the wind may be expected to increase to full typhoon force at any moment,
No. III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosire Bombs, as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this aigual being first pablished by night
Thess Night Sigoals will be anbi the Day Signala at sunset, and. necessary, be altered during the
BUFFLEMEKTART-WARN
For the bensof of Native' Craft and passing This is only one instance out of many which Oceau Vossein, a Cone will be exhibited Mr. Bower's new society socks to put to rights,
Mrs Bower says that England and 110land are each of the following stations during this time the only countries in the whole of the civilized that any of the above Day Signals see koir ed world that have to resistion upon the free in the Harbour,
disposition of property as death. Is Scotland a child cao always claim one-third of the estatej and even the Mahometans keep a tight band and a keen eye upon the cranky teater and take good caig that he does not leave his property to bescht some outlandlik idan to the bitimate distrachob and "dispossessment of his unfortufisio family.
To-day there are men driving four-wheeler in London who-bet for the eccentricity of their parents in the drafting of their last will and testament might be millionaires, with dear forests in Scotland and az choras girls for
SM? Bewar and bis society conserva, ovERY anccess in the grime: object which it in those.
Khould be given new powers to revise, notŐTÉZ
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