THE DECLARATION OF SHANGHAI MERCURY, LD.
LONDON.
I.M.S.G's Protest,
The following letter has been addressed to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, by Mr. T. W. Moore, the
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFH MONDAY JULY 3-1911
Intimations
WM. POWELL,
LIMITED.
GENTS' OUTFITTERS.
The Annual Meeting.
The eleventh Annual General Mooting of shareholders of the Shanghai Mercury, L., was bold yesterday afternoon in the Com pany's Offices in Nanking Road. There were present Messrs. G. W. Nool (chairman) C. Stophorius Secretary of the Imporiul Mer-and R. D. Neish (directors) Wm. chant Service Guild :—
W. Houle, T. Sahara and J. Mor-THE Sir, I am requested by the gau (Secretary) representing Guild, which is the great repre- 647 shares. The Chairman in sentative body of those command-his speech explained that Mr. Fink had been compelled to go
HUSSAR"
COLLAR
$5.00........ por doz.
PERFECT FITTING.
THESE
COLLARS are HAND DRESSED assuring a par- fect fit und a longer period of wearing thun muchino ironod.
Mails.
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY,
ITEANERA
TO TAIL ON
TABSATE...
"ILL despatch VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORTS on or abent
the DATES named----
gea na yba
BRKARKIS 10 rɔ, a Freight And SHANGHAI
1 Capt. G. W. Cockmann 8th July Passage. LONDON, DELTA
.........Noon, Soo Special USDAL PORT OF Capt. F. P. Martin; n.... 8th July Adrotisment SHANGHAI, Nons
MOJI; KOBE
& YOKOHAMA
WERP.8'ronn, Parano, O'no, Ponz SAID AND MARSEILLES ..... JHANCHA 1,) MOJI, KOBE,
&
LAN
Shipping-Steamers.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.
Highest Class, Fastast and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, faring plondid Accommodation for First-Clake Passengers.. Electric Light. "Excellent Uatrine..
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW AND RETURN, -(Ocenpying 9 to 10 days)......
STEAMSHIPS
CAPTAIN
LEAVINIA
17th July, at 11 ADG
11th July, at 11 A.M."
Haitan... Capt. . 8. Ranch......FRIDAY. Hatching... Cajit. W. O. Pastaiore TUESDAY,
Daning the months of JULY and AUGUST, RETURN TICKETS available for three months will be issued at a reduction of 20% on the usual rato to Foochow
About 19th
Capt. G. Philipps..........
July
Freight and Passage
NUBIA
W. F. G. Fox :
About 18th July
Freight and Ранкоце
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SOCOTDA
About
Freight, only.
YOKOHAMA Capt. F. L. Andros, ... 27th July,
For Further Particulars, apply to
ing and officering British; mer Home on extended love, through chant ships, to respectfully ill-health, and that Mr. Stepharius In all depths from itiu. to diu. LONDON & ANT- acquaint you of their regret that, hind boon solouted to fill his placo after mont careful consideration on the Board. Mr. Olnek, Manng- they find themselves eirongly op-ing Director, was also absont on posed to the ratification of the De- furlough. There was very little claration of London, and are com- Company. They had again lund. to say about the working of the polled to ally themselves with tho a prosperous year, the working great and powerful opposition accunat showing a larger profit which has been aroused against than the previous year. This such a step being taken. Our your, on the advice of their Auditors, they were making a arger provision for bad and doubtful debts. Thoy land added to their plant some new and most up-to-dato machinery during the year, and had also made Targo
annual report, which was adopted without question at the eighteenth annual meeting of the guild, held on Tuesday, the 7th March last, in dealing with this multer contains the following:-
WM. POWELL, LIMITED,
28, Queon's Road.
additions to jobbing typo and Hongkong. 16th June 1911. [1000 plant. On account of the writing
LIMITED.
TIME TABLE.
WEEX DATI.
+7.00 .m. t 8.00a.m. Every 15 min. |
8.00a.m. to 10.00 .m.
10.00 a., to 11.00 ■.m..
11.80 s.m. to 12.45 p.m. 12.45 pm to 1.15. p.m. 1.10 p.m. to 1.45 p.m.
1.40 p.m. to 2.10 p.m. 2.15 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. 3.00 p.m. to 8.10 p.m.
P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s office,
Hongkong, 3rd July, 1911. (19
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent.
Stomers will arrivo at, and depart From the Cofs Wharf none Blake Pior.
For Freight and Passage, apply to
Consignees
FROM EUROPE.
[4
THE HAL. Stamship
"SPEZIA,"
KORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
BREMEN.
Captain Fongs, baving arrived, C-
Douglas, Lapraik & Co., General Managers.
To Sail
FOR SHANGHAL
HE P. & O. S. N. Co.'s Stesmer THE
"ASSAYD"
signos of Cargo and bereby informed will leave for SHANGHAL that their goods are being landed and | THURSDAY, the 6th July, nt.8 vậ placed at their risk in the hazardous"
For Freight Lif Passage, apply to andjor extra-hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Go-
down Company, Limited, whence de-
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent.
livery may be obtained against Bills-of-Hongkong, 1st July, 1911. Landing countersigned by the Under-
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES signed.
FOR
1
10 ain 15 min.
15 min.
NAPLES, GENOA
"
10 min.
15 min.
10 min.
11
ALGIERS, GIBRAL- TAR, SOUTHAMP- TON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG.
15 min.
..
10 min.
"Our merchant servico land off they were not able to place to PEAK TRAMWAYS 00
very practical expérience teserve Fund quito so muchaslast of trostios and declarations year, or carry forward such a largo during the war between balance to working account, but Russia and Japan, when as there were practically no frosh British vessels were soized commitments to be met in the and annexed, or sunk, in near futuro, as thioro were fast the most flagrant manner, your, they had amplo funds in in defiance of all canons of hand to carry on satisfactorily. justice and fairplay to On. boing duly proposed and British intorests. There seconded the following rosolutions may be an isolated ense or were pussod:-That the Roport two whore some compen- and Accounts as published" bel sation has been agreed to but, in practically all these That two thousand taels be outrages, not a single half-transferred to Reserve Fund, ponny has been rocaverod and that the total amount of that a componsation, and fund be then placed on fixed. British shipowners and deposit with the Bank. British captains and offi- That, a final dividend of 6 cors have been subjected por cont. for the year ended to grievous lors. The April 30, making, with the British Government have interim dividend already paid, proved impotent in ol01 percent, per annum, bo payable aining any roal satisfac- to shareholders on the Register at tion. Moreover, we all this date. know that all sorts of inter-:
accopted and passed.
That a bonus be paid to the protations can be placed foreign stuff at present on the upon treaties or declara-active list in Shanghai at the same. tions whilst wor is actually rate as last year,
in progress. It is then
That the retiring Director, Mr. that the mischief is done, | Goo. W. Noel, be re-elected, a and anything that trans Director of the Company.
That Messrs. Lowe, Bingham
pires afterwards in the
way of claims for compen- und Matthows bo appointed Audi- sation is useless when it tore of the Company for the en-
may be that our Empire suing year. has been defeated and our
The meeting then ended with
flag lowered by a foreign a vote of thanks to the Chairman.
rival. In the event of a
war bronking out our rul-
nerability lies in our mer- GREEN ISLAND
cantile marine. Invasion
is nothing as compared
with the stoppage of our
food supplies. Foroigu rivals who may go so far as to challenge, by force of arms, our supremacy,] aro just as much alive t this as we are ourselves. Should they over como to strike they will striko where wo shall fool it
OEMENT
COMPANY, LIMITED.
PORTLAND CEMENT.
In Cacks of 375 lbs net. In Bags of 250 lbs net
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO
General Managers. Hongkong, 16th Ang., 1910, [80
moat, Declarations of Lon-JOHN THOMAS COTTON. don or other treaties not-
withstanding. It is no use
waiting for academic dis- VETERINARIAN & FARRIER
cussions on alleged violo-
tions of these treaties when
hostilitios are over and
(Qualified).
when wo ourselves may be No. 1, Queen's Road East, annihilated,"
In time of war this country must wholly depend upon mor- chant vassols for food supplies. As to what interpretation will bo put upon the term "noutrale" by our adversaries, it amounts to
a certainty that if sucly vessels
were not sunk or "destroyed they
HONGKONG,
29th April, 1911.
(1005)
WING KEE & CO. 47-40, Connaught Rd.
wald be captured or detained till SHIPCHANDLERS,
the purpose they were endeavour-
ing to serve proved useless. Fur-
ther, from the nature of the
NIGHT CARS.
8.45 p.m. and 9 p.m, 9.46 p.m. to 11.30 pm. every 15 minutes. SUNDAYS.
8.00 a.m. to 10.30 am. every 18 mio. 10.30 .. to 11.00a.m.
10 mio. 11.45 a.m. to 12.00 noon
15 min. 12.00 noon to 1.00 p.m. 1.00 p.m. to.. 5.00 p.m.
SHANGHAI, NAGA-
BAKI KOBE YOKOHAMA
STEAMERS.
"YouCK"............ 17.000 Capt. J. Randermann
and.
"Lurzow"
17,800 Capt. 1. Bortfolik..........................
MANILA, YAP, · AN- GAUR, NEWGUINEA, BRISBANE, SYDNEY
**
"
10 min.
& MELBOURNE
31
15 min.
15
10 min
15 min
KUDAT & SANDAKAN
+1.
10 min.
1
5.00 pm to 6.00 p.m. 4.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. 7.00 pm. to 8.10 p.m.
NIGHT CARS as on Week Days. SATURDAYS.
By
fי
Extra Cars at 11.45 pm.
SPECIAL CARS.
Arrangement at the Company's
Office. Alexandra Buildings, ` Des Voeux Road.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON
General Managers,
Hongkong. 10th June, 1811.
TO SAIL ON
(WEDNESDAY,
19th July, x1 Noon
*
About WEDNES- DAY, 12th July,
SATURDAY.
15th July,
at 4 г.x.
"Pasz SiotaMUND "'
Capt. 1, Bruning 6,000
ALPORN
BORNEO"
.......5,050 | 31ïdals of July. Capt. F.Sembill....
All the steamers of the European Line are fitted with Wireless Telegraphy. New System of Telefunken.
For further Particulare, apply 1
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, MELCHERS & CO.,
Hongkong, 20th June, 1911.
GENERAL AGENTS,"ⱭONGKONG and CHINA.
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Optional Cargo will be carried on unless notice to the contrary be given to-day.
All claims must be presented within ten days of the stomper's arrival hore, alter which date they cannot be re- cognized.
No cisims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods runining undòlivered after the Sed prox., will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafoj, and dansageid goods mast by luft in this Galow, where they will be examined on the 3rd prox., at 9.30 x.in.
be effected
No Fire Insurance will by us in any ciso wliatevor,
This stunner brings on cargo:
Exa.s. "Goteburg" fmin Gate-
borg,
Ex 8.5.
"Suzanno at Mario" from Bordeaux,
Ex .. "Dunls" from Skien. HAMBURG-AMERIKÁ LINIE.
Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 27th June, 1911. [957
· NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN. IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE.
'NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
DRAGON CYCLE A, P. JEANNOU, 15, Queen's Road Central. THE Steamship
DEPOT,
ELECTRICIANS.
Steam, Oil, Gas and Motor Engineers
and
Rickshaw Builders.
REPAIRS TO
Just arrived a Large Stock from Italy,. MACARONI, VERMICELLI and SPAGHETTİ, in Puckets of 1 lb. and in Boxes of 45 lba,
(1022
THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Typowriters, Bicycles, Phono-Head Office for the Far East -10, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONGKONG
SHANGHAI: 2-8, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA: 82, Water Birocl. graphs, and all kinds of Electric Goods and Machinery
'PHONE 482.. No. 63, Des Voeux Road Central
Managing Proprietor: 41]
ORIENTAL
STEAM
આ
Eth
The Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
STEAM FOR STRAITS, OEY- LON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITER RANEAN PORTS, PLYMOUTH AND LONDON,
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING 1830ND for Batavia, Continental AND AMERICAN PORTE.
المحيسن
*HE Steamship
T
** DELTA,” Captain E. P. Martin, carrying 'Hin Majesty's Tails, will be despatched from this for Bombay, &c., on SATURDAY, the 8th July, 1011, at Noon, taking parengora and Cargo In connection with the Company's na, "Manxoro," 10,500 tons, from Colom- bo. passengers accommodation in which rosel is secured before departure from Hongkong.
Bilk and Valuables, all cargo for France and Ton for London (under strangement) will be transhljpod at Colombo Into the mail stenu proceed-
." PRINZESS ALICE," having arrived, Consignees of sange areng direct to Marseilles and London; hereby informed that their Goods, with other cargo for. London, &c., will be the exception of Opium, Treasure and Egypt," das in London on the 20th conveyed_vis · Bombay by the s.. Valuables, are boing, landol and stored at their risk into the hazardous and/or August, 1911. extra hazardous God off and Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon. and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
2
Parcels will be received at this Office
until 4 r.. the day before sailing. The stents and value of all packages era required.
Vor farther particulars, apply to
E. A. HEWETT, Superintendent.
No alalina will be admitted after the Goods Involut the Godowns, and all Hongkang. 24th Jonë, 1911. goods remaining undelivered after the 4th of July, will be subject to rent.
All brokon, chafel, and damage)- Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will by examined on the
|- All'olaims - must reach us before the 8th of July, 1911, or they will not ba ropognized.
TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP | 4th of july, at 9.30a.m.
LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowrest rates.
CIRCULAR NOTES 188UED and LETTERS of CREDIT and
CASHED.
FOREIGN MONIES exclianged..
C. LAURITSEN.992)
SHIPBUILDERS,
PROVISION & COAL
MERCHANTS.
[00
GRAVING
DOCK
topography of these islands, our Hoe gkong 28ml Mar., 1911,
antagonists would hold that all
CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE 00. LD.
(CAPITAL PAID Ur...$1,250,000.) Lowe an Mortgage of House Property,
food supplies would ultimately THE serve our military bases More- over; the war in which we might engage would probably be with a great maritime rival, whose many merchant vossola would not be available for our purposes, and our chances of the assistance of gods received on Btorego. "Heutral" merchant vossale would | Advances made on Merchandise. be sadly limited.
Loans made on the Provident System. (Bates and Particulars on application).
We sincerely test that, oven though the Conference of Colonial Prime Ministers has mildly acquiesged in the ratification of the Declaration of London, the British Government will not persist in their intention to ratify,
&o
TuS Oshics or TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF WILLS, ATTORNEY, de,
Undertaken and ·Executed.;!)
SHEWAN, TOMES & CL
Ma General Managain," Hoogkong, 19th Marsh, 1908. [41]||
QUIRY OPTION —LUDGATE DINOUS, LONDON, E.C.
SALVORS AND REPAIRERS, BOILERMAKERS, FORGEMASTERS, BRASS AND IRON FOUNDERS, CONSTRUC TIONAL, ELECTRICAL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
Modern Appliances for quick construction and repair of Ships, Engines, Boilers, Hailway Holling Stock, Bridges, and all
Classes
of Engineering, fron and Wood. Work Electrical Drives, Hydraulic & Pneumatic Tools
installed throughout the Works.
TAIKOO DOCKYARD, HONGKONG OF HONGKONG, LIMITED,
787ft. by 88ft. by Bdft, 6 in."
50-ton Hydraulic TESTING MACHINE for Chains, Wire Ropes, Rivete
and Metal Specimens.
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING CO.
Pompe empty Dock in
2 9-4 hours.
THREE PATENT SLIPWAYS
taking vessels up to 0,000 tons
dieplacement, providing conditions for palniễng, ships with most efficient result
100-Tox ELECTRIC ORANE on Quar ELECTRIC OVERHEAD OBANKS THROUGHOUT Sun Suora Rangizo un to 100 Tona..
Estimates given for Docking, Repair to Hull and Machinery, Constructional Workeren. MANAOMAS "AND AGZETES
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Telegraphic Address roma
TAIKOODOCI
HONGKONG GRINA 4 JAPA
No Fire Instince will be affødele
**SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LIMITED.
FOR LONDON & ANTWERP,
DE Steamship
Bills of Lading will be countersignautin Cochrane, will be despatcand the undersignet.
TÚK STRANER- BUINOR CARGO. Ex .. Barbarigo" from Venize
· NORDDEUTSCHER LLOVIN, MELCHERS & CO.,
General Age Hongkong, 27th June, 1211-
To Sail
Regular Steamship Service
to New York,
• DENBIGHSHIRE,"
as above about 11th prox
For Freight or Passage, apply to JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD. Agents.. ^engkong, 17th Jons, 1911, '. [ 1200
MAN CHEONG, 15. WELLINGTON STREET CENTRAL, Hoxoxoxo, SWATOW DRAWING WORK. Gentlemen and Ladies'. TAILORS & OUTFITTERS.. Embroidery, Ponges Silk, Glass Cloth, Canton Bilk and Lares, de, As Hongkong, 28 January, 1911. -855
is PORTS and SUEZ CANAL ́E.C. Wilks, M.L.ME.. A.IN.A.
(With Liberty to Cali at Malalise
Coast).
Consulting Engineer and Surveyor for construction, Valter and Anisasor for the purchase, or sale, of Steamships or Launchtas. PhoPoD BAILING FROM HOMOKONG, ALEXANDIa Buildings, 2nd FLOOR.
FOR BOSTONJAND NEW YORK. 8.8. "LOVAT" (Bailing on or
{ about 7th July. For Freight and farther information, suply to
· DODWELL & CO., LTD)., De Agents, Hongkong, 29th June, 1911. [1287
Hongkong, 1+ May, 1911, [1100
A LING & CO.
FURNITURE AND PHOTO SUPPLIES.
DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND ENLARGING
Queen's Bond: