..
LOG BOOK.
"The Position of the Merchant Navy
A most serious state of things in regard to the position of the British Mercantile Morine is re- vealed; by Mr. Geoffroy Drage, who utters a note of warning which our statesmen cannot afford to neglect. He shows that while the number of British seamen in the mercantile navy is deorossing, the number of foreigners employed in British, ships is increasing, and that now, no fewer than 40,000 foreigners are to be found there.
Ho quotes the preamble of the Morohant Shipping Act of 1844,
which states that."
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY AUGUST, 21 1911
but not before he himself had dis-
posed of several of his assailants. He was the elder broiler of Sonor
Intimations
Isidoro Ibalagu, an old and respect AERTEX
ed Spanish resident of Manila, and whose only son is at present studying English in Singapore. The Passing of the Sailing Ship
Mails,
PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STRAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
CELLULAR. W dispatch VESSELS to the Underment and Ps
for
Tho final disappearance of the COOLEST & MOST COMFORT sailing ship appears to be fast
ABLE UNDERWARE approaching, and unless it can be made to pay by fitting it with oil ongines as auxiliary power, as has THE SUMMER been done to large sailing ships in one or two instances, it his been shown that it cannot compete with the steam driven vessel.
The 1910 report recently publialied of the Visurgis Roodere Company of Bremen, owning a considerable fleet of sailing The prosperity, strength, and vessels, shows that this company safety of the United Kingdoma, tlo had a disastrous year, and there largely depend on a large, con las lately been published a list of stant, and ready supply of seamion, some 120 sailing ships, which and it is therefore expedient to passed from the British Register promote the increase of the during a period of fifteen months. number of soamen and to afford On the Clyde it is considered them all due encouragement and that if the list of sailing ships protection.
continues to decrease as it is Novertholosa, while British mer-been doing during the past twelve obant tonnage was trebled in the months, the fept will cease to Last half of the nineteenth century, exist at the end of one year. Forly- the number of British seamen one of the ships have been sold or engaged in the mercantile marine otherwise dispool of within the decreased 25 per cent, and its past year, and at least a dozen young men and boys 85 por more are said to be for salo. cont, In 1880 the estimated.
number had fallen to. 60,700; E. C. Wilks, M.I.M.E., A.M.N.A. while in 1901 there were Con ulting Engineer and Smveyor fo only 44,390. From a later Bluo contrustion, Valuer and Asressor for Book it appears that the numbers purchase, or fale, of Ste mship; or in 1908 was 34,052. In 1904 it estimated that there were 40,000 foreignore in the British mercantile marine earning, two millione sterling in wages,
WOR
Mr. Drage points out, in a letter to the "Times," that ine- much as we own something like half the mercantile tonnage of the
Lanclira.
ESTADIA Buildinde, 2ND FLOOR. Hongkong, 1st May, 1971. $1100
CTE. LOUVENCOURT EXTRA DRY, $24.00 por caso..
FRENCHI STORE, 6 Queen's Road. on plane. 17th Jane, 1911,
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world, and as the bulk of our raw DRAGON CYCLE
materials and two-thirds of the
food we eat mo transported frou across the sons, it is a national reproach that ses training is the only form of technical education for which no organic public system exists. It is, moreover, in wapocial senso a national dangor," because¬ the conversion on of merchant ships into warships on the high seas in time of war is not prohibited by international agreement, and our rivals are pertain to make use of this mode of warfare shqyld ocension arise. Presumably the Admiralty will in time of war'pro- | vide, as formerly; armaments for
DEPOT,
ELECTRICIANS.
:
HIGH GRADE
J. T. SHAW,
TAILOR AND OUTFITTER, Hongkong Hotel Bulidings,
Qacon's Nd. Contral." [1258-
AK TRAMWAYS 00. LIMITED.
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TIME TABLE.
"
WEEK DAYS. 7.00 wim, to 8.00 a.m. Every 15 min. 8.00 .. to 10.00 0. 10 mín. 19.00 am to 11.00 .. 11.30 o.m. to 12.45-p.m. 12.45 p.m. to 1.10 p.m. 1.15 p.m. to 1.46 p.m. 1.45 p.m. to 2.13 p.m. 2.16 p.m. to 6.00 p.kl. 5.00 p.m. to 8.10 p.m.
NIGHT CARS
the DATES-named-st
ron
LONDON & ANT-NORE............ WERPY.S'rony, 150 Capt. G. Philips. Praña, Ox,
PORT SAID AND SOCOTRAVERTISS MARIBILLES ****
SHANCHAL
MOJI," "KOBE
·
Shipping-Steamers,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.
Higliest Ulpas, Fastest and Most Luxurione Slowmen on the Coari, häri |«bgu || splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers. Electro Liglite. Ezoellent
Cuisine.
DANEMARKS:
Freight and
Paesago.
BAIL ON.
24th Aug. About
Freight only.
G...J. Coldwell........................ ] 0th Sept. | .-- SUZDA
About Freight, and YOKOHAMA Capt. H. G. Evans, ... 24th Aug, Passago
...Abont: Feight and SHANGHAI DELTA...
Capt. E. P. Martin.............. } V1st Aug. )- Passage. LONDON, RIAATOIDIA ..........................................
Noon, See Special USUAL PORTS OF Y
2nd Sept.) Advertisement Capt. Barcham...eres CALL
For Further Particulars, apply to
P. & 0. 8. N.' Uo.'s office, '
Hongkong, 21st August, 1911.
E..A. HEWETT,
Superintendent.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD
BREMEN.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW AND RETURN,
(Oocopying 9 to 10 days.) - CAPTAIN AME
LEATING,
STRAMBŘIPOJ
Halyang || Capt. J. W. EvaDU ... ]. TUESDAY, Halching. Capt. W..O. Fassmors. FRIDAY Haltan. Capt. J. S. Roach TUESDAY,
22nd Aug, at 1 r. 25th: Aug,, at 1 P{" 20th Aug., at 1 F.M
FOR SWATOW AND RETURN (Occupying 3. Daya), Haimun ....... | Copi. &. II. Stewart... | TUESDAY, 22nd Aug, at 8 p.
During the months of JULY and AUGUST, RETURN TICKETS ilable for three months will bo fssuod at a in lustion of 20% on the usual rate t Foochow
0571.
Bleamers will arriro at, and depart from the Co,'s Wharf near Blake Pior.
For Freight and Passage, apply to y
Consignee
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
"HE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer
THE
"ARCADIA "
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO
AND STRAITS,
Douglas, Lapralk & Co., General Managers.
ENTAL
COMP
Consignees of Cargo by the above- The Peninsular & Oriental
named vessel are hereby informed that
their goods are boing landod and placed
at their risk it the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com-
Steam Navigation
I'
Company.
10 IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINÉS, pany's Godowns at Kowloon, where STEAM FOR STRAITS, OEY-
"
15 min.
พ
15 min.
**
min.
20
10 min.
15 min.
10 min.
8.45 p.m. and 9 pm., 9,46. pim, to 11.30 p.m. every 15 minutes. SUNDAYS.
5.00 sm. to 10.30 am, overy 15 min. 10 min. 10.30 am to 11.00 am. ». 11.45 mm. to 12.00 noon 15 min. 10 min.
12.00 noen to 1.00 p.m.
1.00 pin. to 3.00 p.m., 5.00 p.m. tu 6,00 p.
6.00 pm to 7.00 pm
7.00 p.m. to 8.10 p.m.
FOR
STEAMERI
JESSELTON, KUDAT & ƒa BORNKO ".
SANDAKAN. ... Cap. F. Sembill
TO BAIL ON
...5,050 (THURSDAY,
(24th Aug., 10 ̊ A.M.
About TUES. DAY, 22nd Aug
#1
KOBE & YOKOHAMA Cap: I. Klugkist...6,30
** CORT.RN 2",
11
15 min.
10 min. SHANGHAI,
15 min.
10 min.
TAUF! KOBE YOKOHAMA
TSING- And
"BULOW"
10,900
. Capt. H. Formes,
About WEDNES- DAY, 23rd Aug,
NIGHT CARS as on Work Days.
SATURDAYS.
Extin Cars at 11.43 p.m.
SPECIAL CARS.
By Arrangement at the Company's Offee. Alexandra Buildings,
Des Voeux Rord.' OHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
General Managers, Hongkong, 16th June. 1911.
Steam, Oil, Gas and Motor SUN
Engineers and
Rickshaw Builders
REPAIRS TO
"ypewriters, Bicycles, l'hono- graphs, and all kinds of Electric Goods and Machinery
'PTIONE 482.
GLASSES.
Any tint made to any prescription. No charge for testing sight.. Repairs of all doscription made by competeat workmen.
N. LAZARUS,
Ophibalmle Optician,
·14, D'Aguilar Street, Hongkong. Hongkong, 24th July, 1911.
PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CÓ. LD.
merchant ships, but the crews of No. 63, Des Voeux Road Central. THE CHINA
British merchant ships are now
Managing Proprietor:
often composed of mors unskilled (1)
C. LAURITSEN.
labourers without training or dir-
'cipline and with absolutely no RIGHTS, DUTIES & LIABILI
TIES OF SHAREBROKERS.
knowledge of gunnery or the arts
of war.
CAPITAL. PAID ur...$1,250,000.)
$0.
kong should road the series of Loans made on the Provident System articles appearing.
1
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBBAL- TAN... ... ... SOUTHAMP- TON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG
| MANILA, ANGAAR;
**KLKIRT "*
17,000
Capt. I. Mans-
each Consignment will be sorted out- Mack by Mark and delivery can be obtained as the Goods are landed. This vessel brings on Cargo:
From London. &o, ox
"Moultan."
LON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITER- RÁNEAN PORTS.. PLYMOUTH AND LONDON,
B.THROUGH BILLS OF LADING" Isaugo
FOR BATAVIA, PanolaN GULT, Continental, ÅMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICA. PJBTS.
Steamship
·
From Fersian Gulf, ex 8,8. B, I. B. N. and B. & P. S. N. Co.'s Steamers. Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions are given to the sontrary within 6 hours.
Goods not cleared by the 28 rd Inst., at 4 p.m., will be subject to rent.
No Fire Insurance will be affected by mo in any onse wlintover.
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examinatian by the 23rd August, Consignees and the Company's ur Toyors, Messrs. GODDARD and DOUGLAS, at 19 A.M. on MOXDAYS and TEURE DATE. All claims must be presented within ten days of the stomer's arrival bere, after which date they cannot be recognised. No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
E. A. HEWETT,
Saparintendent. Tongkong, 18th Aug. 1913.
WEDNESDAY,
at Noon
TUES
YAP, NEWGUINEA, “ COBLANA ”....................................... . { Abouj BRISBANE, BYD- Capt. L. Kinglist, 6,769 DAY, 22nd, Aug. 'NEY & MELBOURNE,
All the steamers of the European Line are fitted with Wireless Te's reaphy, Now System of Telefunkco.
For further Partionlars, apply to
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD MELCHERS & CO.,
E4:
To Sail 'INDRA" LINE, LIMITED. ́FOR NEW YORK via SUEZ
CANAL
(With liberty to call at Malabar Coast).
GENEBAL AGENTS, HONGKONO and CHINA
Hongkong, 21st Augart, 1911.
[7
[
HE Steamship..
INDRADEO,"
A. P. JEANNOU, 15, Queen's Road Central Captain W. H. Las, will be despatci el
Just arrived a Large Stock from Italy, MACARONI, VERMICELLI and SPAGHETTI,
in Packets of 1 lb, and in Boxes of 45 lbs.
[1220
THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &o.
Head Office for the Far East 18, DES VEUX ROAD, HONGKONG, EHANGHAI: 2-8, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA: 82, Water Street, TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP
is above about 20th.inst.
This stomter, has excellent accom- modation for a limited number of first class passengers, and attention. in directed to the moderate rates of{ Passage money charged,
for Fright or Passage, apply to JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LD. Agenta. Hongkong, 441 Ang., 1911. [1996
"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LIMITED.
FOR LONDON, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP.
Steamship
THE Sto
** CARMARTHENSHIRE,"
THE
"ARÚAÐ A
captain B. Barchan, exrrying He Majesty's Malls," will be despatched om this for Bombay, &c. on SATUR- Noon, taking passengers and Cargo DAY, the 2nd September, 1911, for the above ports in connection with the Company's .. "Mongols, 10,000
e, from Colombe, passangers' scoom-- odation in which voel in secured be- fore departure from Hongkong
France, Tea and Cargo for London(under Bilk and Valuables, all cargo for rangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into the mail steamar proseed- ing direct to Marseilles 'und- London; other cargo for London, do, will be. conroyed via Bombay by the ma " Arabia," "duo in London on the 14th -- October, 1911..
Parools will be received at this Office 4 r.. the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages ar fuquired.
For further particular, apply to
E. A. HRWETT, Superintendent,
Hongkong, 21st August, 1911....
To Let
...TO LET,
ODOWNS at BLUE
46, Praya East.
Возьорка,
"OREGGAN," 89, The Peak.
- No. 10, MACDONNELL ROAD,
·GODOWNS, 181 to 155, Phaya
EAST. SEMI-EUROPEAN
FLATE
East corner of "Observation Place. The Trams stop at the
Also NEW EUROPEAN FLATS adjoining the new: Berman'i Fantitate, Praya East.
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND, INVESTMENT & AGENOT Co., LIMITED.
Captain R. L. Daniel, will be despatched Hongkong, 1st July, 1911., [159
as above on 29th Inst.
Loans on Mortgage of House Property
onda received on Storage. VERY Man and Woman in Hong- Advances made on Merchandise.
Rates and Paittoulars on application).
LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. THE OFFION OF TRUSTEE, EXECUTOR OF TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD.
BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest raiço, WILLS, ATTORNEY, &o.,
LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and directed to the excellent accommodation Undertaken and Exeonted.
CASHED. SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.
FOREIGN MONIES exchanged. General Menega'ni, flenskena. 19th March, 1908.
(41992]
in the
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
no
The Rigure, Duties and Liabilitira OF SHAUROKER!
"It is the fashion'in such enses,' die goes on, "to talk of national decadence, but the difficulty is "not with the rising generation. Having been ever since 1898 closely associated with the man- agement of a training ship (the Exmouth), from which 3,300 boya of the poorest class have passed
Two Artioles have already appoared, into the Royal Navy and 3,800bsele anmbers can be obtained on
into the mordantile marine, I can say from personal knowledge not only that there is no diminution in the energy, endurance, and love of the sea of English boys, but also that they compare favourably with those of foreign countries with which, as a practi- gal administrator, I feel obliged to keep in touch
The " nw in c'early stated. -
The Faults of the Hongkong system iticised.
plication.
Further instalments will appear on Salard ye until completion of the seriess
Don't Miss Them, › They will interest |
you deeply, and are worth proserving,
HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,” 47, Dos Vœux Road Central, Hongkong. 8 Ang.. 1911.
[3804
WING KEE & CO. 47-48, Connaught Rd.
The Late Senor Paco Iboleon.
The homeword Spanish mail steamer Isla de-Panay left Manila on August 12 en route to Liverpool via the usual ports of A LING & CO. call. On board the Isla de Pandy are the coflined romains of Senor
SHCHANDLERS,
PROMISION & COAL
MERCHANTS,
"Hongkong, 98ed Mar. 1913. - 199
Paco Iboleon, a Spanish officer in
"FURNITURE. AND PHOTO
SUPPLIES
ENLARGING
the Philippines, who daring the DEVELOPING, PRINTING AND
clast revolt was foully murdered |
* by a band of Filipino insurrectors
1883
GRAVING DOOK.
UNIT OFFICE:-LUNGATE UIUCU-8, LONDON, E.0.-
SHIPBUILDERS, 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 Rolling Stock, Bridges, and all Classes of Engineering, Iron and Wood Work Electrical Drive; Hydraulic & Pneumatic Tools
installed throughout the Works.
50-ton Hydraulic TESTING MACHINE
for Oliainn Wire Roper, Rivets
and Metal Specimens.
HIS
DOCKYARD & ENGINEZKESOO
7871 by 88ft by 84ft. 0 in. Pampa amply Dock in... 2 8-4 hours
DOCKYARD. HONGKONG
OF. HONGKONG, » LIMITED.
THREE PATENT SLIPWAYS. fak ng rosals up to 8,000 tons-
coment, providing conditions for punting ships with most efficient result"
100-Tox ELECTRIO CRANE or QUAY→→ ELECTRIC OVERHEAD OBANKS THROUGHOUT. Tun Suore Bandito ve to 100 Toxa
Ostimates given for Docking, Repairs to Hull and Mach
onstructional Work
TEMANAGERS ANDLÄGENTS
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
(GIINA & JAP.
CO
Addres
TAIK
DOCK
The sitention of Passengers in
TO LET.
provided by this steamer at moderate TODOWN No. 64. Döddult rator, A. Doctor and Stewardos ato STREET. carriel, and all cabins are fitted with | Apply to— electric fans.
EN THE HONGKONG LAND
INVESTMENT & AGENCY
langkong Ist July, 19.11.
For Freight or Passage, apply to JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD COMPANY LIMITED.
·Agents, Hongkong, 17th Aug, 1911. [180) Hongkong - Boston & New York.
AMERICAN-ASIATIO 8.8. 00.
FOR BOSTON NEW YORK, va
PORTS & HULZ QANALER (With liberty to, call at the Malaber Dones), 9.8. KATUNAMISKINANA
on or about 6th Baptember, 198)
TO LET
GODOWNS &
ODOWNS in MASONS" LANE
other articfor,
Rent/moderate.
The BUILDING now in oasupation
of The Mercantile Bank of India to be
At frim Tat: January, 1912.,
Apply to
DAVID BASSUON & TH Hongkong, 12th July, 1911 [1087
TSANG KWON
COMPANY
ELECTRICAL AND GAS CONTRACTORS;
For Freight and farther information (280)
SHEWAN,TOMES & 05/**
Hongkong: 14 Aaya 1911, [1818