MESSRS. SETNA'S
THE SHIPPING BILL.
REPORT.
Massra, S. D. Setun and Co., in their report dated February 25,
state :----
An American View.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27] 1915
VOLUNTEER ORDERS.
Corps Orders issued, yesterday by Lient Col. A. Chapman, V. D., state:-)
Transfer-Pie. T. Yonog (Ste Corps Order No. 2 of 26.2.15) in allotted Corps No. 1750.
Parades-Parades for Satur- day, 27th instant; nil.
Programme for Marob.-5.15
Resignation. Reference Corpa The Administration's proposi-Order No. 1 of 25.2.15, Private tion to purchase and run, through F. J. Rodrigues number in 1651, Bengal Opiam: No sales are the medium of a Government instead of 1759 as stated therein. reported in the market. Clear controlled corporation, a fleet of ances are reported of about 2 merchant ships seems to us on cheats of Patas Now, 3 cheats of economic and political grounds Pains Old, in all about 5 chests, an attempt to borrow, or rather Uusold stock:-84 chests of hay, gratuiton's troable, says the Patna Now, 629 chastu of Pains New York Outlook. Ádvoostes Old, 120 chesis of Benares New, of this plan, put forward as a and 114 chests of Benares Old,measure for the temporary relief P.m.-Mondayı, N. O. O drill in all about 817 chaste, Sold but of American commerce, base on the Cricket Ground (or uncleared stock:49 cheats of their arguments on three points: Patna, New, 80 chests of The individual, citizens of the Patna Old, 18 cheste of United States have failed to Beusres New and 38 chests of develop an unsubsidized mer Benares Old, in all about 185 chant marine.. chests. Reported "closing quot- ations (per obest) are sounder D-- Patos Now $0325, Pains Old $9200, Bonares New $9050, Old $8950,
Malwa Opium.: -Sales nil Clearances are reported of about 13 oboete. Uneold took is estimated at about 547) chasis.
The war has left many idle hips along cur shoe that are advantageously purchase.
available for
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There is a pressing pead for neutral boltoma in which to oury American products to the shores of Europe and South America.
To those things President Wil- Bld. but ucel-ared atcek about b on in his Indianapolis aperob 200 chests. Reported closing attributed the rise in freight rates, quotations (per pioul) are as which, in some cases, be said, has ander: Malwa $9100 to $0200. bean tenfold.
Cotton: No sales are reported.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
REDUCTION IN PRICES
FROM 22ND FEBRUARY.
WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE REDUCED OUR PRICES OF :
LOCAL MEATS
AND
elsewhere as ordered)." Tuos- days and Thursdays, Nos. 1" and 2 Stations Artillery and Left: Section, M. G. Co.10 pdr. drill at Headquarters (or as otherwise ordered). Remainder. Tuesday, 2nd, Aiming Drill and Markstry Exercises under Company Com manders. Thursday, 4th,Skirmish- | ing under Commanding Officer, Tuesday, 9th, Squad and® Com- pany Drill under Company Com- mandare. Thursday, 11th, Bayonet Eghting ander Company Com- manders. Tuesday, 16th, Route March (Field Service Orderjunder Commanding Officer. Thursday, A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUE CHINA & CURIOS 18 h, Aiming Drill & Musketry Exercises nader Company Com-
OWN FED POULTRY.
NEW PRICE LISTS DATED 20th FEBRUARY 1935 CAN
BE HAD ON APPLICATION.
To-Day's Orders.
Corps Orders issued to-day by Lieat-Col, A. Chapman, V.D. atale:
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Tourist Agent's Estate.
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
GEO. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, SHARE & GENERAL. BRÖKER
(Being the property of the collectors, Kwong Yung & Co.) The Undersigned has received. instructions to sell by Public Auction on
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commencing each day at 2.30 p.m., at bin Sales Rooms, Duddell Street,
Large bronze vases, wine cups, incense burners, Sung. Jade, agate & porcelain bottles.
Green & red Jade Ornaments.
Old Pekin cloisonne vases & Incense burners.
Old lacquered screens with 5-coloured decoration & blackwood screens with blue & white & 5 coloured Kanghi & Klenlung porcelain plaques, pottery & porcelain pictures in- laid in wood etc., etc.
8180
Soochow red wood curio cabinets, side tables, flower stands etc.
(Full Particulars from Catalogue),
On view from Thursday, the 25th February, 1915. N.B.-The Undersigned will give 2-weeks' guarantee as to the genuineness of the articles effected. Terms: Cash on delivery...
WHAT HINDENBURG THINKS.
Sure of Saccess: no Verdict on War's Duration.
GEO. P. LAMMEFT, Auctioneer.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
Q.
Upholstery,
TENDERS.
. Unsold stook in estimated at It is true that the private manders. Tuesday, 23rd, Rife
about 2,700 packages. Closing citizens of America have in recent Exercises under Company Com Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, the 1st, 2nd & 3rd March, 1915,
Thursday, 25th, eported quotations:-$20 to 26 years failed to develop a foreign mandere,
merchant marine at all campar- Bayonet fighting under Company (per plon!)
A Valuable Collection of Antique China & Curios from Tadian Yern-Our market stile with that created by the Commanders. Tuesday, 30th, rated steady, and prices show as cit zone of either Germany or of Route March and Skirmishing Sung to Ming Dynasties & Kanghi to Towkwong Periods,
comprising: ~~ advance of $1 to 3 per bale all England. In the day's of the under Commanding Officer.
5-coloured, 3-coloured & Blue & White vases, plates, bowls round. Sales of about 5,000 clipper hips, American. com- Musketry at King's Park Range, bales comprising about 2850 bal merce carriera were the fastest and Signalling practices and Mosket cups & figures etc., etc.
Sang-de-boeuf vases, White "Goddess of Mercy,” Ming of No. 10, 1250 bales of No. 12. the best upon the seas. The pro-ry Instruction on Kennedy Road
Incense burners: : and 900 bales of Ne, 20, Unsold portions to which our coastwise Range as ordered. stock is estimated at about 48,000 traffic, protected from foreign bales. Sold but uncleared stock competition, has grown may be taken as evidence that we have is about 25,000 bilen.
Japanese Yern.: Sales are not yet lost the power to construct
Parades, Parades for Monday, ported of 2,000 bales of No. 20s or the ability to man a merchant At $110/120 per bale,
marine in this present day and 1st March:-5.15 p.m., N. O. O. Sundry Articles:-In iesparta generation. Therefore it may be drill at Headquarters. Sergi, esles are reported of onions, Lomaken for granted that controlling Bullock will attend. Remainder; bay, at $2 (per basket), onions, factors other than national, inea- nil.
"Dotail.-Orderly Officer to-day Madras, at 1 (per basket), parity are responsible for the kismiss at $21/24 (1er picul), absence of the American flag from and to morrow, Lient. Danby; lat Baflower at $15/19 (per picul), the high ens, Foremost among to 7th Marol (inclusive), 2nd Lt. uger at $12/15 (pre piul) there fct re may be placed our Cunningham Orderly Sergeant navigation law-lawe which to-day and to-morrow, Sergt. apricots at $21/24 (per picul).)
March place au American seaman at an Barlow; Ist to 7th bezour stone at $18/220 (per calty), borax at $25 (per picul), labourers which they deny to Am-furnish Guard to-night, Right advantage over his foreign co-(iuclosive), Sergt. Schnepal. To mavej at $15/18 (per picul), rozs oil at $80 (per picul), cloves at orican ship-owners. For obvious Section M. G. Co., to-morrow, 840 (per pical), sandal word at reasons not many thoughtful men Scouts Company; on 1st M-rub, $50 (per picul), myrambollame are willing to advocale a ropeal Scouts Company. at $13 (per pioul), four at $41 of these humanitarian features of (per bag, angoor at $10/21 (por our navigation lawe. Therefore pical), gum alibanum at $1/20 we must, with equal İrankuose,
Mr. Thomas Albert Cock, of The following official instruc- (per pical), and potebook at face the fact that by these same
Sealed tenders are invited for Dyeing, Dry- $120/130 (per pical). In exports laws our merchant companies are Senuowa Park, Grost Ryburgh, tiene issued to Ameriena agente purchases are reported in green placed at the same commercial Dereham, and of Hampstead, N. by the German Foreign Office benne at $44 to 51 (per picul), disadvantage with foreign vessels W., and of Ludgate-circus, E., have been received by the Mar- cleaning work and Miscellaneous articles for H.M.Naval Establish❤ galangal at $83 (per pisal), fire in which our States are now plus tourist agent, of Messrs. Thos, coni Company:-
Please cable at once to Lament for one year from the 1st crackera at $814 (per oxes), pre-fed which demand for their grow- Cook and Son, who died recantly Nacion (Buenos Aˆres): Wes at April next.
Tenders will be received at the serves at $4/5 (per box) and ing citizens the protection of at the age of 47, left unsettled pre-Hindenburg's headquartere. In-
perty to the value of £325,804. vermillion at $125/128 (per case), child labour laws,
vited to dinner, Bat at Hindon-Commodore's Office until noon on Both those who support and
burg's side, and he talked to me Monday, the 8th March, 1915.. those who condemn the Adminis
Forms of Tender may be ob- tained on tration'a proposition to purobase our ports, seems to us doully for two honra about the war.
I asked him about the duration Naval Store Officer, H.M. Naval application to the and ran a fleet of commercial dangerous.
of the war. He replied that it was Yard. vessele are united, upon the state. In the first place, under any ment that our foreign merchant circumstance the proposed ex- difficult to answer my question, marine has been a failure in the periment would be of more than but Hindenborg is confident about the steress of the Allies who are Commencing on Monday, Hong-past. To seek to make good this doubtful commercial value, Fong theatre-goers are to be given failure by the launching of a But at this particular junciare it vigorously fighting before War a great treat, for on that night Government flest to compete with involves a risk which it would be saw. The Germansare animated by "The Quaints" open a season private ships already at a com- difficult to exaggerate. The United she splendid spirit of von Hinden bare. Their performances will merois disadvantage with foreign States has already found itself fae- burg.-Kinkelin, Foreign Oflics. be of a highly entertaining order, vessels seems to us an antenable ing erricus complications because, as the artistes are all p cialists proposition, and the first step of the complaints arising from the in their particular line.
towards driving what remains of search of Americanshipratres, The Tho performances will com our merchant marine from the question not only of contraben'l merce at 9.15 r.m. tharp, thus ocean The Government did not cargo but of American registry is can enabling residens from the Peak organize the parcel post because difficult en ugh to solvo when it to catch the pm, trem and be the express companies had failed involves a private citizen alone.! omfortably in their seats before to make their business pay, but What would happen if a ship the rise of the curtain. As a because it was felt that the purchased from a belligeren great deal of the interest centres express companies had been made since the outbreak of hostilities; in the Prologue, it will be in the to pay too well-to the cost of the and owned or controlled by the interests of patrons if they make public at large. Where public American Government, should be a point of being present in good enterprise enters private enter stopped and senched at sea by time for the opening.
price departe. Tublic ownership the warships of another hostile The performances will term of a merchant marine could never Power? The questions of cargo, inate at 11.30 p.m., thus giving be made a cure for the failure of of registry, are questions and persone living at the Peak or in private industry in the same problems so clearly defined and Kowloon ample time to catoh direction. At best it could only so difficult of solution as to alarm their tram or ferry.
be made an expensive subalitate, the most casual of understanding
There is very grave doubt as obie:verë,
"THE QUAINTS."
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to the reasonableness of the just- More intangible, but neverthe- ification offered for making the less to be considered, is the ques proposal, for there has been noticn whether the United States A Heroic S. Wales Borderer. little testimony to the effect that Government-a neutral Power- The patriotiem of a private of the high freight rate to neutral has the moralright to aid a belli- the 2nd Battalion South Wales and foreign shores was dependent gerent through the purchase of Borderere, named Sydenham, who as much upon war risks as upon ships which are useful to that was mortally wounded at the lack of commeros-osrriers, The Government only in so far as capture of Tsingtao, is spoken of price of wheat and the export re- their cash value, can be obtained. A nation which has shown such One of his lege was blown off by turns of the past month may be
·SILIMPOPON COAL. BUNKERS
be supplied at cheap rates at
SANDAKAN & SEBATTIK (British North Borneo). At these parts steamers calling for bunker coal exclusively are exempt from all shipping dues and charges.
A BUNE.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
The right is reserved of reject- ing all or any tenders and of accepting any portion of a tender.
(8d.) F. WESTON,
Naval Store Officer. Hongkong, 26th February, 1915.
TO LET
O LET-Conduit Read level,
Cook-house and boy's quarters. Verandahs overlooking Harbour, very cool-Apply 19, Robinson Road or F. A. Mackintosh, 16, Des Vaux Road.
INDRA” LINE LIMITED. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES FROM NEW YORK: The Steamship
"INDRAGHIRI” having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of cargo by her are hereby informed that all goods. are being landed at their risk Into
PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned has received the hazardous and/or extra hazar- instructions to sell by Public dous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Aaction on tulo
UN SATURDAY,
Company, Limited, whence, and/ the 27th February. 1915, comorfrom the wharves, delivery may mencing at 12 o'clock noon at be obtained.
N47 Wyndham Street.
Goods not cleared by the 5th A Quantity of Oflice Fur-prox. at 5 p.m. will be subject to niture..
rent
Also
One Milner's Safe, One Chubb's Safe. Terms -Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT. Auctioneer,
HONGKONG GYMKHANA
CLUB.
All broken, obafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on 5th "prox. at 9.30 a.th. Claims against the steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival otherwise they will not be recognized, wojennej.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case what- ever
Bills of Lading will be counter
a shell, and as he was being borne taken as positive evidence that consistent aversion to ship sub- along by the stretcher party hooar farmers and manufacturers are sidies will be slow to accept what sang a patriotic song. One of not suffering unduly from a look the President himself describes.
The Annual Mooting of Mom- the bearers remarked to the dying of ships. If they are not, it would as a temporary measure of re-
oldier that the white fug hat seem the height of unwisdom lief" and what is a perilous ad- bers will be held on Tuesday next been hoisted by the Germans to launch our Government on veiture into the international at 5.15 p.m. at the rooms of the "Let's get up and have a look," the revolutionery proposal. danger zone as a substitute for an Jockey Club, Ground Floor of signed by Baid the brave Borderer. Hie This proposition, linked with intelligentand constructive policy Annex of Hongkong Club, Mem- wish was put into efeat, and he the propotal to purchase the for the building up of a privats bers of the Jockey Club interested in Gymkhanas a10 invited fo expired instantly.
foreign ships now lying idle in merchant marine.
attend
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