CONSIGNEES.
PACIFIC MAIL SS. CO., LTD.
NOTICE.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA, LTD.
8. S. "DOYLESTOWN."
From SHANGHAI-
The above mentioned vessel having arrived from the above mentioned Ports. consignees of cargo are hereby informed that their cargo will be larded at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra harzardous godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co. Ltd., and stored at consignees' risk.
Consignees of cargo are hereby notified that they must produce an Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before bills of lading can be counter- signed.
{MITSUBISHI TRADINGSO COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS AND
EXPORTS.
SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASNIMA OCHI MUTABE KISHIDAKKI YOSHIKOTAKI NOJO, NAMAZUTA, SATO. KANADA. SHIKNEW. KAMIYAMADA BIA
EM OYUBARI COAL MINES. Agents for SAKITO COAL.
HEAD OFFICE, TOKYO. BRANCHES AND REPRESENTA- KARATSU. TIVES: NAGASAKI,
WAKAMATSU, MOJI, KURE, KOBE,
OSAKA TSURUGA, NAGOYA,
YOKOHAMA, TOKYO, HAKODATE,
MURORAN, OTARU. VLADIVOS- TOCK, PEKING, TIENTSIN, DAIKEN. TSINANFO, HANKOW, SHANGHAL. All broken, chafed and damag TAPEH, HONGKONG, CANTON, ed goods are to be left in the Go-AIPHONG, MASILA, SINGAPORE, downs, where they will be ex CALCUTTA, LONDON & NEW YORK. amined on December 22nd at
10 a.m.
All claims must be presented within a week of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.
No clim will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns and all goods remaining undelivered after December 23rd, will be subject to rent.
No fire insurance whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO. As Operators, U.S. Shipping Board.
Hongkong, 16th December, 1919.
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THE ADMIRAL LINE.
HE Steamship
"ELDRIDGE"
Seal.ie
Cable Address *-**- Hongkong "IWASAKI "
Canton, Haiphong
"IWASAKISAL,”
Codes:-A, A.B.C. 5TH ED., Western Union and Bentley's. AGENCY FOR THE OSAKA MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE Co., LTD., OSAKA.
For Particulars Apply to:-
S. SAYEKI, Manager.
No. 11. Padder Street, Hongkong
EXCHANGE.
SELLING.
T/T
53
Demand
5/24
30 d/s
5/256
60 dis
5/216
4 m/s.
5/256
F/T Shanghai.
Nom.
TIT Singapore..
22016
T/T Japan
1971
T/T India.
220
Demand, India
220
T/T San Francisco)
& New York.f
96)
250 Nom. 11 66
BUYING.
Consignees of cargo must pro- duce an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter-30 d/s. San Francis-1 signed.
co & New Yorkj 4 m/s. Marks
6 m/s. L/C
30 ds. Sydney and) Melbourne
5'4 5/4/4 5/456 5/494
9814 Nom.
4 m/s. Francs
12.05
12.18
having arrived from vis ports, on Dec. 16th, 1919 consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and/or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, and stored at con- s'gnces' risk.
It
All broken. chefed and dam- aged cargo is to be left in the Godowns where will be examined at 10a.m. on Thursday 18th, inst. by the Company's Sur veyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival bere, after which they cannot be recognized. No claims will be recognized after the goods have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after Dec. 23rd, 1919 will by subject to rent. No fire insurance whatever will he effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature homediately.
TT Java T/T Marks
TT Francs Demand, Paris
4 m/s. L/C 4 m/s. D/P
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1919.
EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
M. CLEMENCEAU IN LONDON.
Paris, Dec. 10.
M. Clemenceau has decided to visit London and will be three days abeant from Paris. No official state- ment has been issued regarding the object of the visit. Paris circles point to the opening of negotiations for a new series of alliances within the scope of the League of Nations by which Great Britain, France, and pos sibly Italy, will enter into mutual defensive treaties. Clemenceau is also expected to raise the wide issues Evolved by the present financial conditions in France as the rate of exchange on London cannot continue. The Premier will try to obtain a final solution of the differ
The policy towards on economic questions. Russia will be discussed on the line of a Franco--Ger- many and Austria. A new alliance will be discussed by which Great Britain promises aid to France in the event of an unprovoked attack by Germany.
ences
Before leaving for the United States, Frack Polk, the American delegate, expressed optimism, saying there was no doubt. Germany was going to accede to the Allies just demands. Rumania was ready to affix her signa❤ ture to the Treaty and the St. Germain treaty, with Thus a laborious structure of Hungary was ready. world peace is about to be achieved. Mr. Polk concluded by reiterating the love and admiration for France which are endorsed throughout the United States--Havas.
PARIS-LONDON AREOPLANE CRASH.
Paris, Dec. 13.
The passenger who was killed in the aeroplane crash at Caterham was an American named Rand, who was President of the Marine Trust Company, Buffalo. One of his last acts was to offer half a million Francs for a monument to commemorate the burial of a Battalion of Frenchmer who overwhelmed a trench at Verdun. M. Clemenceau accepted the offer.
GERMANY PREPARING TO SIGN.
Paris, Dec. 11.
Paris circles state that Germany is manifestly pre paring to sign the Protocol, thus permitting the Peace Treaty to take effect.-Haras
WORLD'S GREATEST MOTORSHIP.
London, Dec. 12.
The world's greatest motorship, the "Africa." 14,000 tons, belonging to the East Asiatic Company has been launched at Copenhagen. She has two Diesel motors, together indicating 4,500 horsepower.
S.S. CASTOR FEARED LOST.
Singapore, Dec. 15.
The Scwners fear that the steamer "Castor" which has not been heard of since leaving Singapore on Nov. 16th, bound for Haiphong has been lost in a Typhoon.
ALLEGED CONTEMPT, appearing on behalf of the Crown,
OF COURT.
LOCAL NEWSPAPER IN TROUBLE.
On Saturday morning Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, the editor of the China Mail, will appear at the Supreme Court on a writ for alleged contempt of Court.
for an order to be issued directing Mr. Burnett, the Editor of the Ching Mail, to appear before that Court to answer for alleged con- tempt of Court, committed by the publication in the China Mail newspaper of certain paragraphs commenting on a Police Court case which, the Crown would say, constituted a contempt of Court and which were calculated to pre- judice the trial of the case. There Before Sir William Rees Davies, were two affidavits on the file.
to state K.C., at the Supreme Court
Mr. Kemp went on this morning, an application was that one of the affidavits was by made by the Hon. Attorney a Chinese clerk in the Crown General (Mr. J. H. Kemp that Solicitor's office which merely the editor of the chine Mau be proved that os December 13 he ordered to attend at the Court for purchase a copy of the China The official Mail, dated December 11, at the alleged contempt. document stated:"In the mat- | China Mail's office in Wyndham ter of Rex v. Ma Yue-hing, in the Street. The other affidavit, by Police Court on 10th December, the Crown Solictor, stated that before Mr. J. R. Wood, in which the paragraphs complained of beading of prisoner was committed for trial were under the at the Criminal Sessions of this "Adversaria" page 4 and Court to be held in January on that they purported to relate charge of uttering certain forged to a case in which a certain promissory notes with intent to prisoner was committed for trial defraud; and in the matter of an by the Police Magistrate. Such application by the Attorney-Gen-paragraphs commented on the eral on behalf of the Crown that conduct of the Police Magistrate an order be issued on Gearge in committing the said defendant William Cade Burnett, of 5. for trial and were calonlated to Wyndham Street, ordering him prejudice the trial at the Criminal to appear before this Court to Sessions. The said newspaper was answer for contempt of Court in printed and published by Mr. G. respect of articles that appeared W. C. Burnett, as stated in a note in the China Mail on 11th De-on page 10 of the paper.
calculeted 10 cember, 1919.
Mr. Kemp went on to point DISCOUNT FER $100:
that prejudice the trial of the above out
they were asking for an order on par. named prisoner. "
the ground F'kong 50 cts pieces.
$1.50 pm.
stated Kemp
that that the contempt consisted of Mr. $52 pm. this Was an ex-parte. ap something calculated to prejudice
and that 4 pm. plication,
he way the trial. He asked his Lordship
6 m/s. Francs Demand, Germany. Demend. New York 966 T/T Bombay
220 Demand, Bombay... T/T Calcutta
220 Demand. Calcutta... Demand, Manila 213 Demand, Singapore. 22016 On Haiphong
Nom. On Saigon On Bangkok Sovereign... Gold leaf per Tael... 31.20
79%8 Bar Silver, per oz
forward
7734
Μονι Nom. 3.80 Nom.
SUBSIDIARY COIN 5...
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for an order directing Mr. Burnett to appear and suggested that the order be made returnable on Saturday morning next, if con- venient.
His Lordship:-I understand that the Magistrate has committ- ed this case and that the comment in the newspaper appeared sub- sequent to the committal 2-Yes, my Lord.
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His Lordship asked to see the paragraph complained of, and the Attorney General further stated: that the paragraphe discussed prejudice the trial. It was not you can take a rule nisi. I will the case and argued about the comment on a case finished and maze the rule returnable on decision of the Magistrate and done with; it was comment on a Saturday morning at 10.30, and I ahall ask Mr. Justice Gompertz that the evidence did not justify pending case.
His Lordship, having read the to sit with me." The process of a conviction. «
Court should be served ·
That was the suggestion, and it paragraphs, said-Without ex-the was that that was calculated to pressing any opinion at this stage, forthwith.
BY BLOSSER
CHON ALEX. GOIN' TO
SCHOOL?
YEAH BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT TSXY WHEN TEACHER ASKS WHERE
I WUZ ALL DAY
YESTERDAY
-T'LL TELL YA-TUL- WEITE YOU AN EXCUSE-= SHUCKS!-SHE WON'T KNOW BUT WHAT YER
MA WROTE IT.
WILL YA HONEST ?? SEE I NEVER THOUGHT OF
THAT!
YKNOW YOU BOTTA USE BIG WORDS- JUST
LIKE YER MAN VOZ
WIRITU
17-mor
THERE!
LE'S SEE
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LES SEE
IT!
Dear Teacher
please
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