THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
W. S. BAILEY
THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE & CO., LTD.,
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES.
LONDON
" MENTOR"
**TEIRESIAS
** HELENUS "
22nd Feb.
let Mar.
8th Mar.
"STENTOR" 11th Mar. "NINGCHOW" 22nd Mar.
SERVICE
(Direct)
London, Amsterdam & Hamburg Amsterdam, London & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp
· London, Amsterdam & Hamburg SERVICE
LIVERPOOL
"ACHII.LES"
*' TITAN"
TELAMON"
(Direct or via Continental Ports)
KT. of the GARTER"
27th Feb. Genoa, M'lles, L'pool & Glasgow 5th Mar. Genoa, Havre, L'pool & Glasgow. 15th Mar. Havre & Liverpool
29th Mar. Geuna. Milles, L'pool & Glasgow SERVICE
PACIFIC
"TEUCER"
(via Kobe and Yokohama)
23rd Feb.
**TALTHYBIUS" 16th Mar,
**TYNDAREUS
4th Apr.
NEW
YORK
"EURYPYLUS "
Vitoria, Seattle, Tacoma and
Vancouver
SERVICE
(via Suez or Panamá)
2nd March
via Suez
HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE
MENTOR" "TEIRESIAS " "STENTOR" "IDOMENEUS "
*PYRRHUS"
"ANCHISES"
"' MENTOR "
"TEIRESIAS "
22nd Feb.
1st March 11th March 12th April 3rd May
21st June
5th July
19th July
for London
for London
for London
for Liverpool for Lordon.
for Liverpool for London
for London
For Froight and all Information Apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
CONSIGNEES.
AGENTS.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
From NEW YORK via JAPAN The Steamship
PORTS, DAIREN &
SHANGHAI.
THE Company's Steamship
"ALTAI MARU,"
"DUQUESNE"
having arrived from New York via ports,
On 13
inst., Consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at theoir risk into the Hazardous and or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hon Shan Godown Co., 16 & 17 Kennedy Town Praya, Hongkong, and stored at con- signou's risk.
having arrived from the above poris, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Consignees of cargo must pro- Kowloon Wharf and Godown duce an import permit signed by Company's Godowns at Kowloon, the Superintendent of Imports where delivery can be obtained and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading will be counter- as soon as the goods are landed.
signed.
Goods not cleared by the 22nd inst.. will be subject to rest..
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examin- stion by the Consignoes' repre- sentative and the Company e Surveyors, Messrs. Guddard and Douglas, at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and Saturday. All claims must be presented within Ten days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be re- cognized. No claim will he ad- mitted after the goods have left the Godowns,
No fire insurance, whatever will be effected,
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Y. YASUDA.
Manager.
ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOK UN KOWLOON.
HARBOUR REPAIRS.
Call Flag "L"
Sole Agents for "KELVIN MOTORS.” Motors from 17 B.H.P. to 50 B.H.P. now in stock also spare parts.
Works
Manager...
Secretary
Tel. K.21.
K.329.
11
I
K369.
K.28.
Harbour Engineor Tolograms SEYBOURNE."
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
TOYÒ KISEN KAISHA.
5.8. PERSIA MARU" From SAN FRANCISCO via HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS
& MANILA.
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY. 17. 1921,
SHIPPING NEWS.
A WORLD'S "TYING-UP
CONFERENCE.
The formation of a World's Tying-Up Conference has boon suggested in Japan, but is not likely to materialize,
SAILING RECORD.
A Trans-Pacific sailing record is claimed by the Robert Dollar barquentine Jah L. Stanford, in making the run from Chin- wangtao to Cape Flattery, B.C. coast, in forty days.
RENEWED GERMAN ACTIVETY. Commencing on March 5, the Kosmos and Roland lines of Germany are inauguarting a atoamship service from Hamburg to the west coast of South America, via Panama.
A LOOSE CRANK SHAFT. The China Navigation Co.'s Wonchow arrived in Shanghai) recently withher crankshaft Icose, į She had been towed 300 miles to Matsu by the C. N. Co.'s Foochaw, j but did the journey from Matsu : to Shanghai under her o va steam.
SHIPBUILDERS.
SHIP REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS.
OXY-ACETYLENE AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS.
MECHANICAL AND
ELECTRICAL
-DRY DOCK-
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
ENGINEERS.
LENGTH 787 FEET. LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FEET
DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
SILL (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 FT. 6 INS. -THREE SLIPWAYS-
CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UF TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.
ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF
LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS
TEL ADDRESS:~" TAIKCODOCK MCNCKONG.
TELEPHONE No. 212
CALL FLAG: "C" OVER "ANS, PENNANT."
THE N.Y.K, AND THE CIR. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha bas concluded an agreement with the The above named Steamer hav- Canadian Pacific Railway Com- ing arrived on Tuesday, the pany whereby its Souttle linera 15th Feb., 1921, consigncos of will call at Vancouver. The call cargo are hereby notified to pre will be inaugurated by the sont their Bills of Lading for Kashima Maru, which has left countersignature, and take im- for Seattle. mediate delivery from alongside stromer or the Company's Go- down, where all cargo impeding immediato discharge will be land-shipbuilding plant discontinued Big Changes in a Few Years.
ed at consigneo's risk,
Storage will be assossed on cargo remaining undelivered after Tuesday the 22nd Feb.,
1921.
WHAT A RIP VAN WINKLE FINDS.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS,
HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
induced back to the buildings trade, and the sooner the building regulations that hampered cheap construction in variety of earlier an end would be put to an materials were, suspended, the
Damago estimated at $4000 was caused by fire on the Ben- unsatisfactory state of affairs.known of the Clyde passenger more, one of the oldest, and best (Applausn.)
stoamere, which is in winter quar- satisfactory to find that agricul- On the other hand, it was
ters at Greenock. The fore saloon. was completely gutted, and the machinery suffored extensive damage.
HOG ISLAND SHIPYARD. A Philadelphia message of the 4th inst, stato-The Hog Island
shipbuilding activities to-day as
After a eevon years' terni as far as the present management is concerned, and the keys of the
Governor-General of Australia, yards were given to the United recently Sir R. C. Munro Fergu- Viscount Novar (who was until States Shipping Board, All broken, chafed and damaged
sau) made his first public apture, which was the Cinderella, packages will be landed into the OPIUM SMUGGLING INGENUITY.
A Method of smuggling opium when he addressed a gathering had now come into its own. Our Company's Godowns, where same which has lately come to light of the
pearance in Edinburgh recently among our national industries,
will be examined on Saturday
Ed nburgh Ross and
farmers wero amongst our most is that of scccreting the drug in Cromarty Association.
comfortable citizons, Numbers the 20th Feb., 1921, at 11 a.m,
hollowed pieces of wood, which No Claims will be recognised
No one, said Vicount Novar, of them had become occupying after the goods have left there thrown overbeard at specified could be absent for seven years owners, thereby adding greatly steamer or Godown, and none places and picked up by accom-without feeling something of a to the stability of society. will be entertained if presented plies on a lighter. Opium smugglip Van Winkle on his return. Referring to the decontrol of
three weeks after ing seems to be a second mother Especially, of courro, was that so, later than
the fishing industry, Viscount arrival of steamer,
of invention, to judge by some of when in the interval the quiet Novar said he was sure that, No Fire Insurance whatever the ingenious methods which course of national life had been backed up by private capital, the
come to light from time to time. will be effected.
broken in two by a great war, fishermen, would know how to BATAVIAN ENTERPRISE, and drastic changes had taken prosecute a calling which brought We have it on good authority, place in the social, economic, and so much wealth to the country which we are not at liberty to industrial conditions of the provided us in war time with disclose, that tho Planters' As-country.
such splendid auxilary seamen. sociation of Batavia, Jaya, is Ono only needed a few weeks taking steps to acquire no less to observe that political theories than fifty-one, steamships, and which were vague and shadowy that a number of Austrian ex- when he left home had become, Naval officers are to be obtained for the time at any rate, the for officering some of them, on a policy of the nation. guaranteed pay of not less than £30 per month, states Shipping and Engineering.
Y. TSUTSUMI,
Manager. Hongkong, 15th January, 1921.
WATER RETURN.
Level and Storeage of water in Reservoirs on Feb. 1, 1921. CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER
Tytam
Tylam rythm fever-
Byowash...
mediste...
a Tuk
Wong-cl chunk Puktitut
WORKS LEVEL.
1920.
0-3 Bel
creador
23.2 Below
1
God
Belove
Deer P 26-10 Below
brow 35-0 Below Gverflow 14- Below
1921
18- Belo
"ivetllaw
22-3 Below
verfow
- Holsw verttos 5-7 Below overdow 26-1 Belus averfox 15. Below oserHow
STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND
DECIMALS OF GALLONS,
All broken, chased and damaged! cargo is to be loft in the Godowns) where it will be examined at 10 a.m. on 18th inst, by the Co's Isla Pyewit Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
a termchale
Ivan Tak......... Wangue ch
1920
310 +7 1,40
150.45
1.0
1.0
34.1
1921 25778
114.30
GERMAN MERCHANT OFFICERS IN CHUNA.
There are indications that steps are being taken in some quarters to re-introduce German officers
When he left home they were nearly all Free Traders; many of them, he blushed to say, were anti-Suffragiste. (Laughter.) They
In Lowis, co-operation between 2 captain of industry and the croitors promised to make that island one of the great fishing stations of the world.
A. CONFIDENT SPIRIT NECESSARY,
In spite, therefore, of many difficulties and of the incalcul-
able injuries caused by the war, had never known the blessings of there was much that was pro- control, and the word decontrol mising and hopeful in the out- had not yet entered their diction-look, and it was their hounden aries.
duty to be optimistic, to have country.
in the ships of certain Chinese They were grumbling at rates faith in themselves and their owners coastal lines. The marine and taxos which they would now superintendent of a company scarcely notice (laughter)-and controlling about a dozen vessels they thought it a political. virtue Nis said to be of Tentonie to postpone desirable schemes of 1.193 15 nationality, and other German social reform if the financial influence is not altogether absent position of the couptry made in- from the company.
creased expenditure inexpedient. Theyould not be surprised, We hear that a new addition to be a little at sea and should some therefore, if an Antipodean should the fleet of the C.N. Co. will be times be gazing into a political
All claims must be presented with dirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they triat sa anions and decimals of Ratious cannot be recognized. No claim will be recognized after the goods have left the tiedowns, and cargo undelivered and after 19th
an
Feb. 1921, will be subject to rent?
32.4ł
Tula
1,198.01 1.608,2F Consumpsion of water in the City and Hin
dering the unth of Jan.
195. 1921. Consumption....... 112 07 222 91 M. gallopr squared impulį
277.800 281.400 consumption per
22.4 head per day Cupistadi supply in all distric
of both 320d 1921.
Jik
25 9
Gallo
No fire insurance whatever will KOWLOON WATERWORKS LEVEL. be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading, for countersignature immediately,
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.,
United States Shipping Board Emergency Flect Corporation Barber Steamship Lines, Inc.
Managing Agents.
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
5th Floor Hotel Mansions.
Hongong, 16th February, 1921. Hongkong, 13th February, 1921,
Kawinn
Laza.
1921.
8-5 Belove .overdow
}
2-10 Briew
overfic
Gravitation Berryuin...
STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OF GALLONS.
Kowloon
Gravitation Resorcole
1920.
263.0%
1921.
#23.56
Consumption of water in Enwloon is
ADDITION TO U.N. C'S FLEET.
seen in these waters soon in the
Another honour falls to the lot of "Annie S. Swan," the popular Scottish novelist, by the election of her husband, Dr. J. Burnett Smith, as Mayor of Hertford for the ensuing year. As Mayoress she may be trusted to play her part with dignity and grace, her skill as a public speaker being well known."
The rumour that Cammell Laird and Co., of Sheffeld and Birkenhead, are about to acquire William Beardmore and Co. (Ltd.), Dalmuir, is denied at Sheffield. Cammell Laird know nothing of the matter. The story is regarded as unlikely in view of the Beardmore alliance with Vickers, and the fact that Sir William Boardmare, chairman of
Vickers (Ltd). the Company, is a director of
An extraordinary belief is said to be entertained by many of the poorer and more ignorant people Nothing was so paralysing as of London, namely, that the body pessimiem, while nothing gave of the "unknown warrior" is more energy and resilience than really that of Lord Kitchener, a confident spirit, (Applase.)
whose remains have been recover- The wonderful progress that ed from the Germans, who killed they had made under the compel-him. Would the country, they ling necessity of war in science, ask, go to this expense and make production, was a compensating soldier? in organisation in methods of all this fuss for 3. common advantage which, if used to the them
It is nothing to they charge full, might repair their present the King, the Government, and ills ond in the end give them back the Army with a gigantic, oven their properity,
though pious, fraud.-Newcastle Chronicle.
shape of the steamer Kalgan sky from which the Pole star had
vanished. states Shipping and Engineering darias (Shanghai), She bus separato
"NOT A SINGLE HOUSE." In some directions, again, one
They would need it all for saloon and staterooms for Euro- pean and Chinese first-class was forced to lament the absence without underrating the resources and strength of the great over- passenger, and also accommoda-of all change.
seas Dominions for all practical tion for Chinese steerage pas Not a single house seemed to sengers. The cargo arrangements have been built since he left-purposed-so far as this genera- include eight steam winches and (laughter)-and none were build- tion and perhaps the next were derricks as well as
a special ing. Yet increased housing was concerned--it was on the British derrick for dealing with litte up one of the most crying needs of Isles that almost the whole burden to thirty tons. Her principal the monient, and the present of the defence of the Empire dimensions are: Length between conditions would do more injury would rest. perpendiculars; 310 feet; breadth to the national health than 44 feet; depth 23 feet. She is officials of the Health Ministry arranged to burn oil and coal would ever be able to repair. alternately, and water-tight doors are fitted for the transfer of cargo, as well as through the usual deck hutches.
labe and deoltoaie of gallone during the mouth
of Jan.
1020 Consumption 47.20 Batmated popul-104,750
stion 100 100 499, Consumption per
1021.
10 550
12.4
41.25 M. gallon
gallons The Government Analyst's reports show that the water ta excellent quality,
trend per day...)
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
YEAH-T KNOW
ALL "TU' ¿ANSWERSTM TTHOSE QUESTIONS
-TUATS GONNA
BE OUR TEST
AFTER CHRIS MUS,
POP
WELL, HERE'S
14.2
W. CHATHAM. Water Authority.
The causes for this stagnation were complex, but he could not help thinking the sooner private capitalfand enterprise) could be
So That's Where It Comes From 2
A RATHER HARD
WHAT IS IT
POP?
WHAT USEFUL ARTICLE DO WE GET FROM THE
WHALE?
ONE-I DOUBT
IF YOU CAN
ANSWER IT,
AW-THATS EASY --- WHALE BONE!
YOU'RE RIGHT- WHAT DO WE GET
FROM THE
SEAL?
PRINCE GEORGE
MIDSHIPMAN,
1921, Prince George has passed With seniority of January 15, out of H.M.S. Temeraire as midshipman.
&
BY BLOSSER.
SEALING
WAX!
that
who has been wading through A correspondent of the Times,
the school books for young re- Across volutionaries has come
this song, which is in use in a Glasgow "proletarian seminary": "We, the rebel children, sing, Perish every court and king; We've a world to save and win In the Revolution.
Chorus:
We shall sing, all rebele sing, Rebels sing, rebels sing;
We shall sing, all rebels sing,
Hail the Revolution."
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