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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
From EUROPE AND STRAITS. THE Company's Steamship
CHINA MAIL 8.S. CO., LTD,
From SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS & SHANGHAI
The Steamship
"CHINA"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
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Tolegrams "SEYBOURNE."
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS.
From ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO,
LONDON and STRAITS. The Steamship
"BENALDER' Consignees of Cargo are heraby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery
be may obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Go- downs, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th inst. will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 7th blay, or they will not be recognised.
All brokon, chafed and dam-
CONSIGNEES.
FRIDAY, APRIL 29. 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ADMIRAL LINE. The Steamship
"MONTAGUE"
having arrived from Portland, Ore, via ports, on 28th inst., consignces are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their 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- signee's risk.
Consignees of cargo must pro- duce an Import pormit aigned by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, before Bills of Lading, will be counter- signed.
All broken, chafed and damaged gargo is to be left in the Godowns where it will be examined at 10 a. on May 3rd by the Co's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas,
All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized. No claim will be recognized after the gards have left the Godowns, and cargo undelivered on and after May 4th 1921, 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., United States Shipping Board Emergency Flect Corporation
Managing Agents.
The Admiral Line. 5th Floor Hotel Mansions. Hongkong, 27th April, 1921.
afford to demonstrate their re- sentment have, I suspect, done so by leaving the town.
aged Goods are to be left in the WITH OUR RHINE ARMY.there had been meeting in this
Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th inst. at 10 a..
& CO. LTD.
Agents, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1981.
EMPTY CUTBOARDS. Up to the end of last week
hotel a conference of leading business men from all parts of the Rhineland. On the eve of the entry of the Allies they removed their debates to Essen, and many guests at the hotels have also left, to spare themselves. the sight of foreign uniforms.
From the other side of the No Fire Insurance has beoncourtyard on which I look down effected.
comes a girl's voice singing. It Bills of Lading will be counter-ig, about a "sweetheart" and a "kiss," and the singer is evidently signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
the buxom thaid whose figure I see from time to time passing the open window of a kitchen, writes
As to the two hundred and] Mr: H. W. Smith, the Daily News thirty odd thousand townspeople correspondent at Dusseldorf. who remain, they appear out- I don't know why she shout be wardly as generally prosperous so merry. If she liked to put her or at least comfortable. But it is hond ou of the window she could easy to be deceived.
"Don't see the French sentry patrolling judge by the shope," someone the front of the hotel where adviselé yesterday. "It is not quarters, and if her sweetheart is what is in the cupboards at General Gaucher has his head-what is in the shop-windows, but
a member of the Sicherheitspolizei home." he was probably among the six hundred bundled out of the town last evening into unoccupied Germany.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
"LIMA MARU,"
having arrived from the above ports Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong & lied to send in their Bills of From EUROPE and STRAITS. Kowloon Wharf & Godown Com-Lading duly ondorsed for counter-
Having arrived from the above mentioned ports, consignees of cargo by her are hereby noti
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
pany's Godowns at Kowloon, signature and take immediate THE Company's Steamship
whore each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and de- livery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Optional Goods will bo carried on unless instructions are given
Goods not cleared by Wednes.
to the contrary before Noon, To-day, May 5th 1921 will be subject
day.
Goods not cleared by the 3th May, 1921, will be subject to
to rent.
"ATSUTA MARU"
HIDDEN FEELINGS.
Is it that here on the Rhine hatred of the French is lags bitter than in the North? There is a French tradition here. The Cde Napoleon ruled in this part of Germany right down to the beginning of the century, and copies in French and Gernian, can be found next the family Bible in the houses of elderly people even to-day. But there is not the slightest trace of liking for the French, or the English for that matter."
A str nger has little chance of of getting at the facts about the cupboaris, but I should say a good many of them are bare. For on thing, food is still ration- ter is not to be had, milk is served ed. At this expensive hotel but- in 11 tiny jugs used for oream in London tea-shops, sugar ap-
pears in powder on a platter the size of a half-crown, and bread is
a good deal worse than our own Paris is to pass suddenly from war bread. To come here from the fat years to the lean.
delivery from alongside the steamor andjor the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown -Co's. hazardous and)or extra having arrived from the above batardons Godown where all the ports, Consignees of Cargo are cargo impeding discharge will be hereby informed that their Goods landed at consignee's risk.
are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each consignment will be sorted out mark by mark and de- All broken, chufed and damaged as the Goods are landed.
livery can be obtained as soon packages, are to be left in the Optional Goods will be carried Godowns where they will be ex-on unless instructions are given emined on Wednesday, May to the contrary before Noon, To-
WAGES AND PRICES. 4th, 1921 at 10 a.m.
day.
The skilled workmen bereabouts Damaged packages must be left
Goods not cleared by the 4th
earn on an average eight marks an in the Godowns for examination No claims will be admitted May,
hour, the tram men six or seven. 1921, will be subject
It is true that On the Bread is 1 mark 50 pfennige a by the Consignee's and the Co.'s after the goods have left the to rent.
Damaged packages must be Konigsallee and in the Park this pound and the ration is 374lb. a representatives at an appointed steamer and/or godown.
left in the Godowns for examin- Sunday morning burghers and week; butter is 35 marks a lb. (but hour on Tuesday & Friday. All;
their wives promenade
it cannot be got), margarine 11 or All claime must be presented ation by the Consignee's and tho claims must be presented within within four weeks of the ship's Co.'s representatives at an ep: sweethearts walk hand in hand 30 pfennige. Clothing and under- spectably together, and that 12, sugar (also rationed), 4 marks ten days of the steaner's arrival arrival, otherwise they will not be pointed hour on Tuesday and here, aftor which date they cannot recognised.
Friday. All claims must be pre- as in better times. It is true wear cost as many marks here as sented within ten days of the that the company of boys who they cost pennies in London-a 'be recognised. No claims will be
fiddles and shirt which can be had for 12s. 6d. No Fire Insurance whatsoever steamer's arrival here, after pass you with admitted after the goods have left, will be effected.
which date they cannot be ra-
mandolins and guitars playing in England costs 180 marks here.
the Godowns,
cognized. No claims will be ad- mitted after the goods have left
rent.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, Agents. Hongkong, 28th April, 1921.
C. T. SURRIDGE, Agent. Prince's Building, Ground Floor. Hongkong, 28th April, 1920.
the Godowns.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Agents. Hongkong, 27th April, 1921.
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a lively march seem to challenge It is difficult to establish the care. But youth will have its relationship between wages and ing still, and the latest report of cupation, which, if the Allion day, and as for the elders, they price but the editor of the work the school doctors show that 35 push their plans, must bring will do what they have been in men's paper tells me that there or 40 per cent. of the children in unemployment and misery. There the habit of doing, and especially is no question that the former the elementary schools were will still be some left to sing,.
if they can't afford to do any have kept pace with the latter. tuberculous: The town has no no doubt. It will not be these other. The very few who could There is a good deal of suffer-reason to rejoice in the oc-children, or their mothers.
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Alek Wanted To See if It Was True!--
THE VERY IDEA!! WHAT EVER POSSESSED YOU TO BUMP BABY
ON THE FLOOR, LIKE THAT?
W-WELL, YOU SAID YESTERDAY "THAT BABY WAS A BOUNCING BOY!
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