PACIFIC MAIL
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
MANAGING AGENTS
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD.
TRANS-PACific servICE
FAST NEW AMERICAN STEAMERS TO
SAN FRANCISCO
VIA
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Aug. 29th
SAILING & TARZ3 SUB COT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTION,
LOW FARES TO EUROPE
LOCAL EQUIVALENT OF
£120
First Class Throughout
£110
One Class Steamer on Atlantic.
WITH STOPOVER PRIVILEGES AT PORIS OF CALL &
VISIT
POINTS IN UNITED STATES.
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6th Aug. 20th
CALCUTTA
FREIGHT ONLY
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.
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Aug. 6th, at 5 p.in. "LAKE FAULK" ...
For full information regarding rates, space etc.
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PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP GOY.
1st. FLOOR QUEEN'S BUILDING HONGKONG, Canton Agents. Cable Address. Tel. Cuatral 141.
Solano
33. Holyoak, Massey & Co., Ltd.
EMBROIDERED & DRAWN WORK
YOU WILL FIND OUR STOEK
OHEAPEST AND BEST.
Swatox Drawn Work, Embroideries'. Silke, 'Laver, Ivory Beads & Carvings
and other works of art,"
FJÜK WENG & CO,
Astor House Hotel Bailding
Branch HOK EONG & CO., N. & Phayra Street, Bangoon,
PURE
Drugs
PRESCRIPTIONS
when the doctor prescribes
he expects Lie draggiato All the prescription with pure drugs.- The quality of our Drugs,‡ Medicines and Tollet Goods in
THE HONGKONG
NOTICE.
THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL CO., LTD.
SILIMPOPON COAL
THE undersigned are prepared to quote prices for best quality freshly mined Silimpopon Coal, trimmed into Bunkers af Sebattik or Sandakan (British North Borneo), and to contract for regular Supplies of cargo lots at favoursşle raics."
Steamers calling at Sebattik or. Sandakan exclusively 101 Bunkers are exempt from pay. ment of ordinary Port Charges The minimum draft of water sioncside the Company's Whari * Sobattik is 26 feet at low water Spring fidos. Charts of Covfe Bay (Sobaitik Harbour) and any required information concerning. the Port may be bad applicat on to
TELEGRAPH;
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1923.
SHIPPINGCONTROL
Hongkong Government
Vindicated.
At the conclusion of the ordinary business at the Legisia tive Council yesterday, reference was made to the report laid on the table with regard to the Shipping Control Scheme,
know it in its inmost circles are conscious that it rightly deserved. (Applause);
The Colonial Secretary's
Services. W
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
COPENHAGEN.
Regular Freight shd. Passenger Service for Bangk
Hongkong, and return,
S. S. "BANKA in port
(1.684 tons).
Expected on or about M.S. "BINTANG" lat. August
(2719 tons)
Will love for Bangkok,
28th. July.
Gih. August.
Subject to change without notice.
For further particulars please apply to:
HE. the Governor: On behalf of the Government I desire to express my appreciation of what Mr. Holyoak has said. Aspersions have been passed on this Govern- ment, and more especially on the Colonial Secretary personally, which it was impossible to meet at the The Hon. Mr. P. H. Holyoak time, owing to the fact that pro- Your Excellency, I crave pormis-ceedings were pending before the sion to make a few remarks on Court. We have taken the earliest paper No. 5, entitled "Shipping opportunity? when the Court mat- Control in Hongkong, 1917-1923.er was cat of the way, of publish- As this honourable Council ising this statement, which I am! aware, un aspersion of a very glad to think, the honourable ment- grave, nature has been made ber regards as incontrovertible, as against the good faith of this do myself. There is one serians,
und Government,
particularly omission in this Report, which is against the Colonial Secretary's due to the fact that it is signed by- treatment of litigants referred to the Colanlal Secretary himself. In therein. Being in Shanghai, as the course of it, the Colonial Secre- I was, shortly after these aspertary, speaking for the Government. sions were made, I felt strongly-expresses the Government's appre and I was not alone in that, for leiation and thanks to various 'mem- there were other members of the bers of the community who render- Hongkong community presented good service in connection with With me at that time who felt the Shipping Control. The docu- The Cowie Harbour Coal Co., Ld.with me that the Government ment having been prepared by the
ought to make reference to those Colonial Secretary himself, it was Further Sallings :~~~ statements publicly in Council impossible for him to conclude, as
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Agents.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
COPENHAGEN
The M. S.. "BOLIVIA
will be loading for Rutterdam, · Amsterdam, Hamburg, oprional, London, knoenhagen and other Scandinavian ports, about 8.h. August, 1923,
Expected on or Will leave homawardbount
about.
od or about.
25th September. 15ti. October 15th November.
Subject to change without notice.
For further particulars picaso apply to
18th. August And had I not been assured, short- would have concluded, if I had M.S. "JAVA". ly after may return, that it was the written the docuraent, with an M.S. "APRIKA " 10th. September intention of the Government to
expression of the very highest ap-M.S. CHILE"...... 10th, October make a statement, I should have greciation of the work Mr. Fletcher asked a question on the subject put into this business himself.
I to elicit ap auswar to satisfy this was not here myself at that time, Council and the general public. but I have spent many hours in The aspersions wore so serious looking through the files of papers that they needed refutation or on this question, to see if there confirmation as the case might was any justification for the re- be: 1 congratulate the Govern-marks nude in Shanghai, and in ment on the extremely able state-the course of my perusal of these! ment, which they have made on volumindus documents, I have been the whole of Shipping Control, struck by the ability, industry, zeni and I congratulate, more particu-and desire to do justice to every- larly
GRAECO-EGYPTIAN the Colonial Secretary on the body which have actuated the
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CONSIGNEES.
THE, BEN LINE STEAMERS LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO, LONDON & STRAITS.
The Steamehip.
"BENLAWERS,
Colonial Secretary throughout. afforded him by the statements of facts recorded in this documentam glad to take the opportunity of making these remarks because, for which are incontrovertible,,
the reasons I have stated, it has been impossible to acknowledge those services in the public docu- Personally I know-for I happen-ment. (Applause).
Complete Vindication."
ed to be Chairman of the Chamber
of Commerce at a time when a
great deal of this negotiation was FOREIGN INTERESTS IN going on--how deeply the Colonial Secretary interested himself in giv-
CHINA.
ing scrupulous bearing and justice Statement by New Foreign-
I
Minister.
to those who were appealing. was the more astonished, there-i fore, to read the aspersions cast Peking, July 26-Dr. Welling- on his character which has been ton Koo, addressing foreign" cor- completely und umply vindicated. respondents at the Foreign Office I think a good deal of the confusion to-day, expressed regret on behalf of thought has arisen In the minds of China for the recent cases in
CONSIGNEES of cargo are of the Shanghai public at least which the lives and property of hereby informed that apartly from ignorance of fact-pro- foreigners had been endangered, goods are being landed at their bably from ignorance of fact-in but, he said, these should not be riek into the hazardous and/or not realising that this Government taken as symptoms of a change in exta hazardous godowns of th throughout the Shipping. Control the general attitude of China to- Hongkon and Kowloon Wharf & was running a very serious insurwards the friendly Powers or to- Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/o!ance risk, which the Imperial Gov-wards their nationals residing in from the wharves delivery mayernment had itsolf refused to China. They were the work of be obtained.
shoulder-a risk, even on the lawless elements. The Govern- No claims will be admitter assessment here by experts ofment was taking steps to render after the Goods have left th£979,000. In the early days there more effective protection to for- Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing undelivered after the 27th was considerable risk of one oreign life and property-Reuter.
more ships being lost. That the inst will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under signed on or before the 3rd prox. or they will not be cognized.
on
profits of the shipping control were
not called upon seriously through IS YOUR BABY HEALTHY?
re
one or more or several of the ships being lost was the fortune of war, but it was a liability which the
Bills of Lading will be counter signed by.
Here Is a Test. Happiness is a sign of bealth in All broken chafed and damaged Government had to count on and pre- babies: if they are fretful and rest- Goods are to be loft in the pare for. It is one of the axioms less it is a sure indication that Godowne, where they will be of trade that having put aside aeomething is wrong." examined
the 27th. inst reserve fund for a more
or less
Usually the cause of a baby's) dit 10 a.m.
definite object, when that risk sleeplessness, crying, irritability, No Fire Insurance has been
runs off (in insurance parlance) is stomach or bowel troubles, or Baby's Own effected.
what profit results, it is a perfectly teething pains. natural thing for every commercial Tablets quickly restore restful a Government, to sleep and the joyfulness of health company, or claim as a profit on its net results. to babies by dispelling stomach On behalf of the Unofficial Mem-troubles, feverishness, consipa bers, I congratulate the Governmention, calic, or diarrhoea. They make teething easy, break up again upon the very clear state-colde and expel worms. ment which has been made and as Baby's Own Tablets, the Can- a result of which I ne the Press adian children's remedy, are in the North of Chi.... will concur obtainable from druzgiste, or post in doing justice to the fair ad-free at 50 cents the vial from Dr. ministration during the War of the Williams' Medicine Co., 60 Kiang- Shipping Control which those whose Road, Shanghai,
Lot surpassed. Have the doctor'sGIBB, LIVINGSTON & Co., LD
Agents, prescription filled here and the result will ba asiipfactory Hongkong, July, 20th. 1923.
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PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD.
TIME-TABLE
(From 1st June, 1923.)
Week Days. 7.00 sint. 7.18 a... 7.30 to 8.00
8.00
to 8.20
'8,50 8.37
11
9
"very 15 mio
every 15 min 10 min
12.00 noon 100 p.m.
1.00 pr. 230
Stopping.
Non-stop. Stopping.
8.47 Non-stop.
."
8.54 m Stopping,
9.04 Non-stop
**
911. Stopping.
-9.30 am to 11.00, every 10 mit 11.30
Nou-stop. Stopping.
Stopping.
15 49
Sundays. 7.00.a.tr. 7.10 a.m. 7.30 To 939 9.0 IL18
11,00
10 min
-
17
1200 boon. 10 min
10 nia
ཀ
15 min
2.30
FD-430
10 min
*
4.0
5.3u
F
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17
15,min
5.0
6.30
10 min
14
Stopping.
#
"
Non-stop.
9.20
.. Stopping.
6.47
P
Stopplok
6.57
37
11.30 pm. 15 min
7.04
11
Stopping.
7.13
37
Non-stop.
19
12.40 Non-stop.
7.20
"
12 47
Stopping.
7.30
..Non-stop.
12,57
Non-stop.
7.37
Stopping.
1.04
Stopping.
7.47
Non-stop.
1.13
14
Non-stop.
7.54
Stopping.
1.20
+
Stopping,
+
8.03 Non-stop.
1.30 p.m. to 4.00,
every 10 min.
8,10
...Stopping.
4.00
4.30
•
4.30
6.30
要
"3
Stopping.
0.40
,, Non-stop.
6.47
Stopping.
6.57
Non-stop.
8.50
p.m
9.00 p.ra.
7.04
.. Stopping.
7.13
tt
Non-stop.
9.30 11.15
159 11.45
41
1
7.20
Stopping.
7.30
Non-stop.
7,37
Stopping. T
7.47
Non-stop.
7.54
Stopping..
8.03
Non-stop.
8.10
17
Stopping.
15 min 19'min
Saturday Extra Qari: 12.00 Midnight, Night Cars:
Weekdays and Sundays.
9.20 p.m
to 11.00 pm every 30 min 15 min Stopping. Special Cars.
BY ARRANGEMENT AT THE COMPANY'S OFFICE,
Alexandra Buildinga. Hongkong, 1st June, 1923.
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