THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES
LONDON SERVICE
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Marseilles, London, R'dam &H'bheg Marsottios, London. 'dium & Glasgow, Marseilles, London, R'dan &H'burg" Marseilles, London, R'dam & Glasgow
"HKLENUS". 23rd Mar "BARPEDON" 7th April "RHEXENOR 20th April. "PATROCLOS" 8th May. LIVERPOOL SERVICE ·
via ORAN "TELEMACHUS" 19th March, "IXION'
1st April. "TEUCER" 20th April. "MENELAUS**
1st May.
| PACIFIC SERVICE vis KOBE & YOKOHAMA "TALTHYBIUS" 6th April. "PHILOCTETES" 21st April,
20th March.
Genoa, Havro, Liverpool & &'gow. Genoa, M'ls, Havre, 'pool & G'gow Gatos, Mios, Havre, L'pool & G'gow Genoa, Mles, Havre, L'pool & G'gow
Victoria, Vancouver & Seattle. Victoria, Vancouver & Scattia.
Now York. Boston & Baltimore Boston, New York & Ballimore
| NEW YORK SERVICE
"JABON" "OALCHAS"""" 9th April. PASSENGER SERVICE. *BARPEDON 7th April. "PATROCLUS" 5th May,
ANTENOR'
2nd Juno. "ECTOR" 14th July,
SARPEDON** 8th Sept.
Singapore, Marseilles & London Singapore, Marseilles & Lehdon. Singapore, Marseilles & London. Singaporo, Marseilles & London. Singapore, Marcelles & London.
Also cargo steamers with limited assenger accommodation a
specially reduced fares.
For freight and passage rates and information apply to -
Butterfield & Swire.
Agents.
AMERICAN ORIENTAL
MAIL LINE --
Speed and Comfort.
SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE
United States!
SEATTLE & VICTORIA yi ANG AL-KOBE-YOKOHAMA
.....March 29th, 5.00 p.m. S.S. "PRESIDENT MADISON".. S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"..April 10th, 5.00 p.m. S.S. "PRESIDENT MCKINLEY" April 22nd, 5.00 p.m.
EUROPE L120-LII2-L[10.
on American or Canadian First Class on the Pacific. First Cla Rallway. First Class and Monoclass on the Atlantic. Choice of Trans Continental Railways, Any, Line on the Atlantic. Through accommoda tion and Booking Arranged.
FOR MANILA
March 21st, 5.00 p.m. S.S. "PRESIDENT MADISON"..
....April 2nd, 5.00 p.m. SS. PRESIDENT JACKSON" S.S. "PRESIDENT McKINLEY" April 14th, 5.00 p.m.
Through Bills of Lading to all United States and Canadian Overland points, als via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports,
Copies of this paper on file in our Offices SEATTLE, OBICAGO. NEW YORK.
For passage and Freight Booking apply to
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LIKER
Managing Oserators for United State Shipping Botci Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795. No. 4, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong and Shangbai Bank Building, Ground Floor,
INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION Co., Ltd.
BAILINGS BUBJECT TO ALTERATION...
Destination.
BANGKOK.................
HONGAY..
Steamer.
Bitungs. Hangsang Tues, 23rd Mar at 3 p.m.
Fri. 19th Mar. at 9 a.m.. ...... Hopsang
noon.
THE HONGKON
CANADIAN
PH
FRIDAY
FARCH
1926.
PACIFIC
EMPRESS EXPRESS
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC 17 Days from Hongkong to Vancouver LARGEST, FASTEST & MOST LUXURIOUS
STEAMSHIPS.
Special FARES to EUROPE
£120 £112 283 280
(Payable in Local Currency.)
(BOOKINGS NOW, OPEN FOR 1920.) /
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER
via SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS,
STEAMERS
Hongkong Shanghel
Losto
Yukobames Ma'vo LAKTA Arrive
TRAVELIN COMFORT
Aboard DOLLAR "PRESIDENT" LINERS
CONSIGNEE NOTICE
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
S.B. PAUL LEOAT": Consignees of Cargo Marseilles,
from
In connection with abova Steamer are boreby informed that their goods with the excep don of Opium, Tressure and Valuables are being landed and stured at their flaks into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kaw. loon Wharf, and Godown Co. Ed. Kowloon whence delivery may...
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK be obtained immediately after
VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-PORT SAID. -ALEXANDRIA NAPLES GENOA MARSEILLES Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK Fortnightly Sailings
Mar. 20-8.00 a.m. Apr. 18-8.00 R、m. Apr. 27-8.00 a.m.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
joulira
EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA EMPRESS OF ASIA
Mar, 19 Mar. 22
Mar. 25
Mar.27 Apr. 51
Apr. 2 Apr. 5
Agr. 8
Apr. 10 Apr. 19
Apr.16 Agr. 19
Apr.22
Apr 24. May $
Pres. Harrison... Pres. Van Buren Pras. Hayes.
Apr. 30 May
May 6
May 8 May 17
May 14 May 17
May 20
May 22 May 31 |
May 28 May 31
Jun. 3
Jun. 5
Jos, 14]
Jun. 11 : Jun. 14
Jun, 16
Jun, 19 Jun. 30
Jan. 25 Jan. 27
Jun 30 July # July 12:
Pres. Lincoln
Pres. Cleveland
Pres. Pierce
B/Asia and EfBussin call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghaij.
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HONGKONG-MANILA-HONGKONG-SERVICE
Leave Hoogkang Mar 26
Arriva
Manila
Mar. 28.
Passenger Department: Freight and Expense i
E/RUSSIA
Tel. 0.752 Tel. 0. 42
LORTE Bantla Mar. 28
#
Arrive Hongkong
Mar. 30
Cables: "GACANPAC." Cables NAUTILUS.”
THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.
COPENHAGEN....
"
The M. S. DANMARK.
will be loading for Valencia, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and "other Scandanavian ports on or about
29th. March 1926.
Expected on or Will leave homeward bound
Further Sailings -
about.
M.S. "Asia"
15th March
M.S. "Java"
20th Apri
M.S. "Afrika".....
7th May
M.S. "Malaya".
7th June
2nd July
M.S. "Peru"
оп
or about.
25th April
Subject to change without notice.
For further particulara please apply to:-
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
CRAZE TO BE CLERKS.
·EDUCATION SYSTEM
.. BLAMED.
Agente. "
It was decided to add to the resolution the advice that local Chambers of Commerce should keep in close touch with education authorities.
Mr. Arthur Neal, formerly Minister of Transport, moved a resolution; which was carried, The view that the British declaring that trade union and system of elementary education employers should get together to does not meet the need of local secure greater co-operation, am-1 industries and is instead creating|bition, and production and so a craze to become clorks was ex- avoid the economic and inevitable pressed by Lord Southwark at consequences of limiting produc the general mosting of the As- tion. He declared: sociation of British Chambers of Commerco. at Bath recently..
Employers should Have courage to re-equip their works with the Lord Southwark, who is chair- latest possible methods. There man of the Commercial Educa. should be no limitation of the tion Committee of the London earning power of the man, but, as Chamber of Commerce, moved a in the US, the working man's resolution urging a reconsidera-ambition should have full play. tion by the Government of the High wages do not connote bigh present curriculum in elementary costs but high spending power. education with a view to ascer-
There can be nothing more. taining whether it tends to in-fallacious than the idea that orease unduly the supply of wages can be based on the cost of clerks; whether it is overorowd-living. They can only be based ed with subjects; whether it tends finally on producation." to the imparting of knowledge rather than to the true education, of character and intellect whether the education is suffi cently varied to meet the needs of local trades and industries; and whether the nation receives insist on the economies fore- an adequate return for the ex-shadowed on the grouping of the penditure on elementary educa. railways.
tion.
He said. There is an unfortu- nate tendency to aim on every occasion at a post of a clerical
A resolution was carried urging that, in the interests of trade, the continued high costs of railway transport should be reduced and calling on the Government to
Madrid, Feb. 9 Prince Alfonso, Crown Prince of Spain; has bad
nature, either in a Government his first peep at ultra Spanish Office, or a municipal office, or society. work of that kind.
"
The nineteen-year-old Prince attended a grand bell given in his honor last night by
I do not believe that the secur the Marquis of Viana, Master of ing of a fixed position at a fixed the Royal Household, to which salary in any service tends to
breed initiative in any man. The Spain's nobility and the elite of world reserves its greatest prizes Spain were bidden. King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, and tho for those who have initiative.
of the This craze to become a olork grandees, members has resulted in the market being diplomatic corps and military flooded with clerks and unem, and naval officers attired in their
HAIPHONG via Hothow Mingang Tuss. 30th Mar. at 10a.m.ployed who have a smattering of uniforms made the ball a scene of TSINGTAU via ShalLeesang Wed. 24th Mar. at
Fri. 96th Mar. at 3 p.m.. Kumsang STRAITS & Calcutta.. TIENTSIN........ Cheongshing Tues. 30th Mar. at 10a.m. BANGKOK......... Kwaisang Wod. 31st Mar. at 3p.m. KOBE, Amoy, S'hai, X'bama, Kutsang Kri. 2nd April at 7a.m. STRAITS & Calcutta..... Fooksang Sat. 3rd April at 8-p.m; KOBE.......... Yuoosang Tues. 19th April at noon. STRAITS & Calouste... Namtang Tues, 18th April at 9pm.
For freight or pkwalgo npply to 1-
JARDINE MATHESON & CO. Ltd.
knowledge of innumerable sub-splendor. Although the Prines jects, but are master of none. It had attended numerous religious may be that there is a growing and civil fotes, he had never been distaste for manual labour, or permitted until last night to that the difficulty of antering Attend an evening function.. | skillod trades is growing greater.
ENORMOUS COST, S
Telephone 215. Central
General Managers.
It is doubtful whether the re- turn for the vast expenditure can be considered adequate to meet j the requirements of the competi tive, specialised, and technical conditions of the present day.
Before You Advertise
COUNT TEL
The Peak Trai
TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU KOBE AND
KENYOKOHAMA Fortnightly Sailings
Mar. 27-5.00 p.m. Apr. 10-6.00 p.m..
• Apr. 24-5.00 p.m.
Dollar President liners offer you luxurious. travel comforts. All staterooms are outside rooms, well-ventilated and cooled by electrio fans. They are furnished with beds (not berths), each having an electric reading lamp. Staterooms with private both predominate, and all have hot and cold running water, The spacious steel swimming tank is always filled with clean sea water.
Decks are broad, and the use of oil-fuel insures their cleanliness. DOLLAR LINE quisine is world-famous-varied fare prepared under the direction of skilled shots. Orchestra music enlivens the voyago. All there travel advantages are youre when you sail on Dollar President liners.
Pres. Lincoln Pras. Cleveland Pres, Plerca
TO MANILA
Mar. 19-3.00 p.m. Apr. 2-8.00 p.m. Apr. 16-8.00 p.m.
For passenger and freight rates, apply to ! HONGXONG AND BHANGHAI BANK BUILDING, GROUND FLOOR, Telephone: Central 2477, 2478 and 795,
KR M
DOLLAR
STEAMSHIP LINE
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPIJ.
Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia.
S.S. VAN CLOON
will be despatched on 18th March noon... For SINGAPORE, PENANO ♣ BELAWAN DELI DIRECT,
Offers excellent, sloon socommodation, all lower beren's English Cuisine, doctor carried, wireless telegraph.
Lat. CLASS FARE to SINGAPORE $100.00. In connection with the Royal, Proket Nav, Co.'s (K.P.M.) ervices to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indies and Kustralia.
Agents JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN. Telephone Central No. 1574, York Building. Charter Road,
land ng "
Optional Cargo will be forward- ad an unless intimation is receiv ed from the Consignees before 9 a.m. Today, requesting it to be landed here. Be
Bills of lading will be counter- signed by the Undersigned," Goods remaining unclaimed after Monday, the End, instant 1926 at Noon will be subject to rent and inding bharges.
All claims must be sent in te me on or before the Thursday, the 25th inet, or they will not be recognised,
All damaged" packages will be examined on Monday, the 22nd instant 1926 at 10 a.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
No fire insurance has beau offerted.
C. R. MIOLLIS,
Acting Agent. Hongkong 16th, March, 1926;
LLOYD TRIESTINO NAVIGA- TION CO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES Tes Steamship "ROSANDRA From Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Karachi, Port Said, Massowab,' Aden. Colombo, Penang
and Singapore,
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are bereby informed that all Goods are being landed at thell risk loto the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd at Kow loog, whenoa 4d/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained Optional Cargo will be forward- unless notice to the contrary be given before 12th instant 1926.
No olaims will be admitted after the Goods have: 'loft the Godowns, and all Goode remain- ing undelivered after the 18th instant will be subject to rent,
All claims against the steamnex must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 28th inst. or they will not be recognized,
All broken, obafed and damag- ed. Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 18th inst. at 10 am by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effeated.
Bill of Lading will be count ersigned by
DODWELL & Co., Ltd.,
Agents
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS MANIFESTO", HONGKONG; Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition; Western Union and Watkins, Benton's Marconi.
Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers, Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.
S. TAIPING" Passenger and Cargo Vessel. Built and Engined at the. &WHAMPOA DOOK Co. Ltd. to the order of the AUSTR for Australian Hongkong Sarvica.
ON DOOK BY THE HO
Plessy address enquiries to the Chief Manager:
R. M. DYER. B SC. MINA,, Kowloon Dook. Hongkon
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