THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
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LINE
REGULAR AND FAST | PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE
"REEXENOB" 2011 April,
Marseilles, London, B'dam & f'burg Marseilles, London, R'dam & Glasgow Murre illos, London, B'datu & ff'burg Marseilles, Landon, B'dam & Dasgow
PATROCLUB" 5th May. **TROILUS" 18 MAY. #ANTENOR" 2nd June LIVERPOOL SERVICE
.
*TELCER" 20th April. Genou, Miles, Hayret špaoj & Q'gow *MENELAUS"
Genon, MD, Havre, L'pool & 'gow Genas, Havre, Liverpool & Ghagw Gunos, lex, Havre, L'pool & 'gow
"HYSON"
"KEEMON!
Int May. 20th May.
1st Jan
Victoria, Vancouver & Seatilo. Victorin, Vancouver & Sanille.
PACIFIC SERVICE vis ROBE & YOKOHAMA. "PHILOOTETES - 17th April.
TYNDAREUA” 12th May. NEW YORK SERVICE VOALCHAS*** 9th April. "DIOMED" 7th May. PASSENGER SERVICE. #PATROCLUB" 8th May. "ANTENOR' 2nd June. "HECTOR" 14th July, *HARPEDON" 8th Sept.
PATROCLUS" 20th Oct.
Boston, New York & Baltimore Now York, Boston & Baltimore
Singapore, Marseilles & London. Singapore, Maravilles & London. Bingapore, Marseilles & London. Singapore, Matouillen & Imadon. Singapore, Marseilles & London.
Also cargo teamors with limited passenger accommodation at specially reduced raros,
For freight and passage rates and information apply to:
Butterfield & Swire.
CANADIAN
Agonte.
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 £83 £80 (Payable in Local Currency.)
VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER
via SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS.
STEAMERS
Hongkong Bhenghal
Leave
. Leach
Kobe
Yokohama Van've
LESTO LEAYD Arrive
EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA Apr. 16 Apr. 19. Apr. 22 Apr 24 May 5
EMPRESS OF ASIA
Apr. 30 May 5 May 6 May 8 May [7]
EMPRESS OF CANADA
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
May 20 May 22 May 31 Jun. 3 Jan. 5 Jon..14 Jun. 16 Jun. 19 Jun. 30] Jun. 24 Jun. 27 Jun. 30 July 3 July 12 July 9 July 12 July 14 July 17 July 26: July 22 July 25 July 28 July 31 Avg. 9 Aug. 6 Aug. 9 Aug. 11 Aug. 14 Aug. 25 Aug. 19 Aug. 22 Aug. 25 Aug. 28 Sept. 6 Sept. 3 Sept. 5 Sept. 8 Sept. 11 Sept. 20 Sept. 16 Sept. 19 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Oct. 4 -(E/Asio and E/Russia call at Naganaki the day after departure from Shanghui).
May 14 May 17 May 28 May 31
EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA Jun. 11 Jun. 14 EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
HONGKONG MANILA-HONGKONG-SERVICE
Zrave
Arrivo
Bongkung
Apr. 23
Minaila
Apr, 21
May 6 May 8
Passenger Department : Freight and Express
E/ASIA
In
Arrive
Hongkong. Apr. 26 Apr. 27 E/CANADA May 9 May 11
Tel. 0, 752 Tol. C. 12.
Cable: "ACANPAO," Cables "NAUTILUS,"
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1926.
TRAVEL IN COMFORT
Aboard
DOLLAR "PRESIDENT" LINERS
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK
VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-FORT SAID -ALEXANDRIA — NAPLES – GENOA MARSEILLES Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK
Fortnightly Sailings
Pres. Van Buren... Pres. Hayes
Pres. Folk.....
Apr. 18-8.00.a.m. Apr. 27-8.000a.m. May 11-8.00 a.m.
TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU KOBE AND
Pres. Cleveland Pres. Pierce..... Pres. Taft
YOKOHAMA
Fortnightly Sailings
Apr. 10-5.00 p.m. .............. Apr. 24-5.00 p.m. May 8-5.00 p.m.
Dollar President liners offer you luxurious travol comforts. All staterooms are outside rooms, well-ventilated and cooled by electric fans. They are furnished with beds (not berthis), each having an electric reading lamp. Staterooms with private bath predominate, and all have hot and cold running water, The spacious steel swimming tank is always filled with ölean sea water,
Decks are broad, and the use of oil-fuel insuros their cleanliness, DOLLAR LINE cuisine is world-famous-varied fare prepared under the direction of skilled chels. Orchestra music`enlivens the voyaga. All these travel advantages are yours when you spil on Dollar President Jiners,
Pres. Pierce
Pres.Taft. Pres.Wilson
TO MANILA
Apr.116-8.30 p.m. Apr. 30-3.00 p.m. May 14-3.00 p.m.
For passenger and freight rates, apply ta BONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING, GROUND FLOGE,.. Telephono: Central 2477, 2478 and 795,
DOLLAR
STEAMSHIP LINE
AMERICAN ORIENTAL
MAIL LINE...
The fast Short Route
to the United States!
'SEATTLE & VICTORIA via,SHANGHAI-KOBE-YOKOHAMA
S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"
April 10th, 5.00 p.m. S.S. "PRESIDENT MCKINLEY" April 22nd, 5.00 p m S.S. "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON" May 4th, 5.00 p.m.
EUROPE LIZ0-£112÷LIO. First Class on the Paciño.
First Cla on American or Canadian Bailway. First Class and Monoclase on the Atlantic, Choice of Trans Continental Railways. Any Line on the Atlantic. Through accommoda. tion and Booking Arranged,
FOR MANILA
S.S. "PRESIDENT MCKINLEY" S.S. "PRESIDENT JEFFERSON". S.S. "PRESIDENT, GRANT":
April 14th, 5.00 p.m. April 26th, 5.00 pm, May 8th, 5.00 p.in.
Through Bills of Lading to a)) Daited States and Canadian Overland paints, also via Panama Canal Lines to Atlantic Ports.
Coples of this paper on file in our OBcos SEATTLE, CE (CAGO, NEW YORK.
For paneage and Freight Booking apply to
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL ZENS
Managing Operatorn for United Status
Telephono Central 2477, 2478 and 795. No. 4, Des Voeux Road. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor,
GREEN TABOOED AT GOLDERS GREEN;
"SUPERSTITIOUS" SUBURB'S
DISLIKES.
"People in Golders Green are very superstitious and won't wear greon," said."Madanie, Rosalie," a Goldora Groen costumier, to [Judgo Sir Alfred Tobin in West- ministor County Court recently,
A costumo manufacturer named Louis Bernstein, of Oxford-stroot, W., sucd Madama Rosalie, of the Parado, Goldars Green, N.W., for 84 14s. 6d. the price of an imitation Kasha two-piece' suit ordered by telophone for a special custom or.
Madame Rosalie had objectod. to its green trimming, and would not accept delivery..
Looking at the suit, Judge Tobin said: "Is it a bathing gown or a dressing gown?" He added: Golders Green does not like green. Why do you not educato them up to what is nice?"
Madame Rosalie: It is the way they have."
Returning the two-place suit, Madame Rosalie had written "There is a terrible-looking green embroidery upon the same, which is very unlucky to us, as nobody in Golders Green comos for that colour."
Remarking that friction seomed to arise about the cost of a new trimming, Judgo Tobin gave judgment for Barnstein with costs.
DEAR RICE,
GENEROUS SHANGHAI
MERCHANTS.
To defray the cost of running
BRAVE WORKMEN.
HONOURED BY KING.
"
TAX PAYMENTS:
HOW THE MONEY GOES.
How errors by Government
How two workmon risked their lives to save their mates is ro- officials eat up the taxpayers called in a recent London Gazette. monoy is shown in the report for It is announced that the King 1924-5 of the Comptroller and has awarded the Edward Modal Auditor-General's roport on the
Revenue Departments.
For instance, a number of fully-
to
George Locke, of Kensal-rise, N., employed by Messrs. Dorman, Long and Company, Ltd.
Alfred Wilding, employed by High Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., paid 10s. shares in a certain com Widnow, and
paty word dcoaptod at par välué, in discharge of income-tax on arrears of debenture interest, and through " an error of judgment on the part of the officer concerned " Wilding's gallant rescue was were sold at 3d. each, though porformed on October 1, 1925, the shares in question had been when a youth named Harper fell quoted on the Stock Exchange at into a vat containing vanadic prices in excess of par vulus. acid at a scalding temperature, Only his head remained above the surface, and Wilding jumped an over-siglit, ropaid £8,000 in into the vat and hold him uy respect of Excess Profits nuty. until help arrived.
Application for a refund was refused, and the Board of Inland The men wore in the vat for Revenue, on legal advice, decided four minutes, and were both to take no further action in the matter. The Board has since severely scaldad.
decided, however, to take counsel's advico....
OXFORD-STREET RESCUE.
The Edward Medalis awarded
to George Locke for his bravery in rescuing another workman namod Dowser. when they were engaged on the orcction of steel work in a new building in Oxford-street.
They were on parallel girdors on the fourth floor when Dowser tripped and fell, striking his heari and lying stunned on the girder.
This girder was seven inches wide and seven foot from the girder on which Locke
WOB working.
Seeing his comrade's fall, Locke léopt BCTOBE the intervening space, and, throwing himself upon the legs of the fallen man pinned him to the girder until help arrived and they were dragged to safety,
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A Somerabt House official, by
Many Post Offico papsioners wors overpaid during the year Pansions (Increase) Act 1924. owing to misinterpretation of the The matter has now been cor rooted, and the Treasury is consi-". doring what course to take in regard to the over-payments.
NO REWARD
AN OVERLOOKED OFFICER.
But for the work of Commander Geoffrey Unsworth, D.S.O., D.S.C.,
of Cleethorpes, the £5,000,000 in bullion might never have been recovered from the sunken liner Laurontic...
the cheap rico depots in Shang- HAWKERS ENRICHED. Swilly when news was received
hai, local Chinesa" commercial organizations behind the move- ment are working to raise funds. The cost of maintaining theso establishments und solling rico below the market price, will be very high..
SELLING "WILLS"
EYESHADES.
Commander Unsworth was Mines Clearance Officer of Lough
in 1917 that the Laurentio had baen mined and was sinking.
Though he was suffering from the effects of being blown up by a mine, Commander Unsworth went Nice, March 1.-The popularity to the vessel's aid, and after 36. of Miss Helen Wills here has hours' work in a south-easterly given unscrupulous Riviera galo, saved the liner's comple
American champion wears on the tennis courts and bearing what is purported to be Miss Wills's signature.
Exposure and strain following.
hospital.
According to the Chinese news- papers, mombors of the Chinese hawkers an opportunity of reap-ment. General and the City Chambersing a rich financial harvest of Commerce met recently under through the sale of eyeshades his previous experience caused the chairmanship of Mr. Fang similar to that which the younga breakdown, and he was taken to Heia-pah and discussed the situa tion. It was announced that two merchants had agroad to soll 100,000 piculs of Saigon rice at $12 a picul which would entail a' In order to create a demand loss of $50,000, owing to the present high price. Ways and means were discussed to raise the money to cover this loss, and it was agreed mutually to share the burden.
Various attempts were made without succoss to locate the mander, Unsworth left his sick sunken treasure ship until Com- for the shades those promoting ved,, and after five day's work the schemo assure each prospec-found the wreck and buoyed the. tive customer that that particular position. shade he is examining is, the ono
which Miss Wills wore in her His health was impaired, but classic struggle at Cannes against his servicos have not been The two Chambers agreed to also lead the purchaser to believe connection with the successful Mille. Suzanne Lenglen. They recognised among the awards in give $10,000, the Native Bankers' Guild and the Chinese Bankers Association promised $5,000 each, several other associations pro- mised to give $5,000. as a joint donation, and the Rice Merchants' Guild promised £2,000.
that the shade was autographed recovery of the bullion-Daily
Chronicle. by Mise Wills.
So great is the admiration for Milo. Lenglón's American rival boon that those who have victimized by the hawkers have given anywhere from the equiva- Best quality rice was quoted at fent of $5 to $10 in their $15 to $16.40 a picul, although $16 enthusiastic desire to get what is supposed to be the fixed each believed was a precious maximum.
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souvenir.
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COUNT THE “TELEGRAPHS
In The Streets
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KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
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Royal Packet Navigation Ca, of Batavia.
S.S. VAN CLOON
will be despatched on 15th April noon.
For SINGAPORE, PENANG & BELAWAN DELI ́DIRECT.
Offers excellent saloon accommodation, all lower barth,
English Onisins, doctor carried, wireless telegraph.
1st. CLASS FARE to SINGAPORE $100.00. In connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K.P.M. sarvions to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indies and Australia.
Agents —JAVA CHINA JAPAN LIJN, Telephone Contral No: 1574, York Building. Charter Rond.
INDO CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION Co., Ltd.
BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination,
SHANGHAI...
| TIENTSIN..
HAIPHONG via Hoihow SANDAKAN. STRAITS & Caleutta... KOBE..
.............. KOBE... STRAITS & Calcutta
Bailings.
дооп,
Steamer.
Leesang Satur. 10th April at Boon. Chipshing Sun. 11th April at Mingsang Tues. 13th April at 10 s.m. Matieang Thurs. 15th April at noon.. Nameang Fri: 16th April at 3 pm. Yuensang Satur, 17th April at
Howding Thurs. 22nd April at 7 a.m... Kutsang. Fri. 29th April at 3 pm. * Passage apply to m JARDINE MATHESON & CO., Ltd.
General Managers.
For freight of
Telephone 215. Central-
noon.
T. S. S. “SIANG WO"
Passenger & Cargo Rivor Steamer, built and engined at Kowloon Dock, by the Hongkong and Whampus Dook Co., Ltd., to the order of the Indo China Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., for service on the Middle Yantsze, Hankow-I-obang.
Ploais address enquiries to the Chief Manngor,
R. M. DYER. B. Sc., M.IN.A. KOWLOON DOCE HONGKONO.
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