THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
P. & 0.-BRITISH INDIA, APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES.
COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND) Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading for Straits, Java and Burma, Coylọn India, Persian Gulf, Mauritlus; E. & S. Atrics, FAustralasia, including, New Zealand & Queensland Ports, Rod Sea, Egpyt, Constantinople, Greece, Levantine Ports,
durope, Etc.
UNDER CONTRACT WITH"H.M. GOVERNMENT.)
From" Hong-
Tons
kong (about
Destination
6,989 19 Sept. 10 a.m. | Marseilles & London
M'los, L'don, A'werp & Hull Straite, Colombo, Bombay
& Karachi
BICENTENARY OF BATH.
RALPH ALLEN AND JOHN
WOOD.
The Bath Festival Drama whli
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1927.
A ROTHSCHILD DUEL CHALLENGE.
FAMOUS JEWELLER
CONSIGNEE NOTICE
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
From MIDDLESERO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS and OFFENDED.
PHILIPPINES. The Stenship
"RENGLOE" Paris: A drams which led to
Consignees at Cargo are hereby ENINSULAR 8 ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL HAIL STEAMERS celebration of the bicentenary of jeweller, of the Rue de la Paix, landed at their risk into the hazardous was to continue, a fortnight in M. Louis Cartier, the famous informed that all Goods are being
Citizen House, opened a month challenging Baron Maurice de and/or extra hazardous Gądowns of ago, but it happens that this Rothschild, a member of the The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf yoår gives us much more
im-Chamber of Duputies, to fight a and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or portant bicentenary in the history duel has caused a great sensation from the wharvas delivery may be
obtained. of the city. In the year 1727 in Paris.
Baron de Rothschild, who is a the Goods have loft the Godowns, and No claims will be admitted after began that remarkable effort in rebuilding and town planning descondant of the founder of the all Goods remaining undelivered after which drew from Frederic Harri-famous financial firm, in prepar- the 9th instant will be subject to on a noble tribute: "There is ing a list of guests for a dance to tent nowhero extant in England any be given in his magnificent home scheme of town planning at once so in the Rue Monceau a few nights convenient and so artistic as the ago, wrote down the name of Mme. vast constructions of the two Louis Cartier, but left out that of Woods, their imitators and follow her husband, the jeweller." ers in Bath. To my eye the north side of Queen-square has no su perior in England; the circus is a real lesson in Palladian decoration of modest town' houses. But Wood's special gift as an artist, the impression of dignity and re- pose, is carried to its highcat point in what is known as Royal-cros- cent."
il
INOVARA
*DEVANHA
8,155
17th Sept.
KIDDERPORE
5,334
19th Sept.
KHYBER
9,114
NYANZA
7,013
MALWA
10,986
NAGPORE
LABEMIR
5,263 8,985
FACEDONIA
11,120
#MONGOLIA
16,504
1st Oct. 12th Oct. 15th Oct.. 20th Oct. 29th Oct. 12th Nov. 26th Nov.
M'les, L'don, A'werp & Hull Straits, Colombo & Bombay Marseilles & London Straits, Colombo & L'don M'los, L'don, A'werp & Hull Marseilles & London Marseilles & London
*Calis at Port Sudan. Does not carry 2nd class passengers.
Does not carry passengers.
Frequent connections from Port Said for Passengers & Cargo to Constantinopla, Pyrens' Smyrna and other Lovani Ports by Steamers of the Khedivial Mai? B. 8, 0..
TAIMA
BRITISH INDIA-APGAR SAILINGS
10,000 ! 12th Sept. | S'pore. Penang & Calcutta EASTERN AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
4,500 30th Sopt. 28th Oct. 2nd Dec.
ALBANS
ARAFURA | 6,000
ΤΑΝΤΑ
6:956
Manila, Sandakan, Thurs. Island, Townsville, B'bane. Sydney and Melbourne.
Regular Monthly Sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia
Tb. & 4.8. 8. Co., Ltd. nemers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu Kolambugan, Tawan, Timor. Darwin, or other parts en route as inducement offer.
Proquant connections from Australia with the following - The Union 8.8. Con Steamers to the United Kingdom vi2 New Zealand,
Vancouver San Francisco, etc.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 23rd Instant or they' will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged The social secretary of the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, baron lu mistake sent the in-9th instant at 10 a.m.
where they will be examined on the vitation to "M. and Mine. Cartier."
No Fire Insurance has been effect- "What are you doing here?" od. Baron Monceau asked M. Cartier Rts of Lading will'be'countersign- as soon as he saw him.
ed by
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD,
COPENHAGEN. The Motor Ship.
"ASIA" having arrived, Consignees of enrgo. are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong. and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
"I am here because you, invited |, me," replied M. Cartier sharply. GIBE. LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Agents. "You are mistaken," the baron
Hongkong, September, 2, 1027. insisted, while a number of On another occasion Harrison guests listened to the conversa- said: "Citizens of Bath may say tion in amazement. with ancient Athenians: We live
"Your invitation was addressed in a sweet pullucid air.". Thanks to M. and Mme." declared "M. to the transformation which began Cartier hotly. in 1727 that boast is well justified, but it is doubtful whether it could
Angry Departure, « have been said with perfect con-
"Anyway, I don't want you fidence before John Wood began here," the baron remarked and his work. The best-known des- walked away. cription of Bath in the seventeenth- M. 'Cartier, flushed with anger, rentury, is that of Macaulay, and called his wife, who was dancing and although modern Bath at the time, and they walked out torians have assailed that account of the house. with some acrimony they cannot The first thing' next morning No claims will be admitted after M. Cartier sent the invitation the goods have left the Godowns and was a fortuitous collection of not marked "M. and Mme." to Baron the 12th of September, 4 p.m. will be all goods remaining undelivered after very splendid buildings.
de Rothschild. He also sent his subject to rent card and two seconds to explain,.
All broken, chafed and damaged that their friend desired to uvenge goods are to be left in the Godown, the insult of the previous evening where they will be examined by with swords, pistols, or any other Messrs. Anderson & Ashe on the weapon which the baron desired 10th of September, 1927, at 10 a.m. All claims against the vessel must and asked him to name his sec-
bo presented to the Undersigned be- fore the 15th September, 1927, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected; Bills of Lading will be counter-
The F.&O. Royal Mail Steamers to London via Suez Canal. The F&O. Branch Service of Steamers to London via the Ospa. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers or Southampton and London via deny that the Bath of 1685
Pagan Canal,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
5,273
12th Sept.
7,936 15th Sept. 10,986
16th Sept. 7,021 22nd Sat. 5,252
27th Sout.. 30th Sept.
ALIPORE
► PAKLIWA
*MALWA
NYANZA
LAHORE
KASHMIR
8,985
ARAFURA
6,000
MACEDONIA MONGOLIA 16,504
11,120
TANDA
6,956
MANTUA
KASHGAR
10,946 9,005
4th Oct. 15th Oct. 29th Oct. 8th Nov. 12th Nov, 26th Nov.
S'hai, Maji, Kobe & Yoko Amay, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobo & Yoko Shanghai, Moji & Kobe S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko 'S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yako Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.
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Parcels Mazauring not more than 24 ft. x 2ft. x 1ft. will be received at the Co's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights, etc., apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,
Agents.
, P. & Bldg. Connaught Rd.. ...
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GLEN LINE.
Fare Hongkong to London £82.
LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG via STRAITS & COLOMBO.
Motor Vassel "GLENGARRY" (Via Oran)... Motor Vessel "GLENLUCE" (Via Oran) Steamship
21st Sept. 19th Oct. "CARNARVONSHIRE" (Via Oran) 2nd Nov, Motor Vessel "GLENTARA" (Via Oran}
30th Nov.
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VLADIVOSTOCK.
Motor Vessel, "GLENLUCE" Steamship
6
"CARMARTHENSHIRE"
Motor Vessel "GLENBEG"
Motor Vessel "GLENTARA"...
Steamship
"CARNARVONSHIRE"
Due Hongkong
a.m. 8th Sopt. 18th Sept. . 29th Sept. 18th Oct. 27th Oct.
been
signed by,
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
AGENTS. Hongkong, Sept. 5, 1927,
ARMOUR'S ESTATE.
A City Beautiful. John Wood, the elder, was born about 1705, and is believed to have Yorkshireman, "Wood senior," says Peach, "came to the
onds. city in 1727 at the Instigation of
Baron de Rothschild laughed at Allen, who had already discovered the genius of the architect. With the idea of a duel, and the affair out Allen, Wood could have done is still in suspense, with every one anxious to know what will little; with him, by him, and through him. he could do every happen next. The baron left to- thing. Allen had acquired the day for Marienbad, and M. Cartier
is on a motoring tour. unworked quarries of Combe Down: Wood understood prae- tically and scientifically the no ture of the stone, and what it not been "the chronicler of his own achievements in mountebank was capable of in the great build-diction," but his work speaks for
contoni- ing operations that he
itself. Outside the city he built plated." It is perfectly true that
Allen's vast country house, party Allen. Be friend and patron of undertaken to demonstrate the Fielding, public-spirited and able superiority of Bath over Portland to give full rein to his civic pride stone. Wood was fortunate in by his immensely profitable having a son to succeed him, and his first chance. but it is not carry on his idens. In many less true to say that Allen could cases the father had designed mour shows an estate valued at a what the son executed, but Royal-little over a million dollara have done little without the crescent was, the younger man's-Renter's American Service. genius of Wood. His first work work. was Allen's town house, still pre-
The effects of these works on served, and from that he proceed the prosperity of Bath may be ed to a series of great operations judged by the fact that while at which so changed Bath that "rethe close of the seventeenth con- gions that were sinks of iniquity tury the population did not ex and dirt, and the resert of the ceed 3,000,, by the middle of the rabble, were turned into graceful eighteenth it was 9,000, and by the and stately thoroughfares, which end over 30,000. We are rather have won for Bath a place amonapt to imagine that town-planning the most beautiful cities of is an invention of our own age.
"grosaposts" contract, gave Wood
Europe.
Of Wood 'himself it has been said that he might have been yet more highly appreciated had he
The work of Wood and Allen in Bath from 1727 onwards is a useful reminder.
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Tuesday, 20th Sept. Tuesday, 4th Oct. Tuesday, 18th Oct.
*Calle Los Angeles, Omitting Honolul LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseille & Ports.
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Saturday, 10th Sept. Saturday, 24th Sept. Saturday, 8th Oct.
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RENULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE BETWEEN
JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN.
From
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Java Java, Mcsr
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Expected Will leave
on or about fan or about
"
Tilkembang S'hai, K'ining | In Port 8th Sept Batavia
8th Sept 8th Sept 14th Sept | Shanghai 12th Sept 14th Sept. Amoy, N. China 12th Sept 14th Sept M'ksar & Java Tilsaroca
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26th Sept 1.28th Sept Batavia
1Jlmanoek N. China
Tjisaroea S'hai, K'lung
Tjikini
Thitaroem
N. China
Tjisondari
Batavia
2nd Oct
4th Oct
Jave, Meer
1 N. China
10th Oct 10th Oct
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Tilsalak
6th Oct S'hai & K'lung
6th Oct Batavia
12th Oct! Amoy & China 13th Oct Batavia
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BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.
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AND
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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG
8.8. "CITY OF ÉVANSVILLE"
8.8. "GLAUCUS"
8.8. "CITY OF BOMBAY"
8.8. "THESEUS"
8.8. "CITY OF EASTBOURNE"
via Suez Canal 8th Sept. via Suez Canal 24th Sept. via Suez Canal 9th Oct. via Suez Canal 23rd Oct. via Suez Canal 6th Nov.
Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at owner
option.
Subject to Change without notice
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Hongkong & Canton. Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd., Canton,
AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL-LINE, LTD.
"
'Changte" & "Taiping."
THESE NEW VESSELS MAINTAIN A REGULAR SERVICE FROM HONGKONG TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS, VIA MANILA, AND THURSDAY ISLAND. Through Bills of Lading issued to all Australian, New
Zealand and Tasmanian Ports.
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TAIPING CHANGTE
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Du HanarONG ON UN ABOUT
'In Port
11th October
8th November
9th December
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4th November.
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to Java, Fremantlo, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and VICE VERSA.
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AUSTRALIA'
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other services.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE...
8.8. #CITY OF EVANSVILLE" 8.8. "CITY OF BOMBAY
8.S. "CITY OF EASTBOURNE"
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
'via Suez Canal. via Suez Cansi
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vis Suez Canal
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BAILS HENCE ON ON ABOUS
13th September
18th October 15th November. 16th December
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8th September.
9th October. 6th November.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE 27th September. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
4.
25th October. - .-
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