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Intimations.

THE CHINA MAIL.

CAPTAIN COOK.

*The Greatest Navigator."

was my ambition to go further than [any man End gone." The Captain James | Cook, the seams to whom your Empire. owes Australia and New Zealand, whom

MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA rivals and onomies reclaimed na "the

(MITSU BISHI (0)

COAL DEPARTMENT.

Intimations

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1911

Intimations.

BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE,

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EVERY EVENING AT 9.15 PM

Brilliant Moving Pictures.

greatest navigator of all time;" explained. Rinwolf and his work. On Feb. 14, 1779, Cook was stunned and stabbed to death by the natives of Hawaii, In May, 1911, a

VAUDEVILLE, potantission has just been given for a status to commemomto him in London.7.15 P.M. Pictures only.

SCLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA: He that believeth," it is writtas, SIMA, OCHL MUTABE, YO-shall not made haste." We may, bo- SHINOTANI, HOJO, KANADA, liere in our groat on in Enghud. Wo NAMAFUTA, SAYO, SHINNAW and KAMIYAMADA Collaries.

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AGENCIES: YOKOHAMA: M. Asada, Esq. CHINKIANG: Mesars Gearing &

MANILA: Messrs Macondray &

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Y. SHIBUYA,

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Hongxora. Hongkong. Aprü 29, 1911.

cortainly do not make haste to honour them. It is true that this statue will not be absolutely the only London memorial Captain Cook, there is a portrait medallion of him' on the walls of the Colonial fee. A tablet on a house in the Milu-en-road records that Cook and his wife lived there. But no one could maintain that these triflos selequately com momomto the great explorer's work. In November, 1908, Sir JH, Carruthors, ex- Prime Minister of New South Wales, wrote to the, Praw, urging that a monument should be erected in London" to Cook's memory. Mr Herber Samuel, as M.P. for Cleveland whero Cook, was born brought the matter to the notice of the British Empire League. The result was the foruntion of a committee to obtain

subscriptions and carry out the project. | King Georite, than Prince of Wales, was elected chairman. Lord Brassey becama the treasurer, and on the executive wore Lord Blyth, Sir Hugh Bell, Admiral Sir N, Bowden-Smith, Sir John Cockburn, Sir Mathy Pandoral and số For HP Recves. The response to their appaat has been a satisfactory that a commission has been given and a site chosan. The statue will stand on the Mall, close to the Admir- 816 alty arch, on the left hand looking towards Buckingham Palace. Such a situation, with the buildings of the Admiralty in the back- ground, and the memorial to the Royal Marines, a party of whom stood by Cook

"CORONATION ORGAN RECITAL. MONDAY, JUNE 19TH, AT 5.30 PM.

ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

Land of Hope and Glory (Coronation

Ode) ......

....Elgar

Epilogue Fanner of St. George).....Edgar by the Cathedral Choir and Philharmonic Society. SOLOIST: Mr Frank AusTIN.

Air and Variations............Start Serenade.........

*****%ཝཾཝཾསྒྲ Frank Bridge Holsworthy Church Bells....Wesley,

Hongkong, June 12, 1911.

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to the last, and were killed with him, in the immediate vicinity, is obviously won appropriate. The sculptor is Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., RA., of whose work that

The Wrong

WAY TO READ.

POPULAR ARTISTES.

If you have to hold the print

too faraway to see clearly, the open will-

be strained to take out the fine print.

POPULAR PRICES: SEE HAND · BILLS.

Lessee and Manager................. Hongkong, June 1, 1911.

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.......R. H. STEPHENSON.

730

LANTERNS and

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SPECIALLY MADE FOR THE CORONATION CELEBRATIONS.

THE under-mentioned Firms has been specially recommended by the Chairman of The Coronation Committee for sale of Kill APLorded the

The Prices are as follows:

? inches in diameter.....

4

...nt Bu Fer 100.

Candles to suit same and to barn 4 hours. 2

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We have alaq, in stook Small Lanterns (8 inches in diameter) cost 84.00 per 100.

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noble example, the Victoria Memorial. G. E. SPECIAL ANTIFOULING FOR[JYACHTS. adoran the other end of the Ball.

BEFORE THE MANI.

Cook is one of the great seacon whose career began before the mast. He was the son of an agricultural labourer, and spent some of his earliest years crow-scaring on a Yorkshire farm. He picked up some rag of an education at the village school of Martan, but more than a rag it cannot have NOTICE is hereby given that the post. hope tine to the age of lo he was bound poned EXTRAORDINARY GENE.apprentice to a shopkooper at Staithes, that RAL MEETING of the above-named picturesque little fisherman's hamlet nonz Company will be held at the Hongkong Whithy beloved of artists. Hotel at 12 No on SATURDAY the for him, and for England, there was 17th day of June, when the following special resolutions will be submitted.

Fortunately

a quarrel with the shopkeeper, his inden-

1. That Geo. Fenwick & Co., Ltd. betures were cancelled, and he began a new

wound up voluntarily.

apprenticeship to a firm of Whitby ship- owners, Just as Francis Drake learnt his trade aboard a coaster in the army seas,

2. That the partners in the firm of Mesas Percy Smith, Sech and Fleming, of Hongkong, be appointed Liquidators with power for any one of them to exercise any of the powers of such Liquidators.

The above Resolutions if passed will require confirmation at a subsequent Extraordinary General Meeting.

By Order of the Board of Directore,

JOHN L. ANDREW, General Manager, Burgkong, June 9, 1911.

770

James Cook's Beamanship came from beating about the North Sea and the Baltic. At the beginning of the war with France, which, under the inspiration of Chatham,

won for us Canada and the mastery of Iadin, Cook, who was 27, had risen to be mate of his craft. Ho volunteered for the Navy, and was entered as able saman on a 60-gun ship.

The captain, Hugh Pallisser, was, liko

Hongkong, December 13 1910.

AGENT: CANTON, H, LEE,

FOR THE HOT SEASON !!!

If you like a cold drink go and get an

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renson, partly, no doubt, in recognition of the young fellow'a professional skill, Pallis- ser obtained for him a warrant as master.

ON and after 15th instant the following The "masters" in the old Navy did the

additional cars will be ran a

WEEK DAYS:

7.15 M. 3.15 2.M. 8.10.11. 10.00 P.M.

10.30 P

P.M. 11.00 P.M. 11.30 P.M.

SUNDAYS:

9.15 A.M. 8.10 P.M. 10.00 r.. 10.30 P.3. 11:00.P.M.

11.30 r.M.

'The above service between 7.30 am, and on week days will be every quarter

8.

work which now falls to the navigating Beutenant. They learnt their business, as a rule, in the pierchant service. The com- missioned officers, though they had to pas Fan-examination in navigation, generally know as little, as possible of that part

of their profession, They might excal

in tactics, as leaders of idén, in prae

of an hour instead of every 10 minutes. tical seaannship, but the the

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,matical business of navigation, and sonic-

General Managers.

Hongkong, June 2, 1911.

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During Miss Massey's absence in

times more than the purely mathematical Shanghai enquiries for Belfast Barker

part, was left to the amaters. As master of

the Mercury, Cook miled on the expedition Marine Motors, Maguetos, Coils, Spares,

of Wolfe and Saunders which conquered

Quebec. In no small degree, the military

succses of the campaign was owing to the etc., may be addressed to

kilalamanship of Saunders and his

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO GENERAL MANAdzus, Hosaxong. acers, mul. Cook was one of those who

r!

J. T. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGER FOR THE EAST, TOKYO,

Rurveyed the unknown clunnel of the St. LARrence, and piloted the fleet, with its inserts. A little later, thanks again in Tutal Assets Dec. 31, 1910...0.8494,716, 029 Pallisser's friendship, he was appointed

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otal paid Policyholders 2030 Total Expenses for 1010 drons earnings from interest

and Renta för-1910...... Grus rate of Income fruin

"Investamentis, JOJO Hongkong, May 30, 1011.

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85,005,459 vino auryergor of the coast of New 10,675,187 foundinnd and Labrador," The excellence 53,430,300 (of his work won him a Lieutenant's 0,92,032 mision and the command of the 21,646,328 Endeavour, which was vont out to the

Pacific to observe the transit of Venus. 4.48%

IN THE OUTI KEAN. That voyage was to have more than cientific remalta. The South Seas bad boon ploughed by European, keels for two centuries. It is said that Magellin's crew

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versed in literature, has been a teacher they tell us, had jussed Torres Smits in European officials nud merchants in this the sixteth century, New Zealand had Colony for over ten years.

pana tumas in the Chinese rain hallon, and years before Cros rounded the Horn. But He has a good method of training Euroheen discovered and named a hundred possessed of a fent rate certificate is still the Facite was an unknown ses

nese teher. He has also a good know Chinese leries of Mandarin, a believed in a vast southern contincot Those who intend Barning the Chinese stretching from somewhere near the shores Language are requested to write care of of Asia to the Antarctic Polo Cook dis Chiv ut office or direct to 37, Holly covered what Now Zoeland was like, sailed wood Ron Ist Bour

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