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MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1918.

SHIPPING

P. & 0. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

TO

MARINE INSURANCE POLICIES

THE CHINA MAIL.

Lmenta infa uch a connection_bcludes policy of insurance. A contract of sale, at the price bif, it will erakoout thakse pool is aceded that one of the YANGTSZE'S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL.de which it contemplates is a The Judicial Committee of the Trivy any contest, the more expression" whips policy. may be that, detached from Commeil, butors Lønt Parker, Tard Ngui [ping dement ** would wiggest that ce e and Sir Arthur Channel, has given of them is a policy, When, however, the its judgment on an appeal by the Yang-expression is and in itse Tusaraner Association, U., from there is nothing but the language of the tiet aud decision by the Supreme Court of Ceylon, contract to determine its wang it,

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, In the Court below the respondent, must be enstrid as hieaning ach down-

TAKING PARSE ANI CARGO TO

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, **.

Due

Due Marseilles London 1917, 1917.

Steamers

to

Colombo

Хоте Hongkong Noon

Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombe.

Whea Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO

Accommodation in the connecting Stammar from COLOMBO in definitely reserved in held the bill of lading nar, the policy of

Hongkong at the time of Booking.

On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.

SAILINGS DIRECT TO

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA

S. B

Lore Hongkong About

Pussereits may travel by Railway in Japan botwo Ports of Call tree of charge. Return Tickets are available by Messageries Madtimes Company,

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

(Non- Transhipment),

IN ADDITION TO TITE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS,

WILL LEAVE DIRECT POR

MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

incurve. After the goods had been delivered from the ship, au anunt is (preciented-gale speace up in the port of Columba on December 16, 2017, and 23 pieres of the teak' were lost at sen

INTIMATIONS

MITSUBISHI SHOJI

!, "

KAISHA, LTD. (Mitsubishi Trading Co.) COAL GENERAL IMPORTS andı

EXPORTS

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF

AGENTS FOR SAKITO COAL

Head Office: TOKYO.

Branches and

·

SHIPPING

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

IS Mail Line. OPERATING THE NEW FIEST CLASS STEAMERS

ECUADOR,

"VENEZUELA ***

and *** COLOMBIA, 14000 Tóna vach. *** HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO, SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU,

The Sunshine Belt

| most Comfortable Route to America and Europe. Sailings from Hongkong at Noon.

24. "COLOMBIA" 8.S. VENEZUELA! 8.8. "ECUADOR"

...WEDNESDAY, June 18h. 1919

WEDNESDAY, July 17th, 2018 WEDNESDAY, Aug. 14th, 1918

J

These Steamers have the most modera equipment Including overbead

electric fans and electric lighting ALL LOWER BERTHS and large ***

comfortable Stateroma (All single and two berthe^only),

The Safety and Comfort of Fassengers is our first consideration. Special care is given to the culains, and the attendance a

pavargary casot be surpassed.

Tickets are interchangeabla with the Toyo Khan Raisha and the...

-Canadian Pazite Ocean Services La Ma For further information, rates, literature, sche files soc, apply to—

COMPANY'S OFFICE in Alexandra Badiding TREXPRONS 141.

Chater Ramit,

Adamjee Lukmanje, brought an uction Iments as are sppropriate to the contract Tagainst the appellants as underwriters In the case of a sale"ex ship," the who had insted a policy of marine insur.weller has to cause delivery to be made ance, dated November 14, 1915, nu trak to the Buyer from a ship which has ar lugs from Hangkok to Calambo.

The rived as the port of delivery and has policy was on 382 logs, and the main reachet a place therein, which is usust iissue, and the only issue material, was for the delivery of goods of the kind in TAKASHIMA, OCHT. MUTARE whether the respondent was entitled to gestion. The seller has therefore to claim the benefit of the policy in respect pay the freight, or otherwise to release HOJO,NAMAFUTA, SAYO, KANADA, KISHIDAKE. TOSHINOTANI of HH logs.

The logs arrived on the shipowners' lien and to furnish the BNNEW, KAMIYAMADA, BIRAL, hound the steamship"Hild at Colombo,payer with an effectual direction to the and OYUBARI COAL MINES."

buyer is not bound to pay for the goods, atal respondent took delivery. He never ship to deliver. Till this is done the

Till this is done he may have an insur able inferest in prisati, bet neme that can correctly he fescribed as an intervat upon, goods," nor any interest which the seller, a seller, is bound, to insure On June 20, 1914, respondent write to for him. If the seller insime, le does the sellers nesige sad asked to have these for his own purposes and of his own bili et heling and pedig a strane motičn

nering the hat logs sent to himead

Again the mere documents do not teke; the agents replied enclosing the darn the pisey of the der side a coma. Tokyo Hakodato, Murorau,

ents but asking for their retur, a tract. They are not the bjes nutter Otaru, Vadivostok, Peking. Tientsin HUNGRONG & SHANGHAI they were the property of the Bombay of the sale. If an encored bill of lading Bairon. Tsimani, Hankow, tinnghai. Thoranh Trading Corporation, Ltd. This is delivered to the buyer it is given as Taipeh, Hongkong. Canton, Haiphotirrup Capital.. respondent, did not allege he had given a delivery order and not with any inten- Manila, Singapore Calenta, Loadon Baskey Fosse ung instructives for insurance, and it was tion of making him a party lable upon tot alleged that the sellers took out the it, he of vesting him "with "the property policy of insurance with the intention to ju the goods by the mere delivery of :- ever respondent or had ässigned to him; dormaent. Is the gods are not at the any interest in the policy.

Atoming the judgment of the Court nothing frous which to infer an obligation buyer's risk during the voyage, there is on the seller, and therefore an intention on his part, effect an inornnes en the bugie's behalf."

Calling at SINGAPORE, FOR SWETTENEAM, PENANG, COLOS Cont of Ceylan held

AND PORT SAID, -

CARRYING IT AND 2ND SALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

STEAMERS.

PROFCEED SAILINGS:

Lears E'LONG

bou;

Lea to

S'MORI

abou

Due t M'GRILLKA. if calling aom

Duu LONDON about

THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Barth Firnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.

Round-the-World Tickets and Through fickets to New York in connection ith the Principal Mail Lines.

Return Tickets at fare and a hall available to Europe for Two Years; or to Intermediate Ports for Six Months.

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be cancelled or altered without notice.

or advice.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

"

Representatives:

Nagasald, Karatan, Wakamatsu, Moji Kure, Kobe Osaka d Nagoya

and New York.

Cable Addres

Hongkong: "IWASAKI”. Canton, Haiphong: "IWASAKISAL", Code:-A, A. B. C. 8th Ed.,

Western Union. and Bentley's..

BANKS

BANKING CORPORATION

Sterling Silver

21,500,00029/1,000,000

$,500,000

RESTRY-ELABILITY OF PROPRIETORS ässerumqu

$15,000,000

$34,400,000 $1,000,000

COURT OF DIRECTORS. Hon. Mr. P. R. Holyoak.-Chairman,

G. T. M. Edkins, Faq,--Deputy

Chairman

the Play-Banah Trading Corporation. Lad, invared the goods for the promplete se transit ander circum. stames in which it was stal to insure, 'meets, fist, of all, implied sorus docu-

it was amid that cash against doen Agency for :-THE OSAKA MARINE

& FIRE INSURANCE CO... Gubby, Esq.A. Plummer, Esq. 8. H. Dodwell Esq. E. V. D. Parr, Esq. al de communication to the most other than a delivery order, be- respondent on the subject of insurance,

LTD.. OSAKA

Hon. Mr. emise of the use of the plural, aïd,

8. KAWATE, Manager.

No. 14. PZDDIE STREET, HONGKONO,

it was only reasonable to suppose they grandly, and have reference to the For Particulars, apply tomo contemplated when they made the inanepiajes of the voyage, so as to take the are at the respondent was a person to contract, inaloons to a c.iz. sale, sipre whom the goods might appertain during it doenzenta the continuance of the marine adventure, of the goods," this would be implied by only, meanty delivery. They did it in terms find that the wellers law. The answer seems to be, on the

er intended to cover any interest of the

respondent,

la delivering judgment, Lord Summer enid: The trial Judy was of spicion tha the property in the goods passed to the buyer before shipment, and that in sh ping them the sellers had acted as his

אnsca Wז:

effected for him, The

first point, that the oral documents orders, one for each shipment, or by tro would be satisfied either by two delivery. Joments, a delivery order and a recript "ku tire fright; in the case of each ship-

ment

fie the sewerd point there is nothing,

imply, and etaily there is nothi

espere sodething which the law would

in it to compel a Court to give simple

Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents /4genti Hence he inferred that the in- prision inch a contract is found to regarding arrival of consignments expect I of which they have received documents Supreme Court apparently treated the Any damaged packages angt be left in the Godoris for examination by the contract as if it contained an implied Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs Goddard and Douglas, at 10 achition on the sellers' part to insure on Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be presented within ten days of the the buyer in respect of such stingent stearner's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised No Chima will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

interest in the goods as he might have For Further Information, Fassage Fares, Freights, Handbooks, Dates of Sallings while they were at . Neither view ata., apply to.

F. L. KNIGHT,

Acting Superintendent.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

(JAPAN MAIL. 8. S. CO)

SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBIECT TO ALFERATION, DESTINATION

STEAMER & DISPLACEMEN

SALLING DATES

METEOR CARACE

and well-known work a peuning which Bole distributors of does not belong to them, and which dora belong to other words or letiers equally well known though not so simple. in was, or indeed could be,' sustained on

truth, however, appen, nor kid the attention of either

"canli gulust does- Court been directed to the true question, cash on delivery, that is, delivery of ments does carry the inatter beyond) whether the evidence showed that the the goods, for it imports a convenient insurance was effected on the buyer's behalf.

mercantile. way of effecting the same

It is clear that the policy itself evi-object without the inconvenience of a dence no such intention. The sellers, payment at or contemporaneous with the and the sellers alone, were throughout that payment conld not be demanded discharge overside. I was admitted interested in the major part of the cur even against documents," til the alp Even es fo the 144 logs. until the hip had arrited with the pods. The pra arrived, and came to deliver overside, they, and they alore, had the interest

vision enables payment to he made in a properly describable by the words used nunting-house and ordinary counes of business, without reference to the it the policy, viz., upon goods." f the buyers were to fail to pay for the Precise stage which the process of tum timber in accordance with the contract,bling the logs into the water may happeni

to have reached.. their interest in it would continue after

Their Lordships are therefore of opinion

Shanghai, Kobe & sMishima Mara, 16,000 tons BAT, 22nd June, 11 ..discharge bverside, for it would remain that there was no vidence no which it

Yokohama

Nagasaki, Kobe &

Yokohama

Kanagawa Maru,

12,500 tons SAT, 22nd June, 11 a.m.

12,300 lons SAT., 20th July, 11 am,

•Aki Mara

Shanghai, Moji &

Kobe

London or Liverpool via S'pore, Colombo, Delagoa Bay & Cape Town Melbourne via Manila Zamboanga, Thursday Is., Townsville, Brisbane, & Sydney

New York via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, San Francisco & Panama Canal

Bombay via Singapore, Malacca,

& Colombo

Calcutta via Singapore, Penang &

Rangoon

4 Omitting Shanghai and/or Moji

their property. Even if these logs were paid for against documents, as was the could be found that the polié wes was the inclusion in the policy of cover affected on behalf of the respondent, or against raft and praft risk was necessary

to cover his interest in the goods, and as to the residue, and was of no sigal that he could not we on it. They will Seance in the present connection.

therefore Jumbly advise his Majesty that both judgments should be set aside with the appeal should be allowed, and that

corts here and below.

Two suggestions were made in are ment: One was that against doen- menis" means in the language of com metve against a policy of insurance and snadry other documents; the other, that en chligation, binding the sellers to in- FOR DATES OF SAILING inferred because the effect of the con- sire on the buyer's behalf, might be

APPLY AT THE COMPANY'S tract was to require payment not merely. against goods delivered ex ship in a OFFICE,

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Next Bailing from Hongkong:

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For further information apply to

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BANK

BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE,

MAXWELL CARS. Automobiles for Hire and for Sale

at reasonable Price.

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LONDON, BANKRs-London COUNTY AND WESTITKE BANK, LITIKO.

HONGKONG-LERIST ALLAWED.

On Current Account at the rate of Two

per cent. per annum on the daily balance

.ON FIXED DIPOJENI (---.

For 3 months 2 per cent. per annum. L6 12

N. J. ETABE

Chiat Manager

Hongkong, March 23, 1918.

HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK

BANKS

"EDERLANDSCHE

HANDEL

CHLAPUIS, MAATSCH

(NETHERLÅEDE TEL EXCIPIT)

HORÁKÓ

CANTAL 75,000,000— (£8,250 (C FAID-60,000,000— (£3,000,4«**

FD 1.686,40X— (E_900,20

HEAD OFFICE—ÀMITINDAM, Branches at The Hague S

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HEAD AGENCY—BATAVIA,

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MAKLMAR

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Correspondouts it,

Madra, Pondicherry.

algo, Haiphong

RayGoor,

BAKARANG

BRANGMAL

BLWGAPORE,

BORRA KANIA (Bolo)

FERING der (Dell) Trast

Barone

TJLGATVAR,

Colomb cute, Engkok Amey, Yoko New

hans, Kobe Ad NA

York, San Francisod, é

Essa

BANKER-The Unlo Bondon and Soothe Back, Limited.

The Bank boys and "nelle, and vocalves for collection Bills of change, Larner Letters, of credit on the Bradoes and Correspondents in the East, on the Continent, in Great Britain, America and Austraits, and tracte banking bagsees of every Cancription,

J. F. VAN EEKS.

Hongkong, Boyt. 29, 1817

THE baskness of the above Bank in THE

conducted by the HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING COR PORATION. Rales may be obtained on THE application. T

INTEREST, deposits is allowed, on

the minimum monthly balances at 3)

(338 PER CENT per annum. Depositors

METALS

all kinds, especially for shipbuilding engineering worka Targest and assorted stock in the Colony,

state corresponding to the enatrast de BURSCRIBED CATERAZ... Francs 45,000,000 wcription, but also against documents Pam Ur CarTAX £2,500,000 12/0 representing the goods, even thongh, (3/3 of the Capital, L. Franes 15,000,000 through sea petils, they were no longer

abscribed by the Government of best

the Chinese Republic), S4, Chairman of the Board

of DirectorÁNDEZ BERTHELOT General Manager. J. PERROTTE.

in a state corresponding to the contract description.

The Erst point fails because there is no evidence to show that the word "do

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER

THE Steamshin

· BEN RINNIS,' -

· HEAD ́ur FICK : -74, Ras Builty Lazars, PARIS. BRANCHEST

*PEKING

SHANGHAI,

TENTSIN, HONGKONG,

GENBANKERS

·BAIGON,

* Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed in FRANCE: Société Générale pour that all Goods are being landed at their risk.

Favoriser le Développements Commerce et de l'Industrie en „France. (2

Int. the hazardous and for extra hard nor

Godowne of the Hongkong and Kowloor What and Godown Cm. DM, whoose In LONDON: London County & West

ar obtriamt?: re

and/or from the listres d livery may be Claims will he admitted after the and have Jelt the Goricens, and all Gonza, remaining undelivered after 17th just will be subject to rene

All Calma Against the Eteamer mast be presented to the Und-raigned on or before the 27th inst or they will not be re cognized.

All Joken, chafed and datasted Gonds are to ho left in this. Godowns, where they will besided on the 17th st

No Tite Tusorances has been effecta Bills of Lading will h enterslmed by

GIBB, LIVINGSTUS CO.,

minster Hank, Ltd.

In NEW YORK Redmond & Ca mercial centres of

Correspondents in the chief com

world

Telegraphic Address: CHIBANKIND,

Interest Allowed on Current Agecoun and Fixed Deposits in- Lácal, Curräneyi

in old Terous on spplic Every description of Erchange besidese transac

Special facilities for 1 LAM BQUET DE

LHONGYUNG BRANOZO

Le Queen's Bulkkingen

YOKOHAMA SPROIE

BANK, LTD.

ESARZACHED 1884,

may transfer at their option balances of ADTHORISED Carcat... Io 48,000,087.00 $100 or more to the HONGKONG AND PAID UP CAPITAL

BHANGKAI BANK. to be placed on Rexeave Fu

FIXED DEPOSIT st 4 PERCENT.

| per sintetiza..

For the Hongkong and Shangha. Banking Corporation.

N. J. STABE

Chief Manager

Eongloong Hay 14 1916.

** -42,000,000,00 23,100,000,00

HEAD OFFICE-YOKOHAMA

BEANCHES AND Lam

BOSWAY ME

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OF

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THE CHARTERED BANK

INDIA, AUSTRALIA & CHINA.

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LONDON

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2,000,000 Lyons

BEANIKA £1,200,000 FNAGASAKT

FOREIGN EKOHANGE Bad Godea) Banking business transacted. "

CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and

SINGON & CO. FIXED DEPOSITH socefred for 1 yer

(ESTABLISHED A.D). 1880).

HING LUNG ST.

PHOAX 516.

EUROPEAN AGENCY.

HO ESALE Indente promptly Warecated Alr lowest CARS 2004

for all British and Continental goods. including stro

Books and Station Boots, Ehose and Leather, Chemicals and Druggista Sundries, China, Earthenware and Glassware, Cycles, Motor Cars and Accessories

Drapery, Milnery and Piece Goods, Fancy Goods and Perfumery,

· Hardwarn, Machidade und Metaly,” Jawellery, Plate god Watchin, Photographic and Optical Goods, Provisions and Oilmen's Stores;

Trilde Diasounds alibtied.

or shorter periodi af rates which will be quoted on application

AT. U, DOWNING,

Hongkong, May 7, 1917,

· THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED,

athorised Capital Subscribed

Paid-up-

Reserve Fund

BANKEES.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

£1,300,000 1,125,000

€36,000

Tupisce

TOKEO

THEGIAU

·Interest allowed on Carterri Accounti Deposits received for fixed perioda at rates to be obtained in application.

FISHI OKO, Managers

Hougtong, II March, 19ÍK,”

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AND

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