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MARRIAGE.

MARWICK HUME - At

George's Jesmond, on the 17th February, by the Rev. Canon Boot, William Ernest Marwick, of Corbridge, to Margaret Gladys, elder daughter of Mrs.

THE CHINA MAIL.

that might prejudice one or other of the parties.

The Shanghai rate: SHANGHAI. payers (with votes) in their wisdom have decided not to allow Chinese repre- sentatives on the Municipal Coun. cil thers. Our special telegram

SMCT.

REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD-TIME RESIDENT.

PASSENGER ON P. 4 0. STEAMER.

FRIDAY, APRIL“

last evening gave no hint of the Mr. Charles F. Wilkissen `of the argument or reasons that decided farm of Wilkinson & Grist, Solicitors, them, consequently we withhold will be a passenger on the Peninsular commenta until the arrival of full & Oriental Liner "Khiva", which reports by mail. We may be bure leaves Hongkong on or abut the 17th however, that this is not the end of of this month bound for London, via Singapore, Colmbo, Bombay, and the story..

Some obliging reader of Marseilles. Mr. Wilkinson will re considerable main in England for the Chino Mail has sent time, but expects to return and re us in a cutting describesume his law practice before the end ing an alleged incident on the of the year. NY.K. steamer Tango Maru, between Japan and Australia. It kong's oldest legal practitioners. He This gentleman is one of Hong- deals sensationally with the alleged came to the Colony in the year 1888, conduct of a second-class steward thirty-four years ago, as a passenger toward a passenger's female child.

on what was then termed a palatial aged eleven. We do not reproduce steamer, of the P. & O. Company, it, for several reasons. It is need-named the "Nepaul commanded by lessly dirty, has the marks of strong | Captain Alton. The "Nepaul” was, anti-Japanese prejudice, and does in after years, wrecked near Mar- NEW YORK DRY DOCKING THE WHITE BADGE OF

not hang together as a quite trueseilles. story should.

Mr. Wilkinson came to Hong kong upon the recommendation

Miss WARDA HOWARD [See note in Adversaria.}

FEAT.

OESE DRY DOCK CO.:A.

FACILITIES.

What shipping men concede: to` be

TEMPERANCE.

*1920.

SHIPPING BOARD PASSENGER LINES.

DESCRIPTIONS OF PACIFIC TYRES.

In the Pacific Marina Review for the month of February, full data and descriptive matter, relating to the combination passenger and cargo steamers being supplied by the.. Shipping Board for the Pacific trade, are given.

"

There are two types being built, or reconverted from transports, in the American shipbuilding yards, the 535-Foot Type and the 502-Foot. Type. Nineteen are being converted to passenger chips, and seven new vessels of the 502-Foot Type are now under construction by the New York Ship Building Company.

THE 535-FOOT TYPE.

These vessels are of the dusk deck type. They are 535 feet long over- all, with length between perpendi culars of 518 feet; beam 'molded 72 feet; depth to shade deck 50 feet, drafs 30 feet, freeboard 194 feet. Passenger accommodations are pro-

AMERIČAN PASSENGERS CANDELvided for 257 first-class passengers

BOOKINGS ON ? PROHIBITION " SHIPS.

An interesting claim is being put

None of the conveniences, of. Art is long and life modern steamship travelling WHE ** ŞQUEBZE." is brief and there then available, the staterooms being are thousands of small, and lighted only with candies, worthwhile ways in which to which, under the ironclad P. & O.

and 300 third class passengers. - The spend one's time, yet being af regulations of those times, had to be

first class accommodations are devised newspaperman one is compelled to extinguished at IT pm. There was

with a view to great comfort, the read other newspapermen's output.no smoking room, and the male

state rooms being, arranged in pairs with communicating bath, and being Of cur many crimes we do not passengers were accommodated, for the world's record in dry docking dream of pleading not guilty, but purposes of indulgence in the achievement was accomplished the we do pas that in with all enne weed, in a tent rigged up amid week of December 27, when the forward by British shipping interess provided with all modern com ships near the engines Passengers 30.000-ton Roating dry dock at the that the American passenger services ventences which go to making sea

travel luxurious.. fidence as a plea in uitigation of were trans shipped for China ports at Morse Dry Dock and Repair Com-will fail on accoum of the ships being guilt. We have just been reading Bombay, and the outward bound pany, of Brooklyn, NY., lifted the day."

The cargo holds have a capacity It is a fact that the great of 11,000 tons of dead-weight cargo. an article on Chinese "squeeze

journey consumed 7 weeks. The United States Shopping Board steamer majority who travel first-class do not There are five hatches, cach 19 by. by one who is quite evidently steamers at that period included" Minnesou," the world's greatestaythe withe badge of temperance.

30 feet; two batches 19 by 24 feet unconsciona of, the fact that Gibraltar and Malta in their ports of deadweight carrier, with a cargo capa-

squeeze is not confined to the

called.

city of 30,000 tons, excluding her The idle, long days spent en voyage, and two hatches 19 by 18 feet. affording an abundance of entrances Chinese. He speaks of it as

reserve bunker space.

and the salty ozone, are apt to arouse for the quick turnover of cargo. corroding evit on the (Chinese

The successful lifting of the "Min-the dormant alcoholic thirst.

The vessels will be, ail-burners. body palitie Apparently op in of Mr. James Russell, to enter nesota" gave that ship the signal hon- Shanghai,they have not as yet got the practice of Mr. D.E. Caldwell as four of being the largest ship that has

Upon the announcement of proibi-with a fuel tank capacity for 3200 an M.G. ist but it must not be his partner. After the death of Mr.as yet tested the strength of a Boating ping Board, there were sixteen can-giving a shalt horse power of 12,000, tion on passenger ships by the Ship-tons, and will be turbine driven, assumed on that account that they Caldwell, Mr. Grist, joined the frm dry dock. All sections of the six-sec-cellations of passengers out of forty which drives the hull at seventeen do not need one. The omission is and, three years later, was taked into tron dock of the Morse Company were bookings on a Munson Liner bound knots and gives a steaming radius of merely due to the fact that they partnership by Mr. Wilkinson under commissioned in the work of raising for South America.

11,700 miles. This steaming radius have. Do Chbus Mait up there. the firm name of Wilkinson & Grist, "Squeeze" isn't even confined to The legal code, states. Mr. Wilkin her halk in the air, and any 25 in this connection, it is remarked is ample for a round trip from San

Francisco er Seattle to Yokohama, Europeans in the Far East, or itson, has been much improved durino minutes of actual pumping time was that a law known as the Edmonds and renan,-either direct, or by way. consuined. The rapidity with which Bill, has recently been introduced in of Honolulu, and is sufficient for the might be suggested that they have his period of residence here, the eode been infected by the Chinese. It used in former years having been the lift was made is in itself a dis- the House of Representatives

round trip to Hongkong or the Straits known at Hure. We have never based on The Common Law

Be it enacted, etc.. that Title II. Settlements with a partial replenish- Of twin-screw, type and 630 feet of the Act entitled National Prohibi-ment of oil fuel at either Manila or had a war without it. It is still Procedure Act.

From the time of his arrival, in long, the Minesota," sister ship of tion Act is hereby amended by the Honolulu. going on. To bear some people 1886, Mr. Wilkinson has found the "Dakna," was built in America addition of a new section as follows talk, to read some people's writing, one would think that our own pub-great demand in the Colony for legal primarily as a cargo carrief for Pre-Section 40. That nothing in this

There vessels are intended mainly sident James J. Hill, of the Great act shall prevent the carrying as freight carriers, with limited lic men had all been honest since His voyage homeward, on the Northern Railway. She now has ac liquors on passenger vessels of either accommodations for firstclass Pas- the long-ago dara ben Francis"Khiva, will be luxurious, as com commodation for 2,400 steerage pas American or foreign registry: sengers. They are of the well-known Bacon, Lord Verulam was aned pared to his first trip out, the sengers and imprisoned. Those intensely Khiva being fitted with all modern

vided, that within the three-mile doublewell deck type; length between The propelling machinery of the limit of the shore of the United perpendiculars 502 feet, beam molded and impeccably moral ducks at conveniences in the way of baths Minnes consists of two sets of States, no liquor shall be sold, and sa feet, depth molded 42 feet, draft Shanghai seeru ic have barred and lavatories, has an excellent cuisine, three-cylinder vertical triple-expansion all containers properly sealed and 31.3/4 feet; freeboard is 10-1/4-feet. Chinese representation on the handsomely furnished lounges, engines of the direct-acting surface locked under such regulations as re-The dead-weight cargo capacity is Council for fear that the Chinese comfortable statercoms and condensing type, with cylinders 20in.quired by the commissioner of in- 12,000 tons Councillors would squeeze." Yet is certain that Mr. Wilkinson & and 8910 in diameter Her

20 temal revenue.

1. A very lavish equipment for the they hare elected others. The will not herb ab crawländer att boilers, 15h number 78 cbr the

handling of cargo has been provided. The soulful look- to do his super, at harid la 86. Nicasse uteritübe type and were

+34 winches and a similar number of THEATRICAL ing young lady The "Kala plify besked bulk by Stirling and Co. These were

whose face shows passengers, and will carry constructed for a steam pressure of dry docking facilities, second to none in pairs on ten cargo masts, being cargo booms, arranged singly and in the world, and a distinctive advan-installed.

services.

tinctive record.

to exist, but the officers continue to live in their housee and food the SChinese public with the assistance

of Japan and the Allies. The bi nese people should take cognisance or this fact and banish these lists through a veil of printer's ink in and 70 second class: She of 901250 lb. per square inch. and fools from their territory.a neighbouring column is Mietgross tona burden and has a speed Last, and far from least, they soon in Hongkong with Mr. Fey-Captain Potter.

Warta Howard, who will appear of 16 knots. She is commanded by Hame, of Jesmond, and the late nounce exterritoriality, submitting Mr. Robert F. Hume, of Hong-Russian residents in China to neids Denniston's up-to-date com- Chinese laws. It is only natural pany of stage players. Mr. Van- that other foreign

Triends of Khan Morgan and Miss Howard are China, who are far from being described as tip-toppers in the willing to concede any considerable bunch of press notices shown to us. part of these things, should hastea Mr. Denniston was out here. with.

kong.

The China Mail.

"THUTE,' JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE."

BROXONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1990.

CHINA'S TEMPTATION.

Powers,

to warn China that this is a trap, the Frawley folk before he collected.

these stars. He has certainly

LOCAL IND GENERAL

To-day's dollar is worth 4s. 93d.

Mr. J. W. Graham acts as Chief

. THE 502 FOOT TYPE,

all deceitful. and that it would be found some chicken in the dainty manager of the Hongkong and record followed close the, lifting of ship. Thus with two yessels, one perishables. The passenger accom-

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ruin to her to listen to it.

The real position is this, that Wards. The Adversarian is having Whampoa Dock Company during whether the Bolsheviks are honest his hair cut, and borrowing à pair the absence of Mr. R.M. Dyer. or dishonest in this matter, the of spats, hopefully. Chinese will not be allowed to

Our confiding conten- Sports in connection with St. accept. Why should we be mealy-

temporary the London Joseph's College, take place to-morrow and China Express men- at te Race Course at noon. There Chine must be greatly tempted. mouthed about it? Why attempt

GROW. tions that In the long, long history of her to maintain the hollow pretence of

several will be an event for past pupils-post .disgraceful Treatment by the civil an independant and

residents and ex-resi- fent les integral ized and **civilizing

China? China will do only what dents of the Far East have now

Mr. James Walker, retiring offer made to her, in return for her to do. Or, as on previous occaseriting the growth of pearls in manager of the Dairy Farm, lee and there has been no such tempting the Powers, being Powers, allow forward with statements de- little, as that recently made by the sions, China will be made to pay their possession. It ingenuously Cold Storage Company, was yester

adds:

This evidence seems, day presented with two silver vases de facto government of Russia, for it. This may be politically which happens to be, whether re- right and expedient. We meddle therefore, to prove that reasla duty the Chinese office staff. .cognized or not, Bulshevik. not with such matters, realizing the actually increase... both in size

The CS.P. Hon. Mr E. D. C. and number. Imperial Russia was perhaps as hopelessness of resistance. But re

It proves only

Wolfe, zave a tea dansant at the mean toward Chida as any of the will suffer no prating of right, of what has been well known for a Powers, and if democratic Russia justice, of morality, of civilization, very long time, that Bamins and new police gymnasium yesterday really means the complete and of Christianity, on the part of those Carlyle were right, and that the alterns or which was largely attended. Several interesting kinema films were handsome atonement indicated in who support the systera. On the Psalmist's belief in the preponder shown. the Soviet nate to Peking, it is a present showing, on such evidence ance of leg-pullers is well basen. wonderful testimony to the moral character of Bolshevik ideals. We have no right whatever to say yet that it is not sincere. Time alone an show that. At present we have to consider it in the light of a **firm offer," ard. in that light to eonsider it.

It comes to the Chinese as a *** fraternal '' greeting. It speaks of the renunciation of acquired ter ritories which means the return of stolen goods. It denounces secret treaties. The proffered re- munciation and restoration to China includes all that which was takez haway by the government of the Tear The Soviet government restores to the Chinese people with

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!

Geraldine Farrer in the picture now on at the Coroner, has about half a dozen changes of dress, show Ing the latest fashions, and the womenfcly say that this alone makes the picture worth seeing.

Centrifugal pumps circulating 7,000 age as pertains the maintenance of There are five batches of dimen- gallons of water per hour through the repair equipment-to keep in commissions 173 feet by 25 feet, one 18 by Ship's tendenser, are driven by tension a-prosperous American merchant 15 feet, one 173 by 15 feet, and two horse-power motors. The ship's marine. It proves conclusively the 19 by 20 feet, all of which are served decks are supported by box-shaped claim of the Morse Company that by at least two cargo booms and girders, dispensing with the portable large steamers can be lifted in from winches Each of the five large pillars, which is the usual practice. 20 minutes to a half-hour, hatches is served by four booms and The Minnesota and the "Dakota "

When the sailing ship "Älejan-winches. These vessels wir be pro- were the first yessels fitted in this drina" came to the Morse yards re- vided with refrigerated cargo space. manner and so classed by Lloyd's, certly she occupied the big dry dock thus meeting a long felt want for im

The establishment of such a notable simultaneously with a modern steam-porters of food products, and other another Shipping Board steamer, bespeaking, by her very looks, the modations on this type will equal, in "Easter Cross,"

in 11 minutes vanished cuys at powerful sailing every way, those on the larger type, actual pumping time, and the Americait, pirates and treasures, and the but the number of first-class passen. can Army transport Powhatan in other communicating an impression of gers is limited, on the 502-Foot Type,

to seventy-six.. 22 minutes. The speed attending the modern ocean waves, the big dry dock raising of the

This type is fitted with eil burning Eastern Cross is was as a stage-set to show the ex-

Scotch bollers and reciprocating remarkable in view of the fact that tremes of ocean navigation.

engines, with a shaft horse power of But 19 feet of docking space re- 7030, which will drive the bull at a only three sections of the six-section dock were used, and that the East-mained unoccupied as repairers work-sea, speed of fourteen knots per ern Cross held 4,000 tons of gene on the Alejandrina" and the hour. The fuel oil tanks have a eral merchandise when she was lifted steamship sharing the same dock capacity of 3500 tons, which gives Only four sections of the deck were This was a little less roant than exist the vessel a steaming radius of 15,000 required to raise the "Powhatan," ed on another occasion when the miles, amply sufficient for a round weighing 12,000 rens.

United States Shipping Board steamtrip from the West Coast of the Exactly 11 minutes after the pumps en "Lake Farison" and the s.s. United States to New Zealand, Aus- stated the operation of getting the

Eastern Cross

Yarmouth," Arst steamship of the tralia, Straits Settlements, or Hong- out of water, work- Black Star Line Corporation, cori konk, or any point on the west coast

The Chairman of the Shipping en were busy erecting riggings and Fosed entirely of American negroes, of South America,, without re-fueling. preparing to dismantle her broken Occupied the dock at one and the same rudder parts. -

Board says, lo connec lon with these This quick and most efficient," Arst The massiveness of the dock is not ships. In the place of the United aid treatment adrainistered to this altogether responsible for its sectionalment of passenger service from Un-

States Shipping Board for the develop ship was given in a time of urgent features. Built of six sections, rwoed States portsine zeeds of the need, for the vessel had sustained the or more sections may hold a steamer Pacific Coast will play a prominent broken rudden when more than two while remaining sections are sub part. The Board fully appreciates days out at sea, with her general nier merged, ready to lift another ship. the primary importance of increased chandise cargo, bound for European Repair work is lacilitated. Steamers passenger facilities on the Pacifc." port. Her rudder rendered useless, come and go quickly. What was The tentative programme now under the ship was buffeted about by winds once a matter of hours and days is consideration for three passenger and seas, and she made cight com- reduced to minutes.

services from Pacific Coast ports is ploto circles in a watch of as many

as follows

re hours

"To Jagar, China and Philippines Weekly

+ nike.

as we have, the bad Bolsheviks cre the only ones who bave any right | to pose as good men, and the good

LATE MR GILFILLAN, and hencurable Allies should (if only in Chinese eyes) assume a We regret to announce the death comparatively much less worthy on Feb. 4, at Aberdeen Park, London, complexion. Rob," steal," bully, if N., of Mr. James Gilillen, who was you must, but don't sing psalms in his 82nd year. He was the elder

A Chinese youth and a woman, and preach about 1 Don't sien brother of Mr. S. Gilfillan, formerly both boat people, were this motaling der the Bolsheviks, making them of Singapore, and was himself one of charged before Mr. R. O. Hutchison,

As concerns its method of opera worse than they are, in order to the eldest employees of what was with the unlawful possession of 195

tion, the new dry dock is an exact seem better than you are. That formerly the Chartered Mercantile catties of sandalwood valued at $30.

The rigging of a fury rudder was duplicate of the older dry, dock of the smelis.

Bank of India, and more recently the them out from the bottom of the sea far as Sandy Hook after she had really equipped dock in the world

in Wanchai. They said they.“fished

instrumental in getting her back as company, which was the Brat elec Mercantile Bank of India, from which Inspector Kent: They went to catch abandoned further attempt to reach the Brst on which centrifugal pumps Every 3 week he retired over ten years ago. Mi-shrimpe, and caught sandalwood Europe, anchored of Scotland Light, were used for emptying it; and the Gilfian First went to Canton, and instead!

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-ADVERSARIA.

AN EX PARTE

The important point is

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"To Japan, China and Vladivostok ---Weekly

*To Philippines, Straits & India-

"It is the intention of the Board

successful and efficient dry dock in assignment

shortly thereafter to: Shanghai, where that the wood is quite dry your in Sandy Hook, Morse Company. Erst on which alternating current in- that these services will be main alued We have published he spent most of his service in China, Worship-150 fine each, or, in de tugs Dewitt C, Ivins" and "Anson duction motors were used, and the by the 635-Foot Type. Four of a complaint by a STATEMENT. shop tenant that so long ago as 1858. This event he fault, one month's hard labour. M. Bangs" reached her, towing her first to be equipped with an auxiliary these ves els will be required to out any compensation the Chinese

recorded in our sixtieth anniversary seemed to indicate

to Brooklyn and the yards of the draining system. In many respects maintain schedule on each service. forestry concessions, and other have since published a letter from and O. steamer "Colombo" to the contractor was charged by the P. We her cargo totalled close to 10,000 times the tonnage of any other dock in ports is now under consideration and Eastern Railway, the mining and a clear case of profiteering. We number in 1918, when he wrote an At the Magistracy this morning. Morse Dry Dock and Repair Com the aider dry dock has been the most making a total of 12 In all for Pacific

account of his first voyage in the P before Mr. N. L. Smith, & Chinese privileges which had been seized the landlord denying it, and com- Far East. Apart from his commer D with unlawfully carrying out

The ship's weight combined with the country, lifting in one year threeThe question of Pacific terminal by the Tsar's government or plaining of missions and distorcial and banking experiences, Mr.some blasting operations in Wongtors. While the new dry dock of the the same amount of time, by any Russians. It also the Boxer indemnity.

the decision upon this matter, and o renounces tions. We have made independent Gilfillan had a strong literary vein, welcheons Cap, without a permit Morse Company is capable of lifting It seems necessary to repeat the whole truth, there was no pro- time, was a constant and valued con- this work had been going on for 30,000 tons, the raising of the East enquiries, and if we have now got and, up to a comparatively recent Mr. C. Sara, who presecuted, said vessels 725 feer by length, and of

also upon the selection of operating". agents, will not be made until a mást t this a third time because it is re-fiteering. The tease was made ten ributor to the columns of this journal some time now, and the defendant crn Cross by only three sections of

careful investigation is completed. ported that in spite of our revear ago. The rent value of such for a long series of years. His con had not troubled to apply for a per the dock has amply demonstrated that nouncement of this contribution, places has certainly increased a tributions, which were both in prose mit. He had it le still being paid to the Allies ten years. The owners are the and verse, appeared generally over that was in respect to blast ship an outside hull Inspection in a permit, but all six sections can give a large steam- for the upkeep of the former in executors of the Lam Chu Hong the signature of Shanghai," the port ing operations in another place. There almost as short a space of actual Perial minister i Peking and the estate. Mr. Kuttonjee is the les he had seen and known in its early was no permit issued for blasting pumping time. former imperial conauts in China: see, and-eublets. If there is to be budding stages, and in whose welfare operations to be carried out by the

he powers gives to these officers any litigation it seems only fair and interests he always took-keen defendant.is.noithong-Ger Foctinger dock of the Morse Comedy Joak begize For sale by all refreships to the Pacific Trade

As regards expediency, this big the Tear have long staco Cebred to avoid going into further details interest.-L. & C. Express.

A fine of $50 was issued.

pany has given the sort of New York

D

BOTEL COMPLAINT IN

The first of these vessels is ex- CHILDREN.

pected to be available in May, 1920,

bowels and should receive the most vessels will be in service by the end. URING the summer months children and deliveries are anticipated there-

· sen sabject to disorders of the after so that the entire fleet of twelve

areful attention.” AF 8000 83 Buy 2 of this year. It is the present inte tural loojeness of the bowale is noticed:

hamberlain's Collo and Diarrhos Botion of the Board to place the first

"outlined above."- Chemists and Storekeepers.