INSURANCES
ALLIANZ INSURANCE COMPANY OF BERLIN.
THE
UNDERSIONED having ben Company are prepared to accept Risks against
FIRE Current Rates.
SIEMSSEN & C
1166 Hong kong, 28th Mny, 1996,
L'UNION OF PARIS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED
ratos.
429
THE Undersigned having been appointed AGENTS for the sbore Company Art prepared to accept Risks against Fire at curren
SIEMSSEN & CO. Hongkong, at January, 1904.
NORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN A TILE INSURANCE COMPANY.
TOTAL FUNDS AT 3167 Dacama, 1904. e17,161,299.
I. AUTHORISED Capital... £3,000,000
SUBSCRIBED CAPITAL
l'aid-up CAPITAL
II. FIBE FUNDU...........................
2.750,000
687,500 00 3,003,288 329
The Undersigned, AGENTS for the show. Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO., Agents. Hongkong, 30th Juno, 1905.
1567
AACHEN AND MUNICH FIRE IN BURANCE CO.
OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
AMERICAN ASIATIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,
FROM NEW YORK VIA SUEZ CANAL
THE Banship
INDRANI,"
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20ca, 196
BRITISH NAVAL SUPREMACY.
+
SOME COMPARISONS.
The Nasal Correspondent of the Tribune, writing on May 14th says: On Wednesday last Sir Edward Grey told the Horse of Commous dis *retative and comparativa superney of the Flort bad neror at any tim been greater than it is at this mat, and that such supremacy is to-day as sure as it ever
in our Jastery. Thik is
is & clear statement, with atau of doubt or hesita
itk
Captain W. Gray Williams having arrival from tion about it, as we may be sure that in making thenlere Ports, Cousinews of Cargo are here it the Foreign Secretary, was only voice the
voicing informed that their Goods are being innded atting opinion of his narul
is proved by the following their rizk into the tiedowns of the Hongkong aud Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company.G
figures, showing Limit-d, at Kewioon, and stored at Consignees the Bro Great Powers in modern, Frei-elus comparative strength of risk and expense
battleships and armoured croisers, the type ot which, in fact, must depend the outcome of a war between two great susal Powers.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Gooda remaining undelivered after the 20th iust. will be subject te rent.
All broken, eisfed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Golowas, where they will be examined on the 20th inst,, at 139 P.M.
No Fire Insuranen lan been effected, Hill of Lading will be countersigned by
SHEWAN, TOMÈS & Co..
General Agents, Hongkong, 14th Jane, 1904.
1155
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STIHE P. & G. S, N. Co.'s Steamer
T
"DELTA,"
FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND
STRAITS.
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SAN FRANŬISCO MEMORANDA.
beat collated by a contemporary:
The following serapa of informalin have
All fires are ordered to be extinguished at sunxat
Eti
Some of the Oakland newsboys have made i a day selling papera. The lighting of a cigarette in the parks sub- jets the offender to arrost.
The French, Italian, and Danish Cousals,
supposed to be missing, are safo.
au face in drinking water.
A maa how boen shat for washing his bands
lona of
Abont and by their terrible
is on foot to ask for a Governmon!
£20,000 gun for rebuilding.
twenty six pers
raen hava bion driven
Four bundead cases of smallpox have been discovered and the patients isolated.
to
In compiling the table I have included battle-
The Japanese Red Cross Society has decided
a hospital ship to San Francisco. compatch a 1999, and foreign ships of corresponding data:mittees are to be disarmed and shot if they ships laid down under, or since, the N D. Act of
Members of the Citizens Protective Cont and resou od cruisers of the last ten years ronist. Under “built " I have include ships which have Tasands of delicately-constituted men and nadergous their trials, or will very shortly do
women are suffering from profound mental so, Under "bailding ships to be laid down
depression this year are included. Of the tour armour- ed" ships of our 1987 estimates, two have been leased ne battleships and two on craisers. Of the six French bufthships just auctioned all uro included, though it remains to be sewn whether more fast three will be laid down this yukr. On this estimate the figures are us follows:-
Battleships Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Built vossal ara bereby informed ibst their goods sro | Building....... being lauded and placed at their risk in the Armoured,
Cruisers: Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and flodown Company's todowne at Kowloon where each Built consignment will be sorted out mark by mark, delivery can be obtained as soon as the gends are landed.
This Vossel brings on Cargo:--
THE Undersigned, having been appoit tal AGENTS for the above Corapany, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE
Carrant Bates.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
Agents. Hongkong, 21st April, 1897.
HONGKONG
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From London, Ke,, ex 88 Britannin, From Persian Gulf, ex B. I. S. N. &
B. & P. S. X. C's Steamers, Optional goods will be lander hore mules instructions are given to the contrary before
hours.
Goods not cleared by the With Jane, at 4r.m., will be subject to reut,
No Fire Insurunen will be effected by ms in any rase whatever.
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Building...
United
therr nightdresses had afterwards to dregs in Many women who fled from their bemor în
men's clothes.
The Food Committen is overwhelund with
foods are causing trouble. contributions of provisions, and the perishablo
All the British mails which have arrived at San Francisc since the earthquake lava boru Jap forwarded with little or pod slug.
Mea
firral
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CREDIT less 5 per cont
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Our new patent Low Set Express Cushings can be fitted to any Hillised Pablo, making it for
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The first order for jewellery received in New York from San Francisco wai for 160 wedding
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10 rings to be soat se quickly of a glat in the
There is already a labour market. Labourers are making prepara 21em to go to the city in large numbers.
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Now, from the above figures the following facta stand out clear: ---
(1) In ships comploted we are, considering fhe greater power of our ships, fully on a par with a combination of the three next greatest
Baral Powers in the world,
(2) If we assume the whole completed, wo
daul, and with our ally Jagay on a par with any conceivable three-Power standard.
VESNELA, UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Damaged packages must be left in the Go-alone are well sload of any two-Power Wan downs for examination by the Courigues's and the Company's representative at an appointed "Hour. All claims must be presented within ten days of the stomer's arrival bere after which No claims date they cannot be recognised. will be admitted, after the goods have left the Godowns,
E. A. HEWETT,
Superintendent. Hougkbur. th June, 1906.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP COMPANY,
LIMITED AND
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CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA - TION COMPANY, LIMITEV.
NONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer
PATROCLUS,"
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As regards ships in the building" category our inferiority is far more apparent than real We build infinitely more rapidly than abroad Our ships actasily building will be out of land long before the foreign ones, and so we can afford to wait their test before embarking on * Lew programme. Of our six battluskipe, the Breadinght und Hibernia will hoist the pen- aut before the year is out, and the Lord Melana sud Agracanoa will be ready probably in eight months. Of the French too, six
launched.
At the time of the earthquake the Stale Medical Congress was being bold in San Francisco, nad since then the delegates have been caring for the refugees,
could
TIN GAMBLERS,
DO IN PRICES.
Standard, the determined onslaught made upon the En fearket by extensive forward sales from certain quarters--whore the view was evidently beld that the tremendous rise which bad bonn in progress for months past bad gous far enough Lo justify a renotions and the effect of accelerating a huge amount of liquidation, as may be inferred from the day a turnover of over 1,20 tons. Another inducement to that affect was the fact that Eastern currancios were dropped to £199 ci.f, although no important mtes took place in either Singapore or mang At the same line, it is obrious that further inquiries from legitimate sources were with drawn for the time being. A
American buyers hid strictly aloof singa
The yestarity.
are not yet laid down, and four are not yet has box thas been entirely at in the hands
Of the German six, 958 WAN ly launched last September, and another two mouths later, two are not yet launched, two are only projectal. Of the Gaiter States sight, one was launched in April, 0, two in August, cue in September, and in Decam ber One was commened last year, two are still to be laid down.
are hereby potited that the Carge is being ischarged into Craft, aud or landed at the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Id., where in both
la armoured, cruiser construction we are MARIN will lie at Consiguses risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Craft or Godowactically building to a three-Power standard. Four twelve, four launched have been well 15th ingl.
jurer two
years in bund. One, the Minotaur,
of professionals, while the merits of the position are for the moment not further looked into. Sensational downward zuordents have resulted, attention being chiefly centred in forward metal, which, although showing at one time a consider- able rally, dropped as low as 88 10%. While is undoubtedly healthier the speculative position after the beary liquidation, which has affordel great relief to thee who are left on the short side of the market, faturs movements depend largely upon the attitude-of-Chinese intereste
Viawa of Chins and Manila. Work ander kill be landed, unless polico take the water three weeks benco with all ber in the Best. The shipmeuta for the first half
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ON SALE
: 1527
FOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG
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has been gives prior to steamer's arrival.
All broken, elufað, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will before reached at time of launch. Thres will for the month ara, nevertheless, expected to te examined at 11 4.DC, on the 21st inst.
side armour in place, a point in completion never of May happened to be hoary, but the out-goings
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods rarunning undelivered after the 2nd inst will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 24th inst., or they will not be recognised, No Fire Insurance has been effected
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
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follon ja a few months, and three will be com-light, owing to the reduced outpat. pisted in Pus. Of the French fout, one was before 18, ons not till 19. Of the German faunched last August, two will not be rady
three, two are not yet launched, and one not yet laid down. U the United States, two arc brat other four, two are not yet laid down. In short, one rewose from protected ships, and of the is sple of alarmists both inside the Horwo Commons and outside of it, we may well orar with complacency, not only our actual position (as it stands at this moment, but also as it will tand at any time within the next two or sven thro
Sear
-LC.C. AND LITERATURE.
"Romola.
Thus the Globe:-It was bound to comb. The L.C.C. as a steamboat company was good: as a critic of literature it is unsurpassed. The Education Committes baye just formed an it appear, es Iodex Expurgatorius, and on books su tad for children, Hepatia,
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andi Burts altogether. Peter Simple Byron's works must be bordariaal before it is fit for the Particulars of considerable interest of some
iniud; white as substitutes for the above, of the wow construction are now available. The which the ignorant have manket as master-
young exact particulers of the two American ships have pieces, appar "Little Women," Miss Edge not been published, but that they will follow worth's Meral Tales," and son body's "What the type of the Dreadanight, as 4]
alsonated by Katy Did. Like the lady who 'coxüsented Aamir alomon when firing siden before than her son's Pickwick ou the ground of its Naral Committee of the
of Reprezenta tivos, may be taken as pretty certain. The samvulgarity, the i.C.C. tax determined to protect Sethuse for who it is responsible from all sorts infance will gaids in the four Japanese contaminalku. two of which are laid down, and will be But consistency is a good thing, and the
aled Solunin and Ar, and two projected. The six Preach to be laid down are to LC.C. luce not yet cleansed the Aura stable 1,000 tour, with 22,50 1.1.p. and a speed of 19 of English Parance. The Bible contains not
a for
indelicate remarks. Shuknapeare is a wil. knots. They will bare four 12-inch guns in line
ful sinar: of keel, and twelve guas of 9.4 inch mounted Lost which are storioady corrupting. In while there are parts of Paradiso sa six turrets three on each beam. They can Macauley, whe for som obsnare reason is still
eng
the broadside, four 12-inch age with, on
allu
with two B-inch and four 9.4 inch
thus
bo of
and six 24-inch, and, either ahead or astern, in the les ara unatimea remarks Miz
thers red,
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astriotism which cannot
The new ferman ships are to replace the old the Union Jack in schools; we tak it that his that has just refused Tayern And Sachsen. They will, we are told. be extinction is but
multer of time. Both
trae to life in r treating mors of prinesses tha of civic functionaries, theirs, too, is caraed doom.
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orrect, and if it is another proof of but I
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idea is approved
have it on sound authority.
that
eight 11-inch and twelve 7.7-inch wore the proposed ormazioni.
I
a well-
Unfortu
On the other hand, there is no mention of Freskind Finance, which should appeal with The new cruiser, we are also told, is to be 14.76) a distinctly personal touch to the Councillors; tons, with eight 11-inch and some 6-inch guns.bat the selections are at least innocuous. We
she will be a battleship in which a certain
wish we would call them realable amount of protection has been sacrificed so that nately life itself is monstrously indelicate ora more dišplicement can be given to speed.
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