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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
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#BRISGAVIA,” Girstenbrau, having arrived, Conelgason of Carge are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unler notice to the contrary be given before To-DAY, Auy Cargo impeding hor discharge will bo lauded at Consignees risk into the hazardous and/or extra lizardona Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloos Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, and stored at Consignees risk and expense.
All Claims must be presented within ten day of the steamer's arrival here, after which data they cannot be recognised.
No Claims will be aditied after the Goale have left the Godowas, and all (icos remaining undelivered after the 1st May, will be subject
to'roat,
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th ist., at 3 P.M.
No Fire Insurance has bean efforted.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,
Hongkong Oca.
Blangkong, 24th April, 1903.
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NOTICE.
“ONSIGNEES of Cargo from Londen er ..." Meino" From Lyrex Mudac,"
STEAMER FORFEIT TO THE CROWN.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, APEIL 3020, 1868)
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are against contract opolis, traže, but with I: proper accommodation. sad salequate and-
Arrangementa.there is nothing intrinsenlly Immoral in murging soolle passengers to a THE MAOBI XING CASE
foreign land. That there was immorality in the The hemont dano cannot be gainsald, and the The N.C. Daily News of April 24th says Raisin government passibly feels that by During the time the Supreme Court has been crity of supervision on the part of its officials presided over by Bir Havilland de Sanemares soveral cases of unusual interest and importance at Vladivostok it is stopped from interference have bean beard, but nons, we hink, bas erafted in the proceedings against the Maori King In an interest so widespread and general as that the past many vessels have left Bhanghal in which judgement was given yesterday. Fiva under the British Bag which had no right to do so, and their owners, for want of Governments those of Great Britain, Chinsuffelent proof, have escaped the consequences Amerion, Buesia and Mexico-bave been directly of their wronging. This may make it seem or indirectly concerned. In the exploits of Maori King, and whatever hardship the Russian all the harder of the present defendants, bat it owners have suffered, we believe that the does not alter the fact that, so long as the forfeiture of the vessel to the Crown will fundamental principle that British abiga mast generally be regarded as the only possible bo British owned in recognized, our shipping expiation of her miedeeds. These of our we are among the most easily complied with readers who have followed the coursy of in the world. The contention that the the account provisions of the Merchant Shipping Acts the action, and have read wo published some weeks ago of the rassel's should from time to time be published by voyage to Madagascar in company with advertisement, is, of course, absurd; the same the Baltic Flost, will appreciate the state ples might be urged in respect of every ment that the Maori King has had a career Provision on the Statute book, but it would not far more oventful than that which usually falls be regarded as an equitable defence in the ease of to the lot of a steamer in the prosaic days of ze who committed a murder, or embezzled his the Twentieth Century. For the present, it is employers' money. From the outset it scemod to as that the altack on the officials in charge only with her history since she became the
of the British registry must fail for the simple property of Glusburg and Co. that we are
resson that no-one who signed the prescribed concerned.
declaration of ownership could fail to notios its provisions. The decision of the learned Judge yesterday should have the +ffect of preslading any bat qualif British ships from appearing on the Register in fature, and thus should Provost a recurrence of incidents no disocedit. able to the gas those which occurred on board the Maori King on her voyage to Mexico last year. "
THE PANAMA CANAL,
COUNT TOLSTOYIS JUBILEE.
I VIRULENT AFILOK. The Veitob, one of the most prominent organs of the Union of the Russian People, publishes the following comments on the op preaching celebration of Count Len Tolstoy's 80th birthday
"Anniversarios are usually celebrated la
the case of persons who hava distinguished themiol vee by any ramarkable serviceLab us inquies into the nature of the services rendered to Russia by Lo Tality services which, sonord. ing to the shamel so articles, of the Rot periodicals, are to b fêted not only by the entire Rassing people, but by the whole world, Tolstoy has cortatuly bien of immense service- not to Rusin or Russians, but to Jews and the rest of the Liberal soum.
If the Duma participates in the infamous celebration of which we hear it will be enamit. ting the greatest possible orinze against Russia and ell God-fearing Russians. The address which is to be presented to Tolstoy will doubt. less bear millions of vigastures-thom of the accursed and bowardly Jews, of whom there are seven millions in Rassis, and of the miserable intellectuals, and the remainder of the Liberal rabble, whose heads have been fucoed by Tolstoy.
Bat neither Duma nr Holy Syned should demean itself by celebrating the anniversary of this in pions sca adre, who has done more barm to Russia thin all the brigands of the past together."
RUSSIAN UNIVERSITY LIFE.
in connection with the above Steamer are hereby British Registry in Shanghai in the name at made it clear that his heart was never in the serpstresss. when there are willing workers in
informed that their Goods, with the exception of Opium, Tresence and Valuables, are being landed and stored at their risk into the bazardous nud/or extra hazardous Cedowns of the Hongkong sad Kowloon Wharf and Go down Co., Ltd., at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on anlees intimation is received from the Consigases before NOON, TO-DAY, requesting it to be
landed here.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining msisimed after MONDAY, the 4th May, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in to me on or befors the 4th May, or they will not be recognised:
All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 4th May, at 3 P.M..
No Fire Insurance has been affected.
J. MILLET,
Agent.
Hongkong, 27th April, 1998,
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She was purchased by this whose headquarters are at St. Petersburg in 1004, renamed the Esperance, and trans- ferred to the French dag. As & supply vessel she sccompanied that portion of Ad miral Rozhdestvensky's feet that made its way out round the Caps, and after an event- ful voyage, in the course of which there were several breakdowns in bor refrigerating and propelling machinery he was eventually brought to Shangbai for repiiri. Hur oween then decided to sell her, and with this object in view she was chartered to an Australian firm, ous of the conditions of oharter bolag that she should be registered at a British Yosol. This was accomplisted by registering her at the J. M. Bow, an employee of the owners, who signed as owner of sirty-four sixty-fourths, WEerato, as hea since been admitted, he bed Be interest in her whatsoever. A diepate with the obarterers led to the owners regaining possession of the ship, and then followed the transaction which led to the recent proceedings The Maori King was chartered to Messrs. S Zimmerman and Co., an American Srm of which a good deal bas set heard in the Courts of Shanghai, and after being fitted up with banker, she proceeded to Vladivostok. Thors she shipped 921 Manokurlan coolies and 217 Rassinus, for works on a railway in Mexico. There appears to be little doubt that the coolies wore descived as to their destination, their contrasts stating it to be Hong. kong, and when they discovered that they
bound for Mexico waccession of disturbances on board one of which had a fatal issue This incident of this voyage are the blackest page in the vessel's history, and they aroused a storm of indignation on the Pacific Coast. Do the ship's return to Shanghai Board of sirensstandes attending the daquiry into the
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The St. Petersburg. Press is devoting on siderable attention to the expedients adopted by poor University students in order to avour the means of existence while completing their education. An indigent mndergraduate of Mscow University has offered to fit the cellars Mr. John F.Stevens has dispelled part of the and the following notice has been posted up in of Loussholders with the summer supplies of ice,
Panama Canal enterprise last year. He basWhy bestow your ton kopik pieces on outside mvatory... surrounding his abandonment of the
the corridor of Tomsk Duiversity. "Comrades,
work. To him was simply an engineering plenty at the University and the teebnical exercise, interesting from its difficulty, but of school, who can sew decent y if not artistically, no practical value. All the huge cast in money Bing obliged to gain a livelihood, and being and labor, the bear breaking toil, the sickass desirous of showing my poor fellow-silents and death, were thrown away, lusted of how they can benefit by the reass of comrede Sailing inspiration in the thought that he was ship and solidarity among their fellows, I linking his name with a splendid achievement hereby offer my services as a comptress. I can he was weighed down by the belief that he was
certainly more consciention:ly.” The list of identifying himself with a gigantic failure. Now as well as may ordinary work woman, and wonder he turned tall and ran,
charges is attaabad.
Mr. Stevous has undertaken to prove by figures that the escal never can be worth its cost to the Voited States, Baanoially or commercially.
Bat that is a minor matter. The intereating part of Mr. Steven's jeremind is his explanation of the reasons why the can can be of no material use to the United States, either strategically of emmmercially. As a usval res are he thinks it would be worse than uselors." With the Panims. Caual completed it will take a modern war £ot moving as a unit. at least seventeen days to steam from Hampton Bords to San Francisco, or vias versa, and seventeen days is a long time to wait when thirteen-inch shells are, musing up .019's front yard." Me, Stevens might have added.
Another notice is as follows: "Comrader,-
Don't be surprised. I offer you my services as a barber I do bair-cutting and beard trimming for halt the charges of professional burhere. I gaarantee the quality of my work. Please give me a trial”-
- WORKMAN INHERITS £365,000.
The most talked about man in Dablin is Edward Corcoraz, the saddler who he inherited. a fortune estimated at £335,030 by his solicitor. The nucleus of the by
Baliyan, who migrated from Ireland and
prospered so exceedingly in the neighbourho of Seattle that death found him in Septembar 1900 the owner of real property worth rather more than £100,000,-
Since then, with the growth of Seattly, the property has more than trabled in valus, in spite of the fact that its allocation has been argued in nesly every sort the Ualted State can boast of.
He is a gheerful, vigorous man of sixty-eight, with good features and a well-set head erarned with a wealth of white hair. Hard work and be have been com ɔunions all his life until two years ago, when he gave up following his trada and placed himself in the care o; twɔ of his sons. His other son and his tw♪ daughters are mscried,
Amaming it out to ba $300,000,000, he allows.86,000) Fair for interest, at two per cent adda $10,000,000 for alaking fund to retire the bonds, and $2,100,070 for operating expens-, and so pilas spa total outlay of 38,403,000 to be covered. very year by cans! tolla. As the Suez Canal had only 11,160,000 tons of trade thirty-six years after its opening, be takit for granted that we ogeld not expect any more at Panama,
at the high and tolls of $1.50 per faw, cold ranch only $13,740,000 leaving a shortage of $1,660,000. apolies brought to light the fact that the vessel. It would be easy to pink flaws in these figures wat improperly registorad order of the British Minister at Feking noties to prove For instanes, Mr. Stevens assumes that the British ownership was served upon the canal will be built sutirely on borrowed money, steamer, and--as no proof that she was British The truth is that the greater part of the oust orned was forthcoming, she was seized and. will probably be paid from current revenues, brought to Cour: for adjudication.
and to that czlent neither interest nor sinking The circumstances of the case, as the learned fade will have to be provided for. Even if the Judge stated in his judgement, are pecalise, of money were all borrowed, engb year's instalment great importance and in many respects a vel of ton million dollars put into the sinking fand Corcoran is not uplifted by his good fortans. “It is a pity it did not come to me earlier in No notion of the kind and hitherto bon brought would reduce the annual interest charga by two ander the Merchant Shipping Acts of 1894 and hundred thousand dollars, so that the outgoit," he said, philosophieslypto an "Express" 1906, though several nou involving foxfolturower be brought within the income, and representative. "Now nothing will induce ms arcse under the Merchant Shipping it of 1854, within thirty year, when the usefulness of the to leste County Dablie." Masers Ginsburg & Ce, the real defendante to anal would be still merely in its infaner, the the action, admited that the Maori King was wole debt would be paid off and the tolls coull not British owned, flat she was wrongfully sealed down to a nominal figea or evan registered, and that she had no right to use abolished, the British flag, and such alligations of the Crown as ware not admitted wire proved in the course of the bearing. The real range then became whether the Court could exercise discretion, and if so, whether, upon equitable considerations, the degree for forfeiture sonid: nat ba mado. The defendants argued that diffrences between the wording of the Aot of 18-4 and the Aole of 1894 and 1906 gave the Court & discretionary power, eq sivalent to the (MITSUBISHI CO) moroifal consideration of the Crown referred to in a caso decided under the old Act. The OOAL DEPARTMENTlared Judge has held that such a discretion w. uld have been olearly indiested, and has up-
that it would take at least two weeks MAXUNO.UCHI, TOKYO.
held the contention of the Crowa Advouste for a modera flot to stem from Bobo that in Scation 76 of the Merchant Shipping to San Francisco, and almost as long for Act of 1894 the word "and" cannot be read one to go from Kiel to New York. The stire as "or", thus precluding say such interpretades that an enemy would waste thirteen-inch fisa as that put forward, by the dataace, shella on our front yard" when he know that The Court agreed alss with the submission of the plaintiff that the main difference betwean the relevant sections of the old sud new Acta lies in the fact thatat the prosont day forLoiture dates from adjudication and not from the act of wrongful registration. Even laymen must have feand soms subtle pleasure in the conflict that has raged around the extob manaing of a few commonplace phrases, and food for reflexion is. provided in the thought that while an Aut of Parliament means what it says, days may be taken up by arguments as to the exact meaning of a word of three letters. The decision itself came es no surprise to thous who had followed the Be through its fual slagen. In the learned Jnige's able exposition of the reasons which led him to come to the decision le did, the facts of the case stand out in the clearest light, un encumbered by inases of technical argument which could only be appreciate by thoes well versed in legal dialectics. The operation of the Merchant Shipping Acts may seem harab, bat, ss was pointed out in the judgement, the owners were afforded every facility in establishing their right; in fact from the Court and the prosecution They received ovary indulgence they could reasonably expoot. At the last moment, when the case osmé on for telah, Ginsburg & Co were allowed to appear as parsons interested, and an adjournment was granted to unable them to plead,
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Nor need a railroad man have any very brand grasp of commercial principles. Ths only tolerably important America basinsa My Stevens dan 800 for the canal is the trad, between the east coast of the United Status and Americ, and that he thinks would not amount to woh because there are low South Ameri on between the Andes and the Pacifio and thean mostly of a primitive sort, Saying nothing of the rapid dovolopment and the assured fature of Chile and Peru (sad the canal is built for the future as well so for the present), Mr. Storens ignores the prime reason for the existence of the enterprise as an American Government undertaking Ai railroad ma it is parlaps natural that be should. The driving forsa pashed forward over all obstacles for thirty years until an Esthmian canal is now actually on the way toward complation has basa the desire of the people of the Pasillo Coast of the United States to free their industries from. the domination of the transen inental raifronda, The object of the enterprise has been primarily domestic, foreign trade has been only incidental. Three Pacific States of California, Oregon, sad. The forfeiture of a steamship is a savors Washington are a large as the German penalty, and conterable sympathy will be Empire and the United Kingdom combiond
lt for Ginsburg and Co., who are a reputable they have nearly three and * bait Russian firm, as there is no doubt that their million people already, and they can easily panishment is in a large measure due to the support a hundred millions. With Alaska wrong-doing of others. It is, indeed, a matter. British Columbia the Pacific Northwest has a "for regret that there appears to be no way of million and a quarter square miles. That in bringing home to £10 partiss notnally where the trade is coming from that will tax responsible for shipping these unfortunate the capacity of the esnafa trade in large port coolies, au-adequate punishment for their still to be developed, but which will spring into cillainy. The crime of tracking in human life at its first fros opportunity, The trads of beinga is particularly ab errent to modera the west coast of the United States, remarks civilization, especially when, te in this once it is Mr. Stevens, airily, as one dlamissing a trife, virtually undisputed that the coolies are shipped we have already. Le "we," the railroads, maler fake pretenon. Though the registration have it, as far as we have permitted it to of the Mori King, and the use by her of the exist, but "wa" shall not have it all on our we Eritish fag, wore undoubtedly illegal, ibis terms after the canal is finished,— Collier's probable that her owners would have escaped Weekly. punishment bad she carried any but buman
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