NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE Steamship
"KLEIST,"
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby Informed that their Goods with the exception of Opiwa, Treasare and Valuables, as being Tanded and stored at their risk into the hasardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, Kowloon, and West Point Godowns, whence delivery may be obtained.
No Cins will be admitted after the Goods have loft the Godowns, and all goods remaining andelivered after the 5th March, will be subject
to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 5th March, at 9.30 ..
All Claim must reach us before the 9th March,
or they will not be recognized.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
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LORDS, AND HOUSE OF COMMONS
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND
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NHE Company's Steamship
THE
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having arrived, Cousigueos of Cargo are haráby inform that Goods will be landed into the anzardous medior extra hazardous Godsons of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godowa Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained."
No Clains will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Chains must be sent to the Office of the Undersigned before NOON on the 5th March, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 5th March, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
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Hongkong. 25th February, 1909.
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NOTICE.
CONSIGNEES of Cargo from London ex
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"Charente" in tion with above Stastner inforined that their goods with the ex- ception of Opium, Treasure ond Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra hazardons. Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ld, at Kowloon whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unters intimation is received from the Cowsignces before Noos, TO-DAY requesting it to be lauded here.
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining nelaimed after- MOSDAY, the 8th inst., at Noos, will be subject to rent and landing charges.
All claims must be sent in te men or before the 8th last, or they will not be recognized,
All damaged packages will be exninined on MONDAY, the 8th inst, at 3 P.M
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
P. DE CHAMPMORIN, Agent
Hongkong, 1st March, 1909.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE F. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer
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THE CHINESE STUDENTS EDUCA↑
TION COMMITTEE IN LONDON. Mr. C. Grenville Alabaster, Secretary to the China Association writes on the aboxa subject'. in China the girterly record of the Christian Literature Society for China. He says:---
B. G. G. Booth, Esq., Into HBM:~Consul-- General, Canton.
College, London.
Walter W. Seton, Esq., Sacretary, University
College, London."
Walter Smith, Esq, Secretary, King's
Chiun Association,
H. C, Wilcox, Esq., Assistant Secretary,
INSURANCE OF PROFITS LOST THROUGH FIRE.
The so-aslied Awakening of Chinathe gradual recognition of the principle that con- stitutional or administrative progress on Was torn lines can only be achieved when those who direct the policy of the Stato have received a modern education--has had the effort, during the last few years, of causing many men of stand- ing in both the literary, and commercial asses in China to send their cons abroad for education Insuruner Institute on Insurance of Consequon
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Mr. Gautier De Ste. Croix deliveret an address last month Hofore the Birmingham
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THE VALUE OF PROTECTION, air that the valus of the protection afforded In the course of his address Mr. Ste. Croix andler a consequential loss policy would almost correct, taken of the contingencies that would entirely depend on the forecast. sore or less
without any proper conception of this require arise. That policies were frequently issued ment he had abundant evidence. From a perusal of the prospectuses issueil, it would appear that the leading principle sought to be obtained was uniformity of method walch would be applicable to every case, but it did not appear to him possible tlint business conducted on these lines evald lead to a satisfactory result,
in foreign schools, miversities, and technicallustitial Loks. He began by saying that when he tutions. At fast the influx was to Japan, where it received an invitation to read a paper on the has been stated that there are as many as thirty subject his desire to meet the institute's wishes thousand Chinese students at the various schools overcame his fears as to his ability to deal with and colleges. The selection of Japan as an
the subject in a puner warthy of the occasion. educational feld was natural by reason of its He was influenced in accepting the invitation geographical position, similarity of custom, and by the opportunity which the recent adoption DO IT NOW. YOU WILL BE AMAZED cheapes of bring; bat, for reasons which are of this branch of insurance business by the
His address i
known to all who have studied the recent history leading tariff fire ofices had created. of the Far East, and which need not be more still, as it bad always been, his firm conviction It was itself a suficiently desirable (raining-ground for
that insuranos of consequential loss would in tho the sons of some of the wealthier Chinese literati insurance enterprise. Inileed, new that it had Europe and the United States. There is every and would at length enjoy for its development anil merchants. The pick of China's student was its proper und legitimate source of supply, przsequential loss would not fuit, when fully class has gone. and will contiune to go to
been adopted by what he had always contended
students will benefit by the education thus powerful tariff are epaules, he had no doubt reason to believe that whilst China and her all the intelhgelee at the command of our obtained, the countries selected as a field of study that it would, with their fostering influences, will also benant in the future by the establishment take its legitimate position as a most important of umicable cotamercial and political relation., and unenkivated field for insurance, enterprises. ship; for student seldom forget or cease to think and speak well of their school, That the Mr. Ste. Croix remarked that as in the life
SPECIAL FEATURES OF TRADES. Americans approve of the influx of Chiness of the individual or nation cousemences are students is well known. President Roosevelt, seldom proportionate to the incident from slich in a recent message to Congress. expressed they arise, so in like manuer, the amount of the a desire to attract more to the United loss sustained in consequence of a fire will far States. In England, too the advantage to or depend on the circumstances peculiar to be derived from the presence of serious students the business in which the fire takes place than From the East has not been over-looked. Early the netaal demensions of the direct damage in 1907. Sir John Jonlan, K.U.M.G., His resulting therefrom. The common feature in Majesty's Minister in Peking, in a dispatch to wholesale werehouses, for instance, was the the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regular occurrence of active and stagnant pointed out that a reason for the comparatively seasons. A moderate fire occurring at the open. smal number of Chinese students in England jug of an active season, might so damage the was the lack of accurate knowledge on the part particular lines of goods about to be delivered of the Chinese gentry, as to the facilities that and so disorganize the whole establishment, sto could be abtumed in this country for the occasion a total suspension of sufficient durations education of their s The died sag, to bring about the loss of the whole seuson's gestion in Sir John Jordan's dispatch has not trade. On the other hand, the total destruction passed unleeded. In regense to it, a strong of the praises at the cominencement of a stag Committes has been formed which has carefully nant sossen would not interfere with the ability collected all the information, as to elucational to secure other premises and reconstitute the facilities and cost of living, which any Chinese stock in the time needful to resume the ordinary student who contemplate, coming to England course of the business before the commencement may reasonably be expected to require. This of the next setire yeason). information was for the most part obtained by was the class of goods carried.. On this largely A peculiar feature ciraalarining the principal universities, schools, depended the duration of any interruption of techuical institutions, railways, and manufactur trade following a fire. If the goods were of ing firms & Great Britain and Ireland, inform perishable obaracter, which from their nature ing them of the objects of the Committee, and demand a prompt sale and continual renewal, it asking them the conditions on which they would be prepared to receive and train students from be solely dependent on the ability to see
was clear that the interruption sustained
would China At the same time a register was prepared other premises for the purpose of the business; which contained the names, addresses, and terms the loss in tumorer in this class would there of a considerable namber of private tators, fore be unimportant, although increased cost private families, and boarding establishments might arise out of additional rent for temporary willing to receive Chinese,
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Only-they never are well. Ons gets up in the morning tired. Another feels dull and henry Another Bushes in the face and has and cannot sleep at night, though tired out. another feels depressed at the end of the day palpitation or mounting the stairs, Stal
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that the fire gires steam for the engine literally keeps the body alive in the same way It is worked harder than any other. It
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Aut one of these symptoms makes a man or and postage, beakles allowing their offices to be far trade, where there was used as temporary head-quarters.- und
woman feel ill. No need for the doctor, comparatively they say. because the Committee was advised by one of general house dealing in holsery. Manchester the much in the canse. partly short selling season in each year, down to the
Nothing really the matter. But its gmbers. Mr. Ivan Cho, the Secretary to piece goods, and amur articles of daily require stomach is the most used, most delicate, most
on suffering. the Imperial Chinese Legation, that assistance
The quent, it would be easily understool that the risk should be given only when asked for, other of interrupted turnover was much grester in the important organ in the body. wise it would not be than that, it might create unnecessary ill-feeling be involved by a fire occurring just before the appreciated. and, worse former, is practically 12 months safes night between the parties." For these reasons the Com cominencement of the season, while in the lutter raittee did not feel justified in holding recep. the duration of interrupted turnover would be tioné, or organizing expeditions, for Chinese limited to the period needful to secure temporary students but contented itself with using a pampromises and replenish stocks, which in this phlet in English and Chinese setting forth the section were really available. Between these objects of the Committee, and giving in two extremes there were many grades, in each tabalar form the cost and duration of various of which the peculiar features were most marked. courses of study. A number of these pamphlets An instance of this was when the business was were supplied to the Chinese Students Union in more or less in specialities, the stocks of which London, and others were distributed by H. Mhad to be arranged for far ahead, and had to be fally. You will find the system tomt 1 Consuls and the various branches of the Chiun gradually outnulated in the warehouse against The little disquieting worries disappear one Take a dose as directed, day by day, faith- Associatiation in China. The Foreign Office the opening of the season for delivery. and H.M. Minister also brought the existence descriptions of goods could not be readily; and objects of the ommittee to the notice of replaced except, as a rule, at a greatly enhanced with the stomach and makes it do its own work
by one. the Wai-wu-pu and the Board of Education in cost over that at which they had been gradually in the proper way,
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Chinese students from the necessity of passing be influenced. SOLE AGENTS
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Pearce, of 7. Aan's Terrace, Chadwell Heath,¦ In the shipping house quite a different set of Whatever I ate caused me intense pain, and, BIGEL American str. 1,758. Jorge Sievert, 3rd Essex writing on April 30th, 1908, says:--
the next saison, which are preparation of standard patterns and desigas for until I tried Mother Saigel's Syrum. Within REBI, British str. 1,619, E. Almond, Zud Mar, causes operated. It was customary for theI was formented with wind and bile. shipper to spend considerable sums in the trouble was indigestion. Nothing relieved me
March-Manila 28th February, Sugar-
representatives abroad to take orders upon my complete cure soon followed."
Arratoon Y. Apeur & Co
Farther considerabla stumus were spent in the
to his half-an-hour of my Brat dose I felt relieved, and
Manila 27th Fab., General--Showan, preparation of stamps, dies, or spesial machinery
Tomes & Co. specially needful for the production of the goods. to buy the articles dealt with in a more or less It was a common practice in the shipping trade finished state, and arrange with various nann- factnrera and works to haish them. It, there fore, the factories or works. affected by fire, and
SHANGHAI TRADE.
completion. were dumsged, the deliveries of the being disposed to enter into new contracts of the goods themselves, or the special articles latest Piece Goods Market Report state:- supplied by the shipper and needful for their
Mears, Ilbert and Co. of Shanghai in their Business continues very quiet, dealers not goods might become impossible in the time any magnitude in any of the main staples of the needful in accordance with terms of sale. goods were to a far larger extent distributed have been shipped for Tientein, bat Chinese over the various situations where they are dealt report that the steamers are delayed at Chefor he trade. About 2,000 packages of goods and yarn with rather than hekt in shippers' warehouses; when finished, to be after inspection, parked demand, as throughout the winter goods are sent indeed they, as a rule, only reach there
as the Peile has hozen again. The first ship. ments to the North are no longer a criterion of wormhouse itself would not greatly influence the of freight as direct shipments by steamer and shipped. It was thus clear that fire in the from hero vin Chang wan-tan at the samo rate of suitablo size would equally suit the purpose. turnover, the more so as any other building It is to be hoped that trade with Tientsin
INDIRECT CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS.
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Consignees of Cargo by the above-named COAL DEPARTMENT with advice and letters of introduction, besides accordance with the proportion that the sales of Your other troubles arising from Indigestion Feb. Saizon 21st Feb., Fish and Rice
vessel are hereby informed that their goods are being landed and placed AT THEIX KIBX in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon where each +Constament will be sorted out Markby Mark and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
Optional Goods will be handled here unless instructions are given to the contrary within
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Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consiggise's and the Company's representative at an appointed. hour. All cisims nanst be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here aftor which date they cannot be recognised. No claim will
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The bulk of the students already in England belong to the official and wealthy commercial Dustutenance in this country, and who come, for least £200 per annan on their education anil plasachstudents who can afford to spend at
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The
Tablet form as Mother Seigel's Syrup Tablets., Mother Seigel's Syrup is also prepared in
Price 2/9,
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will be resumed 420 the old basis this Indirect consequential loss, the effect of fire, touch of the direct trade, it is unlikely that it season, as after the unfortunate out-turn, of dividuals or a whole community of a for difficult to account for the changes in the China might result in actual loss to a number of in-will be continuel on a large scale. It is circumstances, directly result to the proprietors ation about the condition of affairs in the greater magnitude tan could, nader aay tile, us it is not easy to obtain reliable inform- for instance, gas works or an electric light trade in American Sheetings, for many years of the establishment which it affects Take, interior, but there seems little doubt that the in either might so damage su important link trade, is not nu expanding one. Deliveries for station. A fire of quite moderate proportions one of the principal staples of the Northern supply. The direct consequential loan to the
the chain of operations as to stop the whole last 4 years are as follows- the loss their constituency would suffer through works of either might be trifling compared to the failure of the supply of light. The stopisge of the supply of power from an electris power station would preface, indirect consequential loss quite out of proportion to the incident of fire to level of other producing centres, and not im affect his turnover: to the manufacturer it might of the trade; most of the Chinose yarns are low which it is due, To the trader jo might seriously China has had an adverse effect on this branch probably the development of cotton spinning in diminish his output;
in
1905.
1906
1907
1903
5,481,890 pieces 2,869,330 2,546,667 1,963,782
American prices are high compared with the
PERLAR. Dutch str., L086, wart. 3rd March-
Swałow 2nd March. Ballast Asiatic Petroleum Co.
SIGAN, British str., 1.047, F. Jamieson, 25th SHINNO MARU, Jap. str. 1.420, Y. Furukawa,
24th Feb-Mají 17th Feb., Coal-Nika." February Haiphong and Hollow 23rd February, General Butlerfold & Swire, SUNGKIANG, British atr., 897, G. H. Feine
TENTSIN, British str., 1,227, G. W. Fedy. 15th father, 2nd Marah-Iloilo 26th February, TELEMACHUS Brit. str. 1,340. Edwards, 2nd
Sagar-Butterfield & Swire. March Saigon 36th February, Rica- Chinese,
TINGBANG, British str., 1,045, R. Y. Andrew, Fohonrabaya 21st Jan, and Samurang 2nd Feb, Sugar-Batterfield & Swire.
23rd Feb-Chinking 19th Feb., General, -Jardine. Matheson & Co. VENTE, American str., 608, G. Bentroria, 28th Feb-Manila 24th Feb.--Jorge & Co. WINGSANG. British str., 1,517, Jan. Smith, 28th Feb-Chiawantae 20th and Chefoo 22ad
Conl-Jardize. Matheson & Co.
Fab..
WINNEBAGO, British str., 2.965. Sowdon, 25th
YATSHING, British str., 1,424, Courtney, Ard Feb. San Francisco 5th Jan, and Moji 27th Feb.. Bulk Oil-Standard Oil & Co.
YERIMO MARU, Japanese str., 2.531. Kabavashi,
March-Moji 26th February, Coal Jardine, Matheson & Co. 28th Feb-Kutchinotzn 23rd Feb, Coal— Osaka Shoshn Ka'aha, YORIHIMA MARU. Jap. str., 2.356. Nakamawa,
St March-Moji 25th February, Coal- Ataka & Co.
SAILING VEBELS. LYNDHURST, British 4-masted barque, 2.500 Parnell. 14th September-Bangkok 25th August, Case Oil-Standard Oil Co.
H. M. Hillier, Esq., Commissioner, Timperial about the loss out, to the agunt it might bring counts, from which stout and durable patire B WEEKLY PRESS. Jaly to Decembe
ER. P. Moon, Esq., late M.P. for St 'Panoras, N.
ON SALE. JOUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG ket value at time of loss, as covered under a
cloth is made. Deliveries of goods generally 1908. With INDEX. Pries $7.50. fire insurance policy, did not, under certain there are still much heavier stocks than is Ollion cironmstances, by any means toprevent actual desirable in the interests of trade.
are going on in fairly satisfactory way but Ou sale at the "HONGKONG DAILY PRF53*
Bongmag, 21st January, 1909.
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