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INSURANCES

NOTICE.

HAVING bean appointed AGENTS in

Hongkong for the WESTERN ASSURANCE COMPANY, WO are prepared to acospt approved European and Chinese Risks at Current Rates.

JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, Hongkong, 18th August, 1909. [1083

TORTH BRITISH AND MERCAN.

NTILE INSURANCE COMPANY.

CO.

WITH WHICH re InconrobATED THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE TOTAL FUNDS AT 31st. DosяBE, 1908

£19,121,310.

I. Authorised Capital

Subscribed Capital

... £6,000,000 3,275,000

Paid-up Capital.........

II. Fire Fando

0 0 1,212,500 3,304,753

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The Undersigned, AGENTS for the above -Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS.

against FIRE at Current Rates.

SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.,

Agenta.

Hongkong, 14th August, 1909.

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NAGASAKI.

CODE WORD: "DOCK,"

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DOCK No.

Extrene Length...

Length on Blogka

Width of Entrance on Top

722 feet.

.714"

:961

Width of Entranca on Bottom... 881 Water on Blecks at Spring Tide 344

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Width of Entrance on Bottom...

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Length on Blocks

Width of Entrance on Top

Width of Entrance on Bottom

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CHEAP TRIPS TO PEEING, THE STORY OF A POOR MATS JAUNT ACHOSS BIBERIA.

BY GORDON MAREL.

Think of it. You breakfast in Landou one

Saturday morning; the following Saturday you Are rumbling in the Irkata expres over the marchy prairies of West Siberia; and the week- end after that you are watching the great brasay Mongolian 'sun sat over the temples of old Poking

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEE 17in, 1909.

round the kills-the-Budgie Migiro Kyr

which solved the problem of. Bibarian troeppert by providing limitable fuel for the locomotive.

a felt the first appofitilisation at Cheliablmak, and, ones through the wonderful Ural Mountains, know that we had bidden Siberia good-bye. One's view of Bassin dependa

wont. If from the west, it has a not too whether you approach the country from sast atmotive prospect, and its civilisation, dous mot when it is from the dismal region beyond the smita

you as being particularly desirable; but Volga that you come, it is a land of joy and enlightenment by comparison.

The terminus of the great Biberian milway which makes this possible is at Vladivostok. SENDOURS OF SUNRISE OVER MOSCOW, Eleven days out from Vladivostok, not The Peking trippers drop are at Harbin, reckoning the stay at Irkutsk, the oil-engine day a ride short of that far away Russiau strong which had met da at Toula dragged our weary hold hat if I describe how I came from Vladi train into Moscow. It was smaries, and to know vostok to London for £35, I shall include the main features of a cheap trip from or to Peking, the beauties of Moscow you must enter the city from the eart, when the morning sun rushaa to kiss the gilded enpolas and crosses of fia 1,600 churches. Ah! that was a sight of splendour never to be forgotten !.

as fares and distancor sas about the same, and passengers from or to both places are in com- pany for twelve or thirteen of the fourteen days.

I shall haston over well-known routes to hotel and sight-seeing expenses. Another £ London nas. I spent £1 in Moscow, covering

into the glare of the Metropolis from Liverpool- saw me through to London, and as I stopped street Station I took measure of my personal budget, and found that I could indulge in the luxury of a "taxi" to the homa of ray parents, and still jingle two golden sovereigns in my pocket-Pall Mall Gasefte.

I will pass over the trying details of rambl inga and adventures in the East, and will start my story on the platform of Vladivostok's eat little station, where I stood one grisp, frosty morning in October, wondering if the amalt sam in my pocket would see me through to London and home. It seemed a big proposition a trip of about sight thousand miles, to last three weeks or more, with food to buy on the train and “diggings sts pay for at any town wheroin T

I might want to say. I had heard of third-class tickets by the emigrant trains, cost- ing about £10 through to London; but I Fearned for other companionship than that of peasants, and I was not an entomologist with ambitions. Moreover, these emigrant trains | OBJECT OF HER WANDERINGS ALL OVER THE carry no food. You must take your own, or pick up lightring luncheons from mysterious Biar dishes, at this station or that; and stations do not happen often in Siberia.

MAGNETIC SHIP'S 15 YEARS' CRUISE.

WORLD.

The non-magnetic ship Carnegie is now lying in Falmouth harbour preparatory to her start upon her fifteen years' cruise, during which she will visit all the known seas of the world Built without a scrap of steel or iron being used in her construction or fittings, no deviation corTOO.

Her ers and staff number twenty-one, Dr. Baner being the director, Mr. W. J. Peters chist of staff. Capt. C. E. Little field arigating master, and Dr. C. C. Craft ship's observations at Falmouth, After completing an elaborate series of

So I went second by the express, which carries only two classes of passengers. That cost me £18, I put aside another £5 for food on the train, rackoning at the rate of about foar rombles a day. The food. I may say, was capital Itions, will have to be applied to the observations. found it ampls for my modest tastes. There was little neod, or chanoo, for farther ex- penditure on the run to Moscow, I was able to look after my own baggage, a barge Japanese basket.

LEAVING THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.

It is a glamorous sensation, this pushing out on the express to or from the edge of the world. What a gall those elining metsis bridged: What a queer sause of marness to home they stimulated con pared with the sonse of distance when one boarisa P. and O. Iner at Shanghai, which has to bucket across many strange seas before reaching its European haven!

The second bell smete our ears. The pompous stationmaster strode to theengine, and headed the driver his staff of offes, without which authority no. Bussian engineer dare open the throttle: then we stole away towards the Manchurian mountains, on the first stage of the journey to Irkutsk, 2,778 versts away, where we were dae to arrive on the fourth day.

There were about fifty passengers, and as slong as the daylight lasted we spent the time watching the fleeting panorams through the cor! ridor windows. When night fell, perhaps we drank tea & Busse in the dining car, or played, chess, or again stood in the corridor and watched the noon-light play on mountain and valley, latening the whin, may be, to the gal bent mibaltern of Siberian infantry playing his plaintive bataka, and chasing the melody of some stupid little Caucasian lovo ditty sung by his cham, vivacious and, pretty dancing girl, bound for St. Petersburg after a denson, Vladivostok balls,

on the

At Manchuria, as the frontier station is alled, the baggaga was examined, and then, one sold and freaty midnight, we ontored the $,500,000 square miles of land, with their | 16,000,000 inhabitants-Siberia.

"THE MAN WHO WANTED A BATH."

Now, the astonishing feature far was the oppressive heat inside the train. Outside, -Biberia "justified-ile-frigid-reputation, and it- was cold enough attach icicles to our maramoth angins. Inside, it was bot enough to make any true Christian sign for a bath. This tropical stamosphere was not surprising on investigation, tor one found that there were double windows everywhere, practically no ventilation, and a rigorous Kenting apparatus deing overtime. The steward seemed pained when Linquired as to the possibilition of a bath, and from that moment, I could see that I was shadowed suspect, the man who wanted a bath." I spoke to the two other Englishmen on the train, and together we went in bearch of the elusive bath- room. We discovered.it in hopeles disse, the bath itself being packed, I believe, with luggage. But we were not to be denied, snd, one morning. before the other passengers were

zatir, we stormed the ordinary lavatory, and never, I am sure, felt more virtuous than after our "plunge" in what was little more than a washstand.

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Bity

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After skirting the mysterious waters of Lake Baikal, we bumped into Irkutsk. It is a cold, cheerlen city on the banks of the Angara dates back to 1652; has a population of about 70,000; and is chiefly known to English people by reason of occasional newspaper mention when the convicte there hold their snnual revolt. I spent a few days in the city, and was glad to get away. 4 bed at anything but a first-rate hotel pests about four stillings a night. The prevailing note at Irkutsk seemed to be shabby finery in people, streets, and buildings. It was in a silk hat and hobnailed boots. There was a gorgeous cathedral, not a road worthy the name; ta opera house that might have adorned the boulevards, but a wooden bridge that the Zulas would disown; alextric light and a ladies band, but not a decent dish at the hotels. One came across aggressive Biberian millionaires driving in fine droschkies behind beautiful horseflesh. Their womenfolk wore dressed in privelam furs and the

latest Continental freak. fashions. But to those men of wealth eat WAJ 13 good as a visit to the Zoo. They shovelled their food down with their knives; except when they relied via their fingers.

Roughly, my stay in Irkutsk cost me £1. Then there was a farther El to pay for sleeping" accommodation on the express to Moscow, an "extra" with which I had not reckoned,

the

the Carnegie will proceed to Madeirs and return to New York via Bermuda,

Dr. L. A. Baner, the director, in an inter view said the chief purpose of the work of the vessel wda to furnish data for constructing cor

rooted lines of equal magnetic variation, and all the other magnatio elements for the use of the mariner. The mariner, The fornier, had to rely chiefly on the compass and log- however, did not point exactly north and south, but made an angle which at Fal mouth at the present time was nearly varied from place to place and from time to time; 18deg, weet by north. The magnetic lines and the work of the Carnegie would be to find correct data on which more reliable charts could bu based. This would entbin ships to steer more direct course from port to port, thus the shortening the passage and minimising danger. In addition to the practical work data would be obtained to enable scientists to deter mine the laws by magnetic currants in their wanderings from year to year and thus farmish

basis for a better theory of the many my- terious phenomena of the magnetic world.

SINGON & CO.

ITRON

A BEEMING STERNITY OF SNOW, It was colder outside, "that in—when we started on the second stage of the journey to the old Russian capital 3,500 miles scram the plains, and soon we ran well into the Innd of snow-snow much as you can only ses on those vast antroiden tundra"now of pitiless. purity, covering the land like a huge borderless blanket. The foresta of pine and birch seemed to represen Nature's last effort against ournsh of winter. We passed a village miles ON aa average every thirty-fiva or so. Silent and sleepy places they were, looking in the distance like some big black sors on the earth's white bosom. They were all monotonously alike built mainly of wood from the foresta, the only two respectable buildings being the station and the church. It mattered not how dirty and poor the village, there arose from the drab cluster of hats a clean white horse of worship, with its distinctive green roof.".

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Friday

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Bussian Train Time is 23 minutes earlier than 8. M. R. Time. TICKET AGENCIES The Company's Railway and Steamer Tickets are obtainable at all the Agencies of the International Sleeping Car and Express Trains Co. and Messrs. Thos. Cook & Bon.

RAILWAY HOTELS-YAMATO HOTEL (Tel. Add ;( " YAMATO")

At Dairen, Port Arthur and Changchun, also very shortly at Mukden, all under the Company's management.

TUSHUN COAL.

FRESH STOCKS ALWAYS ON HAND AT DAIREN AND NEWCHWANG DEPOTS. SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY COMPANY, DAIREN. Tel. Add: "MANTEISU." Codes: A.B.C., 5th Ed., AI, and "Lieber's.

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