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NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

* BARBER LINE OF STEATERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

The Steamship "EGREMONT CASTLE

FROM NEW YORK.

TONAIGNÉES of Carge are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Company Ltd.. at Kowloon, whence and/or from. the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hava loft the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 12th inst. will be subjaci to rent.

All Cinims against the Steamer must be pre- sented to the Undersigned on or before the 5th prox., or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the 12th inst., at 10 a...

No Fire Insurance has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & Co., Ln.,

Agosti.

Hongkong, 5th November, 1917.

(1296

"SHIRE" LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM EUROPE.

THE. Steamship

"DENBIGHSHIRE," having arrived from the shove Ports, Consignees of Cargo by her are heroby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardons Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the wherres delivery may be obtained,

Goods not cleared by the 12th inst, ut 6 p.m. will be subject to rent.

All broken, chafed and damaged packages are to be left in the Godowns, whers they will be examined en 12th ivst.. at 9.30 AM. Claims against the Steamer must within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will be presented

not be recognized, i

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in say case whatever.

Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong, 7th November, 1912, [59

BOCIETA NAZIONALE DI SERVIZI MARITTIMI

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

FROM BOMBAY.

THE Steamship

T

HAPPY AUSTRALIA.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 12′′¤ #1913,

BY MADAME MELBA IN THE "DAILY MAIL.""]

"You were born in New York, were you not, madame ?"

No, nt Melbourne."

期

Oh, but it's the same thing," travelled Frenchinan said to me. It is incredible how ignorant some people in the Old World are about Australia. When they learn that I come from there they est pece black, or hint that I am not, gently suggest that my grandmother must

Really it is astonishing a true type since I am not a marsupial. World knows about this newest continent. of Australia they would probably fill in If these people were asked to draw a map the interior with freak kangaroos and prehistoric animals like the geographers of the Middle Ages.

WM POWELL

LTD.

TELEPHONE 346.

low little the Old GENTLEMEN'S OUTFITTERS.

settling down. Life is a little less pic

The pioneer days are past, Australia is turesque fortunes are not made and lost

In

day; less romantic-gold escorts are not held up by bushrangers; less thrilling explorers do not perish in Tom Tiddler's land-than it was. We had the era of gold. We have bad the era of grass.

We are in the era of grain. in the beginning we were not much more than a string of seaports, We had six States still, but they were little more than decades ago. (Our activities centred in a geographical expression until two and circled around them. Great citios grow up which were like the monstrous maunikins with huge heads who figure in pantomime, We are changing all that. Austrália is no longer a mere fringe of popalation scattered along an immense Ana-board.

THE SPIRIT OF ADVENTUR

LLAMA

UNDERWEAR

IN

THREE

WEIGHTS.

GUARANTEED UNSHRINKABLE

WHITE

66

VIYELLA

""

UNDERWEAR

WARMTH WITHOUT WEIGHT.

SWEATERS, CLUB COLOURS.

COAT SWEATERS. GOLF-HOSE.

town, and hamlet in Australia as they are here in England, although twelve thousand miles divides us. tendency to think of our Dominion as

There is a nation still in its swaddling clothes, I been shed, and Australia is thickening is not.

The emblems of childhood have into a lusty manhood of splendid pro- mise.

Immigration, irrigation, land settle- ment, good roads and national railways: constructed for developmental purposes are filling up the rich and fertile lands which stretch from the coast line to the heart of the Commonwealth. The spirit of adventure which caused the gold rushes of the fifties is still alive. But it-is cor rected and checked by the wisdom win- nowed from experience. The people are doing big things in a big way. For ex will enable 5,000 stardy families to be ample, the Burrenjurck Reservoir which planted in the Riverino, will be second only to the Assouan Dam. It will huld as much water as Sydney Harbour, upon whose bosom all the Empire's fleets could ride and yet leave room for other navies. All parties are united in their deter The people still pray when a dry spellmination to assist Great Britain to retain threatens, but they have laid heart the the supremacy of the seas at any sacrifice, advice given by Bishop Moorhouse" By That is the keynote of Australia's im- all means pray, but also store the water perialism. As a people, we have been which Providence has so generously equal to all the demands made upon us. showered upon you.' In Victoria the pre- The Empire to-day represents the evolu- sent Governor, Sir John Fuller, is active- tion of centuries. As the time arrives for ly associating himself with forward the readjustment, of relations so surely irrigation policy. The disastrous docs some man, or men, discern the pro- droughts of the early days can never per way to adapt the old order to the

rocur.

now.

SUPREMAUY OF THE SEAS.

numbers amid the changes and chances To maintain a people unchanged in of this mortal life, about four children who produced children at all. At present on the average must be born to each pair. valuable sections of our nation in all the average number among the most ranks was about three, while the still falling statistics, no less than common observation, indicated that two children Was the ideal at which many such parents probably aimed. Carried out all through the nation such a consummation would involve a rapidly shrinking population; while, selectively exercised on the best material, it had, if a less obvious, a still more disastrous effect.

PRESSURE OF MODERN. LIFE.

In regard to this aspect of the case, it was to be observed that the pressure of modern life on the less wealthy classes Australia is loyal. Australia is pros often tended to a wrongly directed selec perous Australia faces the future with tion. While the thriftiem pauper could devolves the responsibility of helping to support himself and any number of off. Upon British statesmen rely more and more on the State to so shape the course of Empire that this spring, the sound and able found the. ployed in making our Empire impregIn some cases, the Church might weli creative enthusiasm may be rightly emburden of children increasing continually. Better still,nable as Holy Writ.

ing prosperity. The chicken in the

The great primary industrine, which aro the backbone of every country have been "CAPRI,"

built up to a wonderful state of abound-out fear. having arrived from the above port, Consignees of Carge by her are hereby informed that their pot. Goods are being landed at their risk into the It is un fait accompli. The general aver- policy is not a dream in Australia. hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of age of wealth and well-being is not ex- the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown celled anywhere. Company, Ltd., Kowloon, whenco delivery may be obtained. Perishable Goeds to be taken delivery of immediately.

All Claims must be sent to the Oon of the undersigned before Noon on the 18th inst, or they will not be recognised. ⠀

All Claims must be presented within ton days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.

to rent.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 15th inst. will be subject All broken, chafed, and damaged goods must be left in the godowns, where they will be examinod on the 15th inst., at 9.30 a.it. No Fire Insurance has been affected.

CARLOWITZ & Co.,

Agante. Hongkong, 8th November, 1912.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

FROM KOBE AND MOJI. THE Steamship

THE

steadily advance. Best of all, in creating a Greater Britain beyond the seas wa have strengthened those crimson ties of friendship which Sir Henry Parkes so graphically compacted into a memorable phrase. elke

IRREPRESSIBLE OPTIMISMI,

FALLING BIRTH RATE.

raiso & warning voice. Let them take two instances out of many: the open and im- moral advertisements for servants or officials without encumbrances, and the payment by the State to carefully -PLAQUE OF EMPTY CRADLES IN ENGLAND.

chosen men in its employ, euch as the seamen who man its fleets, of a wage in- Consciously Australians have "cultivated of a paper read at the recent Church Con- Both these actions tended indirectly to The Falling Birth-rate was the subjece sufficient to support a wife and family. tiously they are striving to be worthy of M.A., F.R.S., Fellow and Tutor of become sound and useful members of the the best attributes of the race. Conscieri- their stock.

gress at Home by Mr. W. C. D. Whetham, the suppression of children who would painful and plucky endeavour they are that until the second half of the eigh

After a hundred years of

Trinity College, Cambridge. He said community. born and the secrets of its rust, natural teenth century the population of Great qualities to generations which had filling up continent, which stub

To and on our moral and spiritual resources. Measured by the standards of bor, but sustained no great or continual learned to use them better might be the Britain underwent fluctuations in num older generations there is, maybe, larger dash of speculation in the charac increase. Losses by death or emigration chief reason of our presence on this globe ter of our people, an approximation to approximately balanced the gains by at all: To refuse to accomplish our just rashness in a few of their political ex-birth or entry from abroad. The birth-share in the joint labour unless we had periments, a seeming disregard of social rate was probably between 20 and 40 per reason to believe that our contribution conventionalities in their daily life. But 1,000, while the death-rate in the cities could only be worthless or maimed, was then ours is a new continent and we are reached 30. But when the vast supplies a betrayal of the divine purpose of life, a new people. And latitude stamps itself of energy stored in our coalfields were rojection of the spiritual basis of on all peoples. The grit and (shall I use made available by the discoveries and existence, on which the life of the Church, an Australian alang word) gumption inventions associated with the industrial if it was to continue and prosper, must which settled the Commonwealth would revolution a great increase in the number always be maintained. not alone have given them victory. They of the people that could be supported was Conism, undaunted faith, and colonising in and demanded by the need to develop also had to possess an irrepressible optim-made possible by the increased resources, atinet, which has made 18 Empire them. For a hundred years the popula tion will come with greater maturity. Ason grew, both by a slight increase in builders, Greater solidity and more cau-

those eternal qualities of racial domine- it is, Australians have in largo measure the number of birthe and by the falling tion, truth,

death rate produced by improvements in

The freight market during the fortnight justice,

and sanitation, medicine, and surgery. honesty,

-under review has retained all the strength courage, and having them they will never The population was still growing, but recently acquired, and if there is not much go far astray.

aince 1876 a Out of them is springing up a national-peared. The birth-rate, which for many due to the light offerings of tonnage, whilst new phenomenon had ap-business done is the different trades this is ism which must help to mould the future years had been alightly increasing till it Time-chartering for prompt as well as for- of our Empire. The recent declaration had reached 35.5 per 1,000 per annum of waril delivery has been upon a very extensive by the Prime Minister of Australia that the population of England and Wales, had safe, and in some instances exceptionally Australians will stand shoulder since fallon steadily till it now stood at high rates have been put through. shoulder with the Motherland is no more about 24 per 1,000, and in many "re ery of the Tadpole and Taper brand. It sidential districts was probably less is the voicing of convinced imperialism than 15 per 1,000. A similar change had There was a period in our fight toward nationhood when & fow stunted souls proached separatism, and spoke about cutting the painter." But they slumber dust and their evil doctrines have the been contemptuously forgotten by a people whose sole aim is to maintain the paramountcy of our Empire.

"ARRATOON APCAR," haring arrived from the above Poris, signees of Cargo are hereby informed that their doods will be delivered from alongside

Cargo impoding the discharge will be landed at consignees' risk and expense into the hazar dons, andfer extra hazardous Gudowas of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited.

No Fire Insurance has been efected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned.

DAVID BASSOON & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hongkong, 8th November, 1912. (890

MARTIN'S APIOL &STEEL ASAPILIS

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MARTIN, Owls, BC,thampton, Sog

MARTIN'S APIOLASTEEL

*

PASSED THE CANAL. October 8th-Alcinous, Meinam, Schuyl- KiH, Telemachus, Estonia, Vladimir. 11th-Ajar, Antilochus, Breemar, Glen

in

THE VOICELESS PRESSURE OF ASIA,

POWER OF THE RELIGIOUS MOTIVE.

THE FREIGHT MARKET.

in their freight circular, dated the 9th Messrs. Lamke & Rogge of Hongkong inst state

tempt owners.

have been

doing for "regular" liners and 7 cents can From Saigon to this there is very little

he nothing in the way of chartering until be taken as nominal quotation.There will the now crop is available for export purposes. total 502,496 tons as compared with 623,137 Rice exports during this season amount to same period last year.

"I

am_thy Father's Spirit."-HAMLET. BLACK

WHISKY.

AND WBITE

GARNER, QUELCH & Co.,

TALIPHONE 636.

SOLE AGENTS.

VAN

HOUTEN'S COCOA

PURE, SOLUBLE,

EASILY DIGESTED,

HIGHLY NQURISHING. Cheap: Because a little goes a long way. The Standard Cocoa of the World.

TRY IT!

As a precaution against the constant risk of infection, remember that washing with

CALVERT'S

No. 5 Carbolic Soap

is a healthy habit, for either personal-use_or household purposes and it is not expensive.

Local Dealers tell it. Maker-F. C CALVERT & CO., Manchester, England.

“LOOK ALIVE!”

Is one of the many caspal overy day fajanctions wherein turks much annoticed widom. The man who looks albre is always and everywhere accesstil. Is business it is the "live" man who gets to the top: to society it is the active, gracines, agreembla perton wisa lá stönt razemffer in the domestic circio it is the cheerful member who most completely wins and holds our affection. There jors look alive! It you are suffering from anything which robe you of your brittby alertness attend to the trouble at once and dant rest until a cura fa sty fected. If you suspect that dya papsta or say disordered state of the stomach, tyer, or bowels, is tapping your vitality, it is certain that without delay, you should

TAKE

BEECHAM'S PILLS.

Sold averywhere in boxes, prico P₫. (36 pilis)., 1/i\ (66 pills) and 2/9 ((G3 pilis).

experienced for the growing crop, but much depends on whether good cainfall will con-

NEW CROP Favourable weather has been

tinue well into November.

JAPAN CROP:-According to a preliminary estimate 5 per cent of the Rice erop has been destroyed by the typhoon which swept over the Southern half of the Central Island

periencing difficulty in securing, tonnage The North reports that charterers are ox- after so many of the outsiders taken place in all the nations of Western taken up on time-charter by the South, and Europe and the allied race of North regular liners at the moment having all their America and Australasia. The way wal work cut out to handle regular business, avon led by France, where the births barely coal freights Moji/Shanghai at $1.80 do not equalled the deaths, while Germany was now following the other countries after a period in which she seemed to be affected The forces at work are no longer centri teristic that, while England had suffered

of 4,679,166 tons must now be reduced to to a less degree. It was perhaps charac

on 22nd of September, and the first estimate fugal. They are centripetal, Australia for 46 years a diminution is the birth-

7,206,3 tons. is feeling the voiceless pressure of Asia, rate and in the quality of the population, She is erecting a human bulwark along and taken no special notice thereof,

reduction of crop will be about 10 per cant. quarters it is believed that the eventual In many well informed her northern littoral. She is commencing Prussia had already appointed a com- to be conscious of her possible dosting in mission of enquiry, and intimated her the South Pacific. She is being affected intention of taking action drastic if

NEWCHWANG CANTON:-No fresh business New Chor-Latest reports from Saigon has been done during the last fortnight, and by the undercurrents of international amnecessary on their recommendations.

are to the effect that the weather continuea importors having booked sufficient tonnage bitions, and aspirations. Transcending

favourable for the crop, which is reported to ahead for loading before Newchwang becomes all these is her pride of race. She is Brí tish to the backbone.

be growing satisfactorily in the different ice-bound, no further chartering is probable Her sense of im- perialism is broad, based upon a reasoned the experience of France, and, indeed of drought planting was completed only about

In this connection: be pointed out that provinces, but it is stated that owing to this season. understanding. Her politica probably

one month later than usual and consequently been upon a very extensive scale and much TIMECHARTERS: Chartering has again logan, Kaga Maru, Teenkai, Voronclive in Great Britain. The development legislative rewards, on any scale likely to ensure best results the rainy season will advanced rates,

look a little kaleidoscopic to these who ansient Rome, showed that economic and Yorck, Ocean Monarch. 16th-Briegavia, of six smaller communities and their to be adopted in the near future, had but the yield, it is too early yet to give any tions from Japan point to a slightly easier Dardants, Glenesk, Liberia, Myrmidon, welding into a nation ought, however, little power to stay the plague of empty

need to be exceptionally prolonged. As to Coat Freights from Moji to this Indica- Prinz Idwig, Sardinia, Annam, Tenge to be proof of their general efficacy, while cradles. Maru, Africa, Rhesus.

reliable idea.

feeling, 20th-Persia, there is a growing sentiment on the main seemed effective with normal mankind in SALON/POLIPPINES: A couple of fixtures

The religious motive alone. Stevia, Thesus, reddo, Deike Bickmers, land in favour of forming an Austral- exalting the future wolfers, of the race have taken place on better terms than last $2.20 Newchwang/Amoy $3.35, Tsingtau/ 22nd Achilles, Benlarig, asian Commonwealth by uniting the sister above the temporary welfare of the in- paid, the rate advahoing from 35 cents to 37 Amoy $3.50, Port Courbet/Swatow $3. Caledonier, Inverclyde, to hand report Sicilia, Stentory Alesiu Tranquebat, land. Rehilla, Lars Erskine, 29th-Brasilia, When Mr. James Bryce, on a flying tainted stocks on the one hand and the sponsible production of children among Monmouthshire, Atreus, Pisa. 31st visit from the United States, invited Aus- close limitation of families among the there is a good crop and in Batangas the 1,057 tous not reg., has been sold on private Sardina November Ist Antenor,tralians to become partners in the Empire able and sound on the other. In these Machuan, Sumatra, Sydney. ath-Bellast month his words fell upon ready and questions, as in so many others, the sens gravia Benclench, Geylon, Indrasamka.sympathetic cars. Federation widened and temperate spirit of the Church of Lutzon, Menelaus, Moyune. 8th-Bulow, the horizon of our people. Farochialism England was of special value; that vid Hitachi Maru, Patroclus, Peiho, Pera. imperceptibly broadened into patriotism.

Empire.

Our British statemen are pledged to follow, was in very deed the almost as well-known to-day in every city, path of safety.

ARRIVALS AT HOME

November 8th-Sydney.

1

that the greatest rice-crop in the history of the Philippines is assured. In all districts

rice crop is now being harvested, and is n record breaker..

SAIGON/JAVA: Nothing doing....... JAVA OUTWARD-There was some inquiry heing chartered at 45 cents per picul.

BANGKOK-Regular liners have lately been getting full cargoes of the old stock.

......

FIXTUARS BRPORTED: Moji Hongkong.

Swatow/Amey $2.50/83.50 per ton,"

Size:The German str. Devawongse,

ternis.

CASUALITIES:-The German str. Loosok, -----1,020 tons not rag reported in our last issue as sold to local parties at 880,000 for rocks off Bankonwan Island while on her

1128

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BRONCHITIS

WEAK LUNGS

CATARRH

CONSUMPTION.

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY, No No 03

THERAPION price 9/10 leading

BLOU POISON, XUNTY. BLADDER, URINARY DISPAST POGARGES, WEAKNESS TILES SENU STAMP ADDRESS ENVELOPE FOR FREE BOOKLET to D. LE CLERO [PARIS DEFÓT IS RUE

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FASTING CURE, 175

20.HAVERSTOCK RUTAMUSZRAD, LORDOBER

love of country, love of kitsfolk, love of media the Church was by constitution for tonnage and we hear of several boats November delivery, has been wrecked on the NEW TORK DEPOTEAU, USTAWAN SIN FLORoul

way from Saigon to Cebu and is considered

a total loss.

THERAPIONE

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