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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 182RD, `` 1999,

& CO., LIMITED.

DODWELL & CO.,

REGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON for, NEW YORK & BOSTON vla Suez

"DACRE CASTLE" "BOLTON CASTLE"

LLOYD

mading on or about 18th of Feb. sailing middle of Mar.

TRIESTINO.

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR LEVANT, BLACK SEA & DANUBE POETS.

FIUME, having been re-opened for traffic, cargo is also sccepted for this port on through Bill of Lading,

*. **TRAOIA"

74

11

FOR SHANGHAI

sailing beginning of Feb.

FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

TRACIA'

sailing on or about 2nd half of Fab. Passengers' Luggage can be insured at the Offer of the Agents.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.

IN

Balling from Colombia to South African Forte SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALOUTTA & COLOMBO, Through Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong.

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Limes apply to -

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents.

N. Y. K.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

ALILITES FROM HONAKUNG FURTHER PO AKTERATION,

VICTORIA, SEATTLE & VANCOUVER

Japan porte

复

"Through Bills of Lading issued to all Overland common Pointi FUSHIMI MARU

KATORI MARU (Nagaanki direct))

vis

Shanghai

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in U.8.A. and Canada. Wednesday, 8th Feb., 11 .. Saturday, 4th Mar, at 11a.m.

à

HONGKONG TRADE REPORT.

DULL MARKETS.

The fortnightly report of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce contains the following information:----

INDO-CHINA

STEAM İNAVIGATION COMPANY. LIMITED SAILINGS, SUBJEUT TO ALTERATION

TSINGTAO VIL SVATOW & SHANGHAI "WAISHING? ...Taes, HA PHONG T HOLLOW BANGKOK

SHANGHAI SWATOW MANILA

740

1

YOKOHAMA & Koan SANDAKAN. STRAITS & CALCUTTA ........

TAKBANG ** ... 12201

"HOPSANG'

Tues

*HANGSANG'...Tues,

24th Jan, D light,

9th Jan 10

24th Jan, 10 AM 24th Jan., Nona. gith Jan., 3 M.

YUENSANG*****, 24th Jazi., 5 PM.

"KWAISANG" -

MAUSANG

DOMESTIC SERVICE. MISTRESSES AND MAIDS CONFER

Mistresses and maids mat in conference on December 8th at the central office of the Girls' Friendly Society, Victoria street, Westminster.

Cunliffe Lady

Cotton Place Goods and Fancy Cotton occupied the chair and directed the dis Goods-Sale of Lenos, Poplius, Vene cussion with considerable tact. In the tians, and Black Drills have hean effected morning the difficulties of mistresses and at very low prices. Unimportant trans- servants were reviewed, and in the after actions in Grey and White Shirtings are noona suggestions for the solutions of also reported. The Seamen's strike is these difficulties were brought forward. having a detrimental effect on clearances, It was finally resolved by the conference; Cotton Yarn-The market ruled very CALOUTTA LINE:-This Lane affords regular asilings to Calcutta, Penang and

"That the question of making domestic quiet and practically no business was work a profession, with training, qualis transacted from first bands. Values, have fications, and status, is in the interests been nominally unchanged but inclined to of the community, and should therefore be on the casy side. be considered by the Girls Friendly No. 10s. 8159 to $194. No. 1

Quotations are:- Society Central Employment Committee $203. No. 168. $193 to $23. No. 208. in conjunction with members co-opted for $200 to $995. Arrivals 2,000 bates. the purpose, with a view to taking steps 100 bales. Shipmanta nil. Unsold stock to produce and put into effect a scheme 8,500 bales. Bargains 7,000 bales. which shall be used by the Girls' Friendly

Society and any other voluntary societies

willing to co-operate."

Salea

Year and the Seamen's strike, clearances, are very poor.

Wel 15th Jan., Noon FOOKGANG.. Wed., 28th Jan, 3 r.

Bingapore returning from Caloutta steamers prossed via Stradus and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai. All ateamors have eroellent passenger accommodation, are Atted with Electric Lighs and Face and carry a tally-qualifed Surgeon

BHANGHAI LINE Sailing approximately every three days outween Canton and sometimes calling at Bestow Through tickets on Northern and Yangtze Ports via Shanghal,

BORNEO

Bord through Bill of Lading are issued to

bo

LINE-A weekly service is maintained with Maulls by vessels with good

MANILA WOOLLENS. The market is still dull. With the approach of the China Now HAIPHONG LINE-Basinger scomodation, sailings from both ports avery Fridare

approximately weekly for passenger cargo, calling

At Holbow when inducement offers LINE-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 tona steamers &. HISANG and VAUJANG both stemmers aving crollout passenger accommodation. Cargo taken on hrough Buls of lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan Tawao and Lahad Datu

bas

Sundries.Some small business found the books at $8 to $8.40 per case for fair average sizes. No fresh business reported.

PRINCESS MARY'S ENGAGEMENT.

TIENTSIN

LINE --A regular service is run from March to November between LINE-A weekly servios is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok

Hongkong and Tientsin, calling at Welhalwet and Chefs, vis Swatow, by ive steamers fitted with up-to-date passenger. sccommodation?

1

CALOUTTA

LINEI

54 FOOKSANG" will be despatched on or abent Wednesday, 25th Jan., at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE. PENAN«[y

& CALCUTTA,

گرم

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, POKT SWET TENHAM, MADRAS and 'DUTCH EAST INDIES,

Mrs. Piggott (Committee of House wives) opened the discussion. She attri

Raw Cottons-No business has trans buted the dearth of good servants topired and values are nominally unaltered domestic service being considered unsuit as follows:-Indian grades at 824 to $30. able for bright, intellectual girls, It was Chinese grades at $30 to 837 per picul suggested that maids disliked being called Metals-With the exception of report- by their Christian names; that the ed sales of some 1500 tons of Steel Plate domestic worker stood in a class by her Cuttings at 83.30, very hittio bustness has BANGKOK self, and that other workers did not with bean moving. Steel Bars are on offer at to associate with her. (Hear, hear.) Mis $4.30 to $4.75, but buyers hold off, even tresses also wished to know how far ab theas exceptionally cheap prices. domestic workers suffered from loneliness, Large, quotations are still to come for and how many opportunities should be ward, which will arrive alter contract) given to their friends to visit them. I data Wire Nails 13 are on offer int Personally, she had had servants whoses to #9.10, without finding buyer. Tin friends began to visit them at ten in the plates are quoted at 89, but market is morning, and others followed in a pretty dull.. regular sequence throughout the day. Flour. No change. Stock: About Mrs. Greenwood, who described herself 1,010,000 sacks. Quotations: American as enjoying the services of her seventh Patent. $3.60 per sack; American Straight, cook and fifth "parkourmaid in fourteen $3.85 per sack; American Cut-off, 89.90 years, thought business girls wero je per sack; Shanghai Flour, $3.15 per sack;" lous of domestic servants becuase they Australian No. 1, 89.00 per sack. could save money. Many maids did not care to admit that they were domestic servants because the working-classes did not approve of the way rich people spent money on large houses and many ser? Vilnis Some employers, were incon- siderate and selfish; they would take. everything given and gave little in return but the actual money wage. Loss of freedom was a real grievance. Masy girls, on entering domestic service felt almost as if they were going into prison, The Australian newspapers make a The time was perhaps coming when maide minent feature of Princess Mary's engage- would be in the house only during work | ment. They are warmly congratulatory, ing hours, and would live in bostels and especially over the departure in clubs. Home life must be simplified, alliance outside the Royal family. Tha modern nids must be employed. Mis Sydney Daily Telegraph, commenting on, tresses must show that they themselves the intimate association of the British like work. She had known people stand Royal family with the people, remarks: in their own hall and wait for a servant If we in Australis needed evidence that to come and open the door. (Laughter.) this is the best and anest relationship If a girl was nice enough to have in one's which can exist between a ruling family bouse she was nice enough to be interest and the people we had an illustration in ed in, and mistresses should occasionally the character and conduct of the Prince take their maids to concerts, bazaats, of Wales during his visit. National and entertainments. (Hear, hear.) initimacy with the people gives the Royal Miss Thring considered the objection of house of Great Britain its strongest as- servants to being called by their Chrissurance of stability. There is a world of difference between the king of a peopic and a people's king. It is hardly sur prising, in view of the scrapping of the old trappings of separation, that English princesses are seeking husbands among their own people. It would not outrage public sentiment if the Prince of Wales were to follow the same course. time is ripe for repealing the Royal Marriage Act, which is now palpably worn out.

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP vis Singapore, Penang,tian names was quite natural. She knew

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

MISHIMA MAKU

BADO MARU...

KITANO MARU

+4

HAMBURG, via LONDON & ROTTERDAM.

24th Jan, at Noon. 11th Fob, st 11... 17th Fob

Tuceday,

Saturday, Friday,

=Tuesday,

7th Feb.

Thursday,

9th Feb.

LIVERPOOL Via MARSHILLĒS.

MATSUMOTO MARU

MALACOA MARU

M

a middle-aged housekeeper who was call ed Jaac by everybody in the village, and she did not like it. In some houses it was customary to call, a girl by the name of a servant who had preceded her. Mazy girls, especially young once, disliked being compelled to wear. black dresses...

A COOK'S TROUHLAS.

Miss Thirza Smith, a cook, agreed that domestic service was not on a sound

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday basis. Mistresses complained of high

Island, Townsville & Brisbane. AKI MARU TANGO MARU

*** Tuesday, --Tuesday,

Middle of Feb.

14th Fob, at 11 a.. 21st Feb, at 11 am

NEW YORK, VIA PANAMA & CUBAN PORTS.

TAKETOYO MARU

NEW YORK vis Suez.

BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS &

KANAGAWA MABU...

BOMBAY via Bingapore, Penang

WAKASA MARU

BUENOS AIRES

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang

TATSUNO MARU PENANG MARU

NAGASAKT

TANGO MARU

***

End of Mar.

and Colombo,

+

Tuesday, 31st Jan, Bangoon. Wednesday, 25th Jan. Saturday, 11th Feb.

KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

SHANGHAI, KOHE & YOKOHAMA.

MAYKBASHI MARU (calling Moji) KAKO MABU

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further information apply -- For Telephone No. 292 & 193

CAPR.

Friday, 17th Feb., at 11 am

Wednesday

1st Feb. Thursday 2nd Feb., at 11

RAISHA.

NIPPON YUSEN KAMY, Manager

YAMASHITA KISEN K

KAISHA.

(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co. Lro:)

REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

BETWEEN

KEELUNG, HONGKONG & HAIPHONG.

Sailing from Hongkong.

FOR HAIPHONG via Holhow & Pakhol

FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & &moy

For further particulars, please apply to-- Branch Office,

No. 37, Bonham Strand, Wes.

Tel. No. 155.

S. MITARAL

AGENT, Top Floor, King's Ballding Tel. No. 140,

""

www

AUSTRALIAN SATISFACTION...

The

wages, and 50 per cent." of the girls did

EYE COMFORT not receive good or sufficient training means better health and better results On the other hand, mistresses thought they could do their own catering and from your work, and if your eyes require doubled the troubles of the cook. glasses you have careful and expert (Laughter.) They also bought house examination in fitting the proper correo hold utensils which wasted the cook's

time. Much misery was caused among tion. Eye comfort requires also just so servants by mistresses having favourites. expert care in the manufacture and If she had her way there would be no adjustment of your glassen. You will betweenmaids, who were often frightened find it worth while to consult a reliable. of both the housemaid and the cook.

There ought to be a certain period of the firm, devoted exclusively to optical work; day which each servant could call her over ten years experience in the Colony. own. Many good girls had suffered You will find no better equipment say through mistresses spoiling their "refer ences.

where than in the offee and factory of Mr. Elvin (National Union of Clerks) The Hongkong Optical Co., successors ta suggested that servants should have a union, so that they could with their Clark, & Co., Manufacturing and Re- mistresses, determine the conditions of fracting Opticians, located in 53, Queen's their employment.

Boad Central-Apvi..

Lady Askwith. thought that if news papers did not contain so much about the servant question the improvement which had been going on for twenty years would continue more rapidly. She had once heard a woman say that she paid agiri for the whole of her time and had a right to have it. No one dared to say that now. (Hear, bear.)

Miss Knight-Bruce hoped that they would succeed in making a standard mis tress. (Cries of "And a standard maid.") The ideal of ble had changed; it was now the ideal of service. But the old ideal was to make enough money to be able to do nothing. Why, the old ideal bad reached the woman who said, "My girl's a perfect lidy; she does nothing at home." (Laughter.) She had also been told, "Do you think, I would demean myself by taking up tea to ugly ladies in bed?? And it was impossible to be lieve in the dignity of service when it was buried underground and only looked out upon a blank wall. She desired that the status of domestic servants should be improved.

The motion was then agreed to.

THE MAIL ROUTE.

FOR SALE.

Large Stock of Now

and Second-hand

[beg

GALVANIZED STEEL DRUMS

(capacity 50 & 100 gallons)

Price very moderate, Apply to KWONG SANG HONG LTD.

O. Box 390, Hongkong

DAIRY FARM

BUTTER.

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NEWS

OWING TO TALL, IN PRICES

in Australia

we have reduced our "DAISY" BUTTER to 81.10 per Ik

'DAIRYMAID"

F 1,00

FURTHER REDUCTION ARE

ANTICIPATED, A

Italian hopes to secure resumption of the mail service via Brindisi were voiced at the end of December by Signor Erufe. rida, Mirister of Poste, in a long reply in the senate in which be denied that the British Government had definitely declar- ed their intention of abandoning. Brin disi. He pointed out that the agreement for service tid Marseilles expired in 1929 and declared that the Bindisi-Hodani railway communication was now excellent market Dock labourers had undertaken in the event of a strike that work in connection with the mail boats would be unaffected.

The above two inauda lave no rivals on the

· THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD. STORAGE CO. LTD

For Freight or Passage apply to

* No 215.

Jardine. Matheson & Co., "Lád,”

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGER"

AND

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE. OUTWARDS.

2

Vesoul

MY. "GLENADE" M.V.." GLENAMOY" M.V." GLENTARA "

Vetel M.V. "GLENAVY" M.V. "GLENLUGE'

GLENSHANF

S.S.

140

HOMEWARDS.

D

Dae Hongkong

24th Jan.

81st Jag. 15th, Feb.

Leaves Hongkong"

Dischargi 29th Je GOL, Lordon, BorZEBDAY, & HAMBURG, 10th Feb. LoxDON, BOTTARDAX, ANTWERP & HAMBURG 20th Feb. Undoa, MARSEILLES, LONDON & HAMBURG

Movements are subject to change without notice. For freight or further particulars please apply to

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. The Glen Line, Ltd;, Auının.

Telephone No. 115 rab-ez, 13 and 8636

Cabia Address E

Kawakcism, Keba

Bentley's A.1.0, 5in Mi,

and Boot's Oɔde

KAWASAKI KISEN

10

Telephone BasamİY

1244/8989.

(KAWASAKI STEAMSHHF CO.)

KAISHA

CAPITAL PAID-UP! ・・・ 120.000.000

Presidents Mr. Y. Kawasaki.

Vice-President: Mr. K. MazsUKAWA. Managing Director: Mr. Masta. ÄXU -

Comy Kazam on hand a Large Number of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS KEADY FOR

CHARTERS of all descriptions.

The following are comprised in the 'Company's Fleet 2000

Eleven steamers of 9,200 tons each dosdweight.

And under the Company's Management

Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight esch. Two steamers of about 6.400 tons daadweight esch. (Belonging to the Exwamki Dockyard Co, Ltd.)

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For Charter Bat...and 1

other particulars apoly to the

KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA„" ·

Bo,&*B KOBL

THE NEW FARMUM REM KOY.

THERAPION NË, 17 THERAPION NⱭ. THERAPION No 3

No. 1 for BLAME OKSLUTS. Ke, à Zur hilabet Skin Dinesena, Ko, a far chovate Wankane BOLD ST TRADIMO PRENOTA FANNE JE SINGARI JA,

ON BALE

›OUND VOLUMES of the HONGKONG WEEKLY PRESS, January to J

Bo

1921

With Invar, iride #7,150,

On sale at the Hongkong Daily From Ollion.