1908-01-16 — Page 2

Shipping—Steamers.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY JANUARY 16 1908.

Entitation

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.

GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON;

STEAMERS

TO SAIL

Capt. F. Prosch

FOR

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS,}" ZIETEN",

ANTWERP and HAMBURG...

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) "KLEIST*agonia

and YOKOHAMA, Samarin

WEDNESDA

No. 1 Dock.

Longth inside 514 ft. Width of entrance, top 95 ft,; bottom 75 ft. Water on blocks, 27,5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours,

No. 2 DOCK.

Length inside, 376 ft. Width of entrance, top 80,5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 26.5 ft. Timo to pump out, 2 hours.

THESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectully, called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.

The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly and cheaply with work and a large stock of material is always' at hind, (plates and angles all baidg tested by Lloyds' surveyors).

Two powerful Twin Scrow Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of No00, 29th Jan., 1908, Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable

of lifting 35 tops,

Capt. Rud Meyer ümummi

About WEDNESDAY, 29th Jan, 1908.

MANILA, NEWGUINEA, BRIS- BANE, SYDNEY and MEL- BOURNE...

"PRINZ WALDEMAR "...........? THURSDAY,"

Capt. W. von Seader .......

Noon, 3oth Jau, 1908.

About FRIDAY,

7th Feb., 1998,

BORNEO

KUDAT and SANDAKAN

Capt. F. Sembil

Middle of February.

For further Particulars, apply to

YOKOHAMA and KOBE

PRINZ SIGISMUND" Capt. D, Lenz

NORDDEUTSCHER: LLOYD

MELCHERS & CO.;....

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

Hongkong, 16th January, 19c8

WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP

COMPANIES.

HONGKONG WUOHOW

THE Steamer

LINE

* LINTAN* and "SAN-UI?

SAIL FROM Honakona TwiCE A WEEK AND COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN 6 DAYS, These steamare bare Excellent Saloon Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity. THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS 15. VERY FINE AND EXHILARATING.

* For further information apply to—

Hongkong, zad November, 1907,

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTE, WEST RIVER BRITISH A.S. COMPANIES

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REGULAR HONGKONG-CANTON LINE OF

STEAMERS

OF THE

COMPAGNIE FRANCAISE DES INDES ET DE L'EXTREME ORIENT,

5.S. "PAUL BEAU," 1,900, tons, 14 knots,

AS. "CHARLES HARDOUIN," 1,900 tons, 14 knots.

་་་

The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the line. Departure from Hongkong at 9.30 .. (Saturdays excepted), Departure from Canton at 5.15 F.M. (Sundays excepted),

Then superb steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electre Light

and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent canine

The Company's Wharf is at the end of Wing Lok Street (Tram Station), Canton Agents—Mesir. E. Pasquet & Co. For further particulars, please apply to--

Bongkong, 5th April, 1907.

BARRETTO & CO.,

Agents.

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN

APAN LIJN.

REGULAR THREE WELLLY - SERVICE-

BETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA,, AND JAPAN,

Steamar.

From

TJIKINI TJIMAHI......

TJIBODAS...

TJILATJAP... TJILIWONG.

JAPAN

JAPAN

JAPAN

JAPAN JAYA

Expected an or about

First hall

Jan. First ball

First half Feb. First half Feb, First half Feb.

Will leave for

JAVA PORTS JAVA PORTS

JAVA PORTS

JAVA PORTS

| TJIPÁNAS

JAVA

Becond half

JAPAN

JAPAN

Feb,

On or about

First half Jsa, First, half

First half Feb. First half

Jan

Feb. First half

Feb.

Second half Feb.

The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and bava Accommodation for limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Gargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading.

For Particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to

Telephone No. 375,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

YORK BUILDINɑs, ist floor,

Hongkong, yih January, 1908,-

Bentistry.

TRIN TING. ENS

LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY:

STUDIO AT NO. 14; D'AGUILAR STRENT

BEASONABLE})

Dr. M. H. (HAUN,

"THE" LATIST ME

of the

RICAN SYSTEM

ISTRY

Steam Lanches of Steel, or Wood, Lighters, Steel Buildings and Rools, Bridge Work, and sil kinds of Machinery are made on the premises..

CHINESE

Frederick D. Cloud, studeat interpreter at. the Shanghai Coopsulate General, writes con caming native preserved I vegetables and masts

in ChiassoND

Tornips, several varieties of cabbage and - seaweed are often prepired for winter use by giving them a coat of salt and drying in the sun. A vegatable resembling cabbage is sometimes dried in the sun without salt and pul away in shallow baskets antil ready for use. They have away also of making a kind of sauerkraut very much an Americans do. The treatment of coriain vegetables in this way is a common | practice, sta

The best native hams come from a region

Consignees,

"DARBER* LINE OEST

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, STEAMSHIPWRAY CASTLE FROM NEW YORK AND STRAITS

ONSIGNEESofCargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at thele risk into the Godowns of the longkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Ltd., a1 Kowloon, whence and/or from the Wharves delivery may be obtained.

•

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods: have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain. ing codelivered after the zih instant will be subject to renty.

All Claims against the Steainer must be

to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be

known as the Kishna districi, in Chaklang proste pred to the undersigned on or before the All broken, chafed, and damaged Goodi: are vince. The bams when dressed and ready for 15th prox, or they will not be recognized curing are carefully placed into vals. A

examined on the 20th instant, at 3 PM water and a sauce from the soy bean (the kind of pickle it then prepared of salt bon from which Worcestershire sauce is made), which is poured over the fresh hams, After the ham have been in the pickle ■ sufficient length of time they are taken out and hung up to dry, and occasionally, bat not often, smoked, when they are ready for the market. Sometimes a little nitrate of potash is also added to belp preserve them, but this addition is the exception. and not the rule, It is toport

o Fire Insurance has been effected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents Hongkong, 13th January, rook,

"THE

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"SHIRE* LINE OF STEAMERS, LTD, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

LONDON AND STRAITS. FROM MIDDLESBOROUGH, INTWERP,

HE Steamship. THE

*"FLINTSHIRE”.

Tenders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be ed that in the south hams are cured by means of an alkaline earth and comeson salt," but so gu'wanteed.

far as can be learned no earth of any kind is The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that employed in the middis and northern provincer.

The famour pickled eggs of China are pro-Captain G. C. Cundy, baving arrived from the of any part in the world,'

served with a pickle made of common mad above Ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby sulf, satiptire and soybean sauce, all mixed together. The eggs and crated with a plaster of the mixture and laid away until "forip" when they ate ready for the table. Prepared in this way they will keep for several months, “

Telephone: Nos. 876, 108, or 681. Telegrams, "Dook, Yoko'lama," Codes A. B. C. 4th and 5th Edt. Liebers, Bootte, "A, 1, and Watkins, Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905,

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IMPERIAL BREWING COMPANY,

LIMITED.

PURE CREAM BEER.

For samples and prices please apply to

Hongkong, 22nd October, 1907.

WI

EYES

General Agents.

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CENSUS OF SKAMEN.

Additional evidence that the umber of Brit tish born seamen in our mercantile marine has ceased to decline is furnished by the census of seamen taken in April of last year, of which the rault is published by the Board of Trade,

A decade ago the swamping of the British shifor by the employment of foreign crews shiestened to become a serious problem: In

informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignee risk and expanse..

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the 7 st last, will be subject to rent. ・・

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on TUESDAY, 21st inti, at 3 P.M.

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

SHEWAN, TOMES & Co...

Agents, de Bar

Hongkong, 15th January, 1908.

HAMBURG-ÄMERIKA LINIE.

"SAXONIA,"

the five years from 1891 tops for in THE B. A. L. Steamship the seamen of British nationality serving on vessels registered in the United Kingdom declised by 2,558, and in the ensuing five Captain Stebr, having arrived. Consignees -

in their Bills of Lading for countersignature.

Any Cargo impeding her discharge will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazard. aus Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Consignees' risk and expense.

WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO. years the reduction in numbers was as much of Carge are hereby requested, to send as 4,597. The present quinquennial census by the Undersigned and to take immediate brings the reassuring statement that there delivery of their goods from alongside, yo BARRETTO & CO.,

has been an incroksa of 7,665, and that the

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless number of British seamen has in fifteen years notice to the contrary be given before TO grown by $10. This latter figure seems ridl-DAY, DA JE MOTORE culously small when it is considered that in the same period the multiplication of foreign scamen, on British ships has amounted to 11,074, and of Lascars to 17,103) but it, is important, because it indicates a toro in the tide. It is under the headings of enginern, stewards, and officers that the change "bas oc- carred, and at any rate a partial explanation may be found in the greater number of steam fibing boats and the consequent increase of fishing boats registered under Part I; "of the Merchant Shipping Ast....

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Hotels.

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CONNAUGHT HOTEL,

HONGKONG.

A FIRST-CLASS EUROPEAN HOTEL, SITUATED IN THE Main Street neAR THE BANKS AND Principal OFFICES,. 31RICTLY EUROPEAN MANAGEMENT.

Wines and Spirits of the very Best Quality,

Bath to Every Room. :

Hot and Cold Water Throughout.

Hotel Launch Meets’all Steamers/

Special Terms for Tourists and Parties or I

FOR TEENS APPLY TO--

THE MANAGER & AGENT.

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HONGKONG.

NEEDS NO ADVERTISING.

World Wide Reputation.

The only First-class-Hotel in Kowloon, ;*

Most Charming and Popular Resort in the

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Electric Lights, Fans and Call Bella,

Bath Rooms siuched to Each Room, Telegraphic Address :

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Unrivalled for. Comfort and¡Cuisine. Thoroughly Up to Date with Every Modern

Luxury,

The numbers of British and foreignars on vessels registered in the United Kingdom at each of the four cansuses taken in the last filieen years may be seen from the following: table:

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's' amival hare after which data they cannot be recognised, g

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godawns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the atst inst, will be subject to rent. Men

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the asth inst, at 3' EMPRE No Fire Insurança has been affected.

TATA HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 14th January, Fond,

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

1891 1896. Vigo. 1906, British......... 137,567-575029 120,412 138,077, Foreiga 33,884-37.446 32,614 34,906 THE H. A. L. Steamship

2,322 37,911 33,610 38,425

Lascats

: Total

172,77 | 180,366 186,636 201,408 -For the most part the foreigners serve as petty cilicere, sailors, or firemen. The propor tions of ulicas amongst officers, which was never very large, has of late decreased coupl derably. In the coasting trade the foreign element is almost negligible; in the overseas trade the percentage of foreign officers com- pares thus with fiftendʻyears ago;" 189 Foreign Masters's p.

#

21 pc. 28 p. Males. 46°C Engineers 2·8 p.û.. 24 pc To return in the men rated in the sailor and scamen classes, in the home and coasting trades the percentage of foreigners has fallen since 1001 from 6.8 to 5.0, whilst in the over soas trade there has been scarcely any change in the relative proportions, the figures being cant in 1501 and 35:1 in 1906. As 26.6. per many as 54.3 per cent, of the crews of British sailing vessels are of förelga, nationality; bot sailing vessels are disappearing with such rapidity that the number of men employed by them has declined: since igal from 18,666, to 7,753.

~All these figures apply so'men on the books of British vesie's on April 4, 1936; and they therefore do not fully enumerate the seafaring population of the United Kingdom. It is cal. culated that probably 13 per cent, of the regular seamen were unemployed on that particular day, and if this assumption be correct the total number of man available for manning the mer chant ships of the United Kingdom is ari,Bon..

AN APPEAL.

"SIKIANG,"

Captain Habel, having arrived, Contiguses of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bill of Lading for countersignature, by the Undersigned and to take immediate delivery of their goods from alongside.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before TO- DAY, ALLA

Any Cargo Impeding her discharge, will be landed intothe hazardousand/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Limited, and stored at Cons | signeer' risk and expense.

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

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain- og undelivered after the 2nd ins will ba subject to rent in G

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the art inst, at 3 P..

No Fire Instirance has been affected.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE,

pas Hongkong Office. Hongkong, 15th January, rood. [130 NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN, IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL-LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES: THE Steamship

"PRINZ HEINRICH," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goode, with the exception landed and stored at their "risk" into "the of Opium, Treasure and Valuables, are being hazardous and for extra basurdous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Go

loon, whence dowa Company, Limited, delivery may be obtained:

Optional Cargo will be notics to the contrary be given before

unless

Billiards and Bowling Alleys, CNU HEVENT, CAINE ROAD, bags, most.WEDNESDAY, the sth of January, at Noon;:/

Moderate Terms and No Extras, Modem Management.

O. 2. OWEN,{}

Proprietos.

A

HOTEL CRAIGIEBURN,

SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Parts for their kind, patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for All kinds of NEEDLE WORK

Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Coffs

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods hays left the Godowns, and all Goodi mwait

andelivered alter the sand of January, will ing be subject to renta

to aby Godaware they All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are

All claime must reach pe Bal

thewill

and Collars renewod on old ones, true) examined on the wand of janua

Ladles and Children's Under-clothing, Chil, Fanuar dren's Dresses and all kinds of Embroidery Materials can be supplied, il regalted. Ple

The Superiorees/will also:DO 2011: Tralalt for BOY PAPER of old ENVELOPES to be mILLA

of the Poor

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