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Mails.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY OCTOBER 26 1908.

Intimation.

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.

·BREMEN.

IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINE,

FOR

STEAMERS

SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE) "PRINz Ludwig "

Rad YOKOHAMA

NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON,

· { ANTWERP and HAMBURG ...

MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA,】 SAMARAI, BRISBANE, SYD, NRY and MELBOURNE

Capt. F. v. Binzel wimana)

PRINZESS ALICH"...... Capt. G. Rott vála

"PRINZ SIGISMUND

Capt. D: Lens

No. 1 DOCK.

Length Inside 514 ft. Width of entranos, top 95 ft.;:bottom 75 1t. Water on blooks, 87.5 ft. Time to pump out, # hours,

TO JAIL

TH

About WEDNESDAY,

4th November.

WEDNESDAY,

NooE, 4th November,

THURSDAY,

5 PM 5th November.

KUDAT: and SANDAKAN....icrosta

BORNEO***.................. Capt. F. Sonibill

Middle of November,

For farber Paniculars, apply to..

NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD.

Hongkong, 23rd October, 190&

MELCHERS & CO.,

GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.

No. 2 DOCK.

Length inside, 376 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5.ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blocks, 88.5 ft. TimeTM to pump out, 8 hours.

*HESE DOCKS are copreniently situated in Yokohama barbour and the attention of Captains and Engineers is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and 'Machitory of every description.

MANNING THE MERCHANT. SKRPICH.

· THE SHIPOWNERS' REPLY. It is unfortunate, writes a correspondent who is closely in touch with shipowners, that when the British pation is favoured with information about our mercantile marice it is frequently unreliable and incorrect. According to Mr. H À, Ridsdale's article in the Pall Mall' Gazette of the toth inat, little seems to have been done 10 improve the status of the average sailor in the merchant service since the death of Samuel Pl mioll, which is a surprising statement. It is evident that the "closs Inquiry into affairs as they at present stand," which is recommended, has not been carried very far, or it would surg ly have resulted in some different conclusions to those enumerated in the article in question. In the first place, the proportion of British seamen employed in the mercantile marido as compared with foreignnm is easily ascertain- Gyurcs audusily in the Return on the Progress able, because the Board of Trada publish the

of Merchant Shipping, Table No. 25, C13n‡ÃΤ2

The plant and tools are of recent patterns for dealing quickly, and cheaply with working the actual figures, and there is consequent- and a large stock of material is always at band, (plates and angles all being tested by If no need for rough estimates and imaginary Lloyds' surveyors), 17

deductions. There were 188,340 British per- sons employed in 1906 in the merchant sovice, 18,083 foreigners, exclusive 'of 44,367 Lascars and Asiatics, making in all 270,874 persons.

As there are no fewer than 185,340 British subjects employed therein, being an increase Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Ligoters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge of 7,80 on the 1405 figures, the estimate of a Work, and all kinds of Machinery are made on the premises.

possible 44,000, seamen, excluding frames and

Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels 'in or out 0 Dock, and for taking Saliing Vonnels in or-oct of the bay. "The Boating derrick is capable of lifting 15 tons,

Tonders will be made up when required and the workmanship and material will be awards, is calculated to convey a wrong im: pression as to the supposed preponderance of guaranted.

foreigpers. The percentage of foreigners is The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that 20.22, which is by no means excessive for a ship. of any port la the world;

Telephone: Nos. 876, 506, or 881.

Telegrame, "Dook, Yokohama,” Codes A, B, C. 4th and 5th Edt.

Liebers, Bontts, ∙A. 1, and Watkins.

Yokohama, May 23rd, 1905.

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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

FRENCH MAIL LINES.

FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL

TO and FROM JAPAN via SHANGHAI.

JAVA

Shipping-Steamers.

CHINAJAPAN LIJN

REGULAR THREE-WEEKLY SERVICE

BETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.

FOR

STEAMERS

TO BAIL ON.. SHANGHÁI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA „„TOurang.

Lancelio..,2614, Oct., PM. MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ............ CALEDONIEN .........Martio ......17th Oct, at 1:P.M. SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA,ÁRMAND BERIC „Goizanet..... 9th Nov., P.,

·MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS'... POLYNESIEN .......... Broc... 10th Nov., at i P,.

CAPTAINS

Steamer,

From

Expected on

Will leave for

or about

TJIFANAS

JAPAN

TJIKINI

JAVA

Transhipment on the Co's Steamers at Singapore for Batavin't at Colombo for Calcutta, | TJILATJAP... Bombay and Australia; at Port Said for the Levani, Constantinople and Black Saa.

7!

TJIMAMI

TJILIWONG

JAYA

JATA

JAPAN

Second half Oct. Second half Och Second half Oct.

- First ball

Nov. .First half Nov,

JAVA:

JAPAN

SHANGHAI

SHANGHAL

JAVA

Through Tickets to London via Paris from £27.10 up to £71,10. 20 hours' failway from Marsaltles to Londen. ...

Interpreters most passengers at thele arrival in Marsețiles.

For further particulars, apply to

Fougkong, 13th October, 1998.

P. NALIN,

ACTING AGENT,

QUEEN'S BUILDINGS,

_[14.

CHARGEURS RÉUNIS.

FRENCH STEAMSHIP Co.-HEAD OFFICE: PARIS.

ALL ROUND THE WORLD LINE.

Outward: ANTWERP, DUNKIRK, LA PALLICE, MARSEILLES, GENOA, NAPLES, COLOMBO,-via-SUEZ, SINGAPORE, HONGKONG,"CHIN", WANTAŬ (Peking, Tientsin), KOBE, YOKOHAMA,

GENOA TO HONGKONG 18 30 DAYS. NAPLES

29

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Unique opportunity to make a tour in 'North-China and Japan with the Greatest Speed

Sa ety and Comfon,

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Transpacific: VICTORIA (B.C.), VANCOUVER, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO.

Connecting with the Canadian Pacifle Railway.

FREIGHT to OVERLAND

-PASSENGERS to OVERLAND and EUROPE)-

_via_VANCOUVER.. YOKOHAMA-VANCOUVER.3 DAYS.

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**LONDON and PARIS ...26

Homeward: MEXICO, RIVER PLATE, BRAZIL, LA PALLICE, LIVERPOOL,

VIA MAGELLAN STRAITS,

Proposed Sailings :

CORSE.......................26th Nov. 1

AMIRAL MAGON......11th Jan, 1909.

I New Twin Screw 16,000 Tons, displacement, tat class accommodation, splendidly

equipped with single berth cables,

Intermediate class and rates of passage.

All round the world ticket by these boats, &c.

For further Particulars, apply to

Hongkong, 21st October, 1908,

P-NALIN, FRENCH MAIL OFFICE,

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WEST RIVER BRITISH STEAMSHIP.

COMPANIES.

Steamers

THE S

HONGKONG W□OⱭOW LINE:

LINTAN" and "SAN-UI,"

JAIL FROM HONGKONG TWICE A WEEK AND 'COMPLETE THE ROUND TRIP IN.4 Days. These steamers have. Excellent Salobs Accommodation, and are Lighted Throughout by Electricity, THE CLIMATE ON THE WEST RIVER DURING THE WINTER MONTHS 18 VERY FINE AND EXHILIRATING. For fenther information apply to--

HE BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

"AGENTS": WEST RIVER BRITISH 8.3. OQMANPIES

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"On or about

Second ball Oct. Second half.

Oct... Second hal·

Oct First half Nov. First ball Nov.

The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and bare Accommodation for a limited number of Saloon Passengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Porta on through Blits of Lading.

For Particolars of Freight and Passage, apply to

Telephone No. 375.

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

YORK BUILDINGS, 18: Hoor,

Hongkong, 14th October, 1908's

MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.

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FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG, CANTON AND KOUANG-SI;

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

BS. "CHARLES HARDOUIN, 1,900 tonų, 14 knots.

The speediest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the line,

Departure from Hongkong at 10 P.M. (Saturdays excepted) Departure from Canton at 5.15 P.M. (Sunday's excépted).

ping trade which is so fargely employed in the Conveyance of the foreigners' produce and com modities. Most of the long-standing.grievances on which such stress is laid 'bave been dealt with long ago, and although it is idle to prejend that further improvements are impossible, mach has been done to remedy any unsatisfactory service conditions, for scamon and firemen in

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Public Company

THE D IRY FARM COMPANY,

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.",

THE TWELFTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

10 the above Company will be held at the Hongong, TO-MORROW, the 27th October Company's Town Office, a Lower Albert Road, 1908, at Noon, for the purpose of presenting the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts to 31st July, 1908,

The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company?! October, 1908, both days inclusive. will be CLOSED from the 13th to the 27th

By Order,

S. A, SETH,

Secretary, D Hongkang, 16th October, 1998 471914

Intimations.

SWATOW DEAWN WORK, COMPANY,

38, WELLINGTON STREET.

Dealers to all kind of

HAND-MADE DRAWN CHINESE LINEN, GRASS CLOTH, &, all of the best quality;

2

ALSO

SWATOW "BEST PEWTER-WARE

OANTON EMBROIDERY and CHINESE LACES,

all from the best Franch patterns.

HONGKONG AND SWATOW..

Hongkong, 10th Cietnhér, 1on

British vessels. The better dietary which ship-PEAK TRAMWAYS COMPANY,

owners are advised to adopt is already in exist eoco os a compulsory scale, on all sea-going vessels, as the outcome, of, an. Advisory Com- mittee's deliberations, on which the semen's interests were well protected.

I do not think that certain prominest, pailia. mentarian and other advocates will quite relish the suggestion that sailors have had "few, if any, champions inside or out of Parliament since Samuel Plimsoll died." The world has, after all, moved since that deplorable, but distant, event, and the shipping trade has not stood still, as a brief reference to the recently revised and extended Marchant Shipping Acts, and some Blue-books, would clearly establish. The payment of wages at the end of the voy. aze is not attended with the drawbacks alleged and is undoubtedly a distinct advantage to the seamen who are paid off at a shipping office: With an independant official to act as arbitrator and settler of all, disputes between the master and the men. Advances are regularly made against wages, either to seamen in foreign ports or by allatment letter to his relatives at kams, or by both methods; and any attempt to de. fraud seanses by passing ff depreciated money at the face value, if attempted, would certainly not be allowed by the Marine Superintendents at the end of the voyage..

The terms of the agresment under which the men ate engaged are invariably those of the recognized form prepared by the Board of Trade, and the conditions are fair and reason. able in view of the nature of the work to be. done, No Britisk seamen are employed at such a wage as i po month. Untrained youths or inexperienced greenhoras may start at £2 108, per month, all found, on the ordin | Ary seaman rating, but the average wage of the qualified seaman and 'fireman is nearer to £4 10s, per month, and foreigners are paid the same wages when shipped in British poris—it | is not their cheapness, but their better training, discipling, and sobriety which have commend. ed, them to their actual employers, the British shipmaster and chief engiaper respectively.

to the experimental stages of the Workmen's Compensation Act the seaman was excluded for sufficient reasons, which it is needless to recapitulate because the exclusion no longer obtains, and the advocacy of this "raform" is therefore a needless measure. And it may be | that some of the other "gritvánces' and disad- vantages associated with the Merchant Service might prove equally unfounded if they were disclosed. But surely it is a curious way to encourage parents and guardians of loafing youths at the seaporiu ́to iurn their attention to the merchant service by adducing such non. existenį grievances as those referred to instead

These superb steamers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Lighief taking the trouble to ascertain the actual and Fans and wore specially built for this trade. Excellent cuisine.

The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and its berth in Canton opposite Shameco.

For further particulars, please apply to the COMPANY'S OFFICE at Shameen, Caston,

ar to their Agents BARRETTO & CO., Hongkong.

Hongkong, 9lb October, 1908,

Hotel.

HOTEL PLEASANTON,

No. 17, Water Street, Yokohama.

FIRST CLASS PRIVATE HOTEL--Newly Opened and Furnished Suites or Single Rooms, Private Baths, Modern Sanitary Fittings, Electric Light, Up-to-date Appoint meats, Renowned Culane, Dark Room for Photographers, Charges Moderate.

Hongkong, 16th July, 190k

HENRY LUTZ,

MANAGE

conditions of service in the Mercantile Marine. The fact that sense 270,007 persons-free !men-are now employed in British ships might have given pause to any idea that the life in devoid of compensations and is full of hard- ships which could be remedied if British shipowoes were not "devoid of any laten spark of patriotism," Is it conceivable that one half of the great British fleet of 'some seventeen and a half million toas' re- gister could really 'be worked by 18,000 foreign stamen? What are the other 8 per cent, of British seamen doing who are simultaneously

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7:00 am.

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LIMITED.

TIME TABLE

WEEK DAYS.

*7.35 am, to 9.30 B.tt. ......,Every 10 minutes 1.30 am. 10 12.43 pm....Every 15 minuter. 9.30 am, to 11.00 a.m.“.....Every 15 minutes 12.45.p.m. to 5 pm....Every to minutes. 1.15 p.m. to 1.45 p.m. ...Every 15 minuter 2.45 pm. 10° 235 pm........Every 10 minutes. 1.15 p.m. 10 3.00 p.m....Every 15 minutes, 3.30 pm to 5.00 pɛm... Every 15 minutes. p.m. to 800 p.m....Every 10 minste,

8.45 p.ta: and 9 pm, $45 pm to 11.15 DM NIGHT CARE

overy half hour. SOODAYS 8.00 am to 9.00 am. ¡. Every 15 minutes 9.00 am to 9.30 am, ... Every 30 minutes 9.30 am, lo ta. 30 a.m.“ „„„Every 15 minutes 19.30 am to 11.00a.m....Every to minutes. 11:45 am to 12,00 noon...Every 15 minuten. ILOG Noon to 1.00 pm....Every to minutes,

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1.00 p.m. to 5.00p.m....Every 15 minutes?! 4.00 pm, to 6:00 pm....Every/te ̈mlootes. 6.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m....Every minutes. 7.00 pm to 8.00 p.m....Every av minute? - NIGHT CARS on Week Days.

SATURDAYS.

hatta cara at 3.15 9.31, 17,30 p.m. and 11.45 pm. SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement' at thi Company's Offico, ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Des Vœux Road Central,"

JOHN D. HUMṛHREYB- SON,

General Managers. Hongkong, ath Inns, 1007 ·

THIRAFION MAY NOW ALSO BE OBTAINED IN DRAGER (Tasteless) Form. THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY

TRADE

THERAPION

MARE.

· This successful and highly popular comedy, usod in Le Conurenial Hospitals by Xicond, Rosian, Jobert. Vel, wu and others, combine all the desiderata to be kous'; 'n a medicine of the kind, and surpasses every- thing testo employed.

THERAPION No.1%

ably short time, often a few days only, manoves all diar charges, effectually superaoding infections, the use of which does irreparable harm by laying the foundation of stricture and other serious diseases. fad mentory, plies, irritation of the lower bowel, cough, bronchitis, Kathma, and some of the more trying complaints of this kind, it will be found astonishingly edicacions, affording prompt relied wkernasherwell tried remedies have been powerless..

for!

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of blood, scurry, pirople.. spots, blotches, palni and zwel- ling of joints, sondary, juptoms, gout, rheumatisme. and all dimases for which it has been too much a farzion to employ merozy, sarasparilla, &c., to the destruction of außerore teeth and guls of both. Thispreparation puribes the whole systems through the blood, and tho roughly eliminates all poisonous matter from the body.

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ton, sleeplessness, and all distressing consequences of dissipation, worry, overwork" onely error, endem. Ro. IE. pre surprising power in restoring, strength and “Vigone to those suffering from enervating influences of

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zone' the world,, Pder in Begland 18 per pacîn *. trade ing, over which of the three stmbers requeď, 22 and adserne showw Trade Stark, which is a facsimile of

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Pole hy alf Chemists.

Dentistry.

THIN TING,

employed in the same vessels?.. It may be a LATEST METHODS OF DENTISTRY,

big subject, this proposed re-anglicising of the British. Mercantile Marine, but no useful purpose can be served by disregarding the | facts of the case an ascertained by the appoint, ed authority, the Board of Trade, And those facts clearly disprove the alleged preponder- |ance of foreigners in British vassals,

THET

COLD STORAGE.

'HE HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,

LTD. bave com 40,000 Cubic, fent of, GOLD STORAGE availabla si East POINT. Stores will be Open at to A, and 4 PM dally, Sunday excepted, to receive and deliver puishable goodsna,

WM PARLAIN, Man2, Manager, pl Hongkong, nand Jürme, 1905)

STUDIO AT NO. 14, D'AQUILAR STREET,

REASONABLE: FEIL

Consultation Fros.. Hongkong, 20th June, 1904.

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