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W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,

ENGIN ER & SHI- BUILDERS, HOE UN KOWLOON.

HARBOUR EPAIRS Call Flag "L"

Sole Agents for 'KELVIN MOTORS."

Motors from 12 B.H.P. to 30 D.H.P. now-in stock also spare parts.

Works

Tel. K21 Manager...

K.329 Harbour Engineer K.120. Works Supt.

K410 Teleg "SEYBOURNE

DECLINE IN POLYGAMY.

HONGKONG QUOTED IN

THE HONGKONG TE

CONSIGNERS

INTERVIEW. Polygamy, we are told, is dying out in Persia, owing partly to the expense of keeping more wives than one and partly to the in- creasing influence of Western ideas and standards.

A similar decline in the practice has been for some time hoticeable fin other countries. "Breally the Christian Church insists on mo: 0- camy" Mr. Frank Leawood, one of the foreign secretaries of the London Missionary Society, said to a representative of The Obser- cer,bat in its dealings with uncivilised races it will some- times allow a man to come into the Church who has two wires. The practice differs; it is one of the disputed points. On the other hand, if a man once in the

ONDAY JUNE

CONFIGNED

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, "BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS,

OCEAN STEAMSHIP QO., LTD. JOCEAN STEAMSHIP CO, LTD.

AND *CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. Consignees per Co's Steamer

TALTHYBIUS."

are hareby notified that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will lie at Consignee's risk. The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godown on and after 3rd Juna:

Optional cargo will be landed, unless notice has been given | prior to steamer's arrival..

AND A M CHINA MUTUAL STRAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD.

Consignees por Co's Sisamer

"AGAPENOR ́TM

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

CONSIGNETA

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO

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A&WEST HEPBURN" From ANTWERP, MIDDLESBRO, having arrived. from San Fran-

LONDON and STRAITS,

oisco and ports on Jars 6th, 1970, consignees are hereby notified

their thai The Steamship

cargo is being *BENVORLICH:"

landed at their risk into the haranlons Godowns of the Hong- Consignees of Cargo are hereby kong and Kowloon Wharf and ate hereby notified that the Cargo, will be discharged into Holt's informed that all Goods are being Godown Company, Limited and Wharf, Kowloon, where it will landed at their risk into the stared at consignees risk.

The hazardous and/or extra hazardous į All broken, chåfed sod damag- lie at Consignea's risk, Cargo will be ready for delivery Godowns of the Hongkong and el cargo is to be left in Le from Godown on and after 4th| Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.. Godowns until Thursday, June 10, Tylan Ry

Lid., whence and or from the 1920, when they will be examined June.

delivery may Optional cargo will be landed, wharres

be by Mrs. Carmichael & Clarka unless notice has been given prior obtained.

at 231 p.m. Thursday June 101b. No Claims will be admitted | 1923, steamer's arrival. All broken, chafed, and dam-after the Goods have loft the Go-

Claima will not be accepted aged goods are to be left in the downs, and all Goods remaining Godowns, where they will be undelivered after the 8th inst. examined on any Tuesdays and will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 34th free storage period.

No claims will be admitted after inst,

they will No: be the Goods have left the steamer's recognised.

All broken, chafed and dam- Godown, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 10th June, aged Goods are to be left in the Godowna, where they will be will be subject to rent.-

All Claims against the Steamer examined on the 10th inst. st must be presented to the under-10 am.

No Fire Insurance has been signed on or before the 4th June,

affected. or they will not be recognised.

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

All broken, chafed, and damag-to ed goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 am, and noon within the Iree storage period...

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining andelivered after the 9th June, will be subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the under- signed on or before the 23rd be June,

will not or they recognised.

No Fim Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agenta.

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1920.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

Hongkong, 3rd June, 1920.

Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. Agents. Hongkong. 1st June, 1920.

unless erg is so examined by said surveyors, prior to the above

date.

All claims must ho presented within a month of the steamer's

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No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the getown3.

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All goods remaining after June 12th, 1920, will be subject to rent.”

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignees are requested to send in their bills of lading for countersignature.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

Agents. Hongkong. 7th June, 1920.

"The expanse of keeping many wives is no doubt a factor, but no, I think, a very considerable one, in the decline of polygamy. Among uncivilised peoples, par- ticularly in parts of Africa, where the fellwark is done by the

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W, CHATHAM.

ILLEGAL MARRIAGES NOW MADE LEGAL.

A curious omission in the deeds of St. Margaret Church, Halstead, Kent, is to be put right by a special Act of Parliament. In 1881 the church was consacrated for the performance of divine service, in substitution for the ancient parish church. No deed of substitution, however, was executed until last year, and the

Church were to marry two wires especially among who have been the household. It would be very he would not be allowed to educated in the West. Occasion-much better if inter-marriage jally, bowever, one hears of some between the races occurred only remain.

where both sides are Christian: "I know India and China, and exceptional case.

"A Pathan officer wham I met that is the great guarantoo. quite distinctly the same sort of

"In China, where some wealthy mavement as that reported in in France and who bad a wife in

almen have many wives, there is Persia is going on there. In India became engaged to India there are two factors in the French girl with the consent the same movement towards the women,th sezono nis faster works practice of polygamy: you have both of his own and the French abolition of polygamy. It is large- in the reverse direction, for there it more amongst the Moham-family. He intended to marry the ly due, I think, to the higher the possmasiɔ 1 of many wives is a medans than the Hiodos, and girl and take her back with him place that women ato taking indefinite source of prosperity." Diore among the rich than the to India, but I am sure she had general affairs—coupled with spreading influence of

new IN DEFENCE OF WELL-DREWED pas. Among Hindus, with whom not the faintest conception of the

WOMEN, monogamy is the rule and the what she was going out to, for a Christianity.

"When there are many wives

"Why should a woman, if she tradition. polygamy is disappear-union of that kind is perfectly

I know less about the fatal. The warning, in fact, may there is often a great deal of] ing. Mohammedans. They are a back-by usefully given that any girl jealousy. Indeed, a man in Hong-is a Christian, go and mako a ward people as a rule, and any who is inclined to marry & non-kong put the whole position very scarecrow of herself?" asked the whether ajclearly to 030 of our women | Rev. Diosdale Young, speaking new movement touches them last, Christian Indian,

Due pieces wife." he at Weybridge. “Christian women The general feeling in India Mohammedan or Hindu. would doctors, approximates more to that of the do well to make aura in the most said 'everything all lite; two ought to dress as prettily as they much plenty could, so long as the clothes are West, and the movement towards careful way that she is not likely pieces wife, bo

paid for. monogamy is quite a marked one.] to have another wife brought into bobbery.'

church bar naver been licensed for the solemnisation of marriages. As a number of marriage ceremonies have been performed in the church, the Home Secretary has issued a provisional order making thesa and be is marriages légal, introducting a Bill in Parliament to confirm the order.

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