W. S. BAILEY
THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE & CO., LTD.,
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES.
LONDON
SERVICE
(Direct)
London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Rotterdam & Hamburg
SERVICE
16th Mar. "' KEEMUN*
5th Apr. "NINGCHOW "
12th Apr. "THESEUS"
19th Apr. "ATREUS"
26th Apr. " ELPENOR "**
LIVERPOOL
"TELAMON "
(Direct or via Continental Ports)
22nd Mar. Havre & Liverpool
"KT. of the GARTER" 28th Mar. (enou. Miles, L'pool & G`gow ** 100MENEUS" "' AJAX "
13th Apr. Havre & Liverpool. 19th Apr. Genoa, M'llos, L'pool & G'gow
SERVICE
PACIFIC
(via Kobe and Yokohama) "TALTHYBIUS" 16th Mar, 6th Apr. "TYNDAREUS "
PROTESILAUS" 4th May
NEW
"LAERTES"
Violoria, Seattle & Vancouver YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)
27th March
via Suez
HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE
“IDOMENEUS" "PYRRH US" "ANCHISES" "TEIRESIAS "
13th April
for Liverpool
for London
3rd May
21st Juno
for London
7 July
for London
For Freight and all Information. Apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
AGENTS.
CONSIGNEES.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE ADMIRAL LINE.
The Steamship
"ALLOWAY"
ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOR UN KOWLOON.
HARBOUR REPAIRS Call Flag "L”
Sole Agents for "KELVIN MOTORS." Motors from 12 B.H.P. to 50 B.H.P. now in stock also spare parts,
Works
Manager...
Secretary
10+
Harbour Engineer
Tel. K.21.
-K.329.
が
K369.
K.28.
Telegrams "SEYBOURNE."
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
From HAMBURG, ANTWERP
via BOMBAY,
THE Company's Steamship
"ATLAS MARU" having arrived from the above ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where delivery can be obtained as soon as the goods are landed.
Goods not cleared by the 22nd inat., will be subject to rent,
Damaged packages must be
THE UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM.
Labours Proposals. Labour's proposed remedies for unemployment were outlined in the resolutions submitted to a special Trade Union and Labour Conference, These in- olude:--
Unobstructed
Russia p
trade with
Stability of exchange rates; Government trade credits; Unobstructed transport system
throughout Europe;
Stoppage of military adventures: in Mesopotamia and olse where in the East;
Termination of military op-
pression in Ireland;
Services of public utility;
Prohibition of all overt me;
Broken time doles;
Universal eight-hour day;
No wage reduction.
The
aré:-
suggested allowances
UNEMPLOYMENT.
40s. per wook for householders; 25. per week for single men
and women over 18.
UNDER-EMPLOYMENT.
£1 for a householder losing
three days' work;
268. 81. if he lost four days in
the week.
The conference was asked to protest against the attempts that are being made "to take advan- tage of the prosent crisis by reducing wagos."
SHIPBUILDERS.
SHIP REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS.
OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.
MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
-DRY DOCK-
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF
HONGKONG, LIMITED
LENGTH 767 FEET.
LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FEET
DEPTH ON CENTRE OF
SILL (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 FT. 6 INS.
-THREE SLIPWAYS-
CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP
TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT..
ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF
LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS
TEL, ADDRESS:-"TAIKOODOČR“ HONGKONG.
TELEPHONE NO. 212
CALL FLAG: "C" OVER "ANS, PENNANT."
HOW THE VIENNESE MAKE MONEY.
Desperate Speculation
in Exchange.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS, HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN
U.S. CITIZEN AS IRISH BARON.
Romance of the Fermoy Peerage.
Trade Unions were asked to resist to the utmost any effort to destroy the workers standard of
It takes a time, of course, for The Hon. Edmund Burke Ro- life by such means. CHARGE AGAINST GOVERNMENT. everybody to find a proper niche che, who succeeded to the barony Opening the Conference, the after such a terrific social upon the death of his father last Chairman said that something heaval as Vionua is experiencing, year, has announced that he will must be done at once to assist but it can be done ultimately, accept the title. Ho says that ho those without work. The workers writes the Vienna correspondent endeavoured to persuade his brother, the Hon. Francis Burke would not be fobbed off any longer of the Daily Chronicle. with words and more words. They "Business" is a vast sponge Roche, to assume the title, but When tound this could not be done. you ask what anybody does the "Even if I remained an American answer is usually the one word citizen" he pointed out, "I would business.' Not that people still be Baron Fermoy in the He has thore- have become clerks and whatnot, British Peerage." growth of the middlemen is here and assume the title. but simply that the parasitical fore decided to prove his claim more apparent than anywhere else.
called for deeds action, perform-sopping up many people. Buče.
left in the Godowns for examin.
It was indeed an ironic situa- ation by the Consignees' repre-tion that millions here and in
and the Company's sentative Surveyors, Messre. Goddard and other countries should be clam- Douglas, at 10a.m. on Wednesday oaring for work and appealing for “BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS and Saturday. All claims must be the bare necessities of life while the inaterials to meet the situation existed.
From LEITH MIDDLESBRO, LONDON and STRAITS.
The Steamship
having arrived from New York
15th inst. via ports, ONL consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and or Extra-llazardous Godowns of The Hon Shan Godown Co.,
Consignees of Cargo are hereby 16 & 17 Kennedy Town Praya, Hongkow, and stored at con-informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the signer's risk.
"BENLAWERS "
- Consignees of cargo must pro-hazardous and/or extra hazardous duce an Import permit signed by Godowns of the Hongkong and the Superintendent of Imports Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., and Exports, Hongkong, before Ltd., whence and/or from the nisy. bo Bills of Lading will be counter-wharves Bignod.
All broken, chafed and damaged cargo is to be left in the Godowns where it will be examined at 2.30 p.m. on 21st inst. by the Co's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
obtained.'
delivery
No Claims will be admitted aftor the Goods have left the Go- downs, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 19th inst. will be subject to ront.
prosented within Ten days of the steamer's arrival hero, after which date they cannot be re- cognized. No claim will be ad- mitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No fire insuranco whatever will be effected.
Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately. OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Y. YASUDA,
Manager. Hongong, 16th March, 1921.
TRIAL OF GERMAN OFFENDERS.
In his judgment, the members of the present Government on this vital question had been guilty not only of grave neglect, but were also deserving of censure, having regard to their lack of foresight. A POLICY THAT IS RUINING BRITAIN.
Moving the main resolution Mr. Frauk Hodges (Miners' Federa- tion) declared that the report of the sub-committee represented the best efforts that the political and industrial sides of the move ment had put forward. The present international policy of the Government was raining Britain. It was not for us to set up arti- cial barriers, yet that was what had been done.
A THREAT.
那
Countries which rule the dis- tribution of raw materiale have ruted that practically done should come to Austria, and therefore Austria has been constrained to look around and find where she could obtain any article of com- merce so as to earn something off it. The result is tha: Vienna has become a huge exchange centro for Central Europe, her banks doing an enormous business in trading or financing others, and that Vienna has become the happiest hunting-ground for
"Schieborn."
PARASITICAL EARNINGS.
FAMOUS SCULPTURED
STONE.
Threatened Removal to London.
of
A movement is on foot to provent the removal from Scotland its most ancient of one
This is the sculptured stones. Cadboll stone in Invergordon Castle grounds which Captain M'Leod of Cadboll is said to have donated to the British Museum. The question arises whether it is not a national treasure which should be housed in Edinburgh Antiquarian Museum.
It is a sandstone slab feat 9
inches in height and 4 feet 7
inches wide at the base, and is The Fermoy estates of about divided into three panels with a 21,400 acres aro in County border of foliageous scrollwork.
On the upper part of the border Limerick. The late Lord Fermoy, the third baron, who had been is the so-called "spectacle orna- the Hon. James Boothby Burke, ment," which is much weatherod. Roche, died at the end of Novem- her last after having hold the title barely two months. He had married Miss Frances Work, daughter of the U.S. millionaire, Mr. Frank Work, in 1680, and been divorced in 1891.
The upper panel has the symbol named by some the "crescent and arrow" adorned with designa in the "key" pattern, the triple spiral ornament, and interlacod work.
In the middle panel is a "hunting scene." On the upper During an adventurous career part is a horsewoman with flow- he had searched for gold in the ing hair seated on a side saddle Klondike and for oil in Texas.and followed by a dog and two The Hon. E. M. Burke Roche, man blowing horne. Below are the heir, was born a few minutes two horsemen, armed with round bafore his brother Francis and is shields and spears, and a deer 35 years old.
which has been seized by two When Mr. Frank Work, render-hounds. The upper half of the It is a customary sneer that od intensely "anti-British" owing lowest panel only has been pré- only foreigners and the newly to his daughter's matrimonial severed. It is adorned with The resolution was put and rich indulge in "schiebing," but troubles, died ten years ago, he finely worked triple and double-
the decent Austrians themselvçe The Position of Matters.. carried unanimously.
are forced to take a hand in the left £600,000 to each of the twins spirals.
It is believed that on the other on certain conditions, involving Mr. J. H. Thomas moved that game if only it is a profitable one. the severance of British con- aide of the slab there were once The German Imperial Court of
Vienna is producing little in Justice has now, according to the the resolution and report be sent
permanent legal residence in the symbols, but these were obliterat- All clainis. must be presented
Tagliche Rundschau, concluded to the Prime Minister and momi- the way of new wealth, but her nections. They were to retain aa cross and other Christian must be United States, neither the mothered in the seventeenth century, within thirty days of the steamor's All claims against the steamer the preliminaries in regard to thebers of Par iament, and, further, parasitical earnings
the Conference should great,
nor her children were ever to visit when the stone had apparently arrival here, after which they must be presented to the Under-first 11 war criminals named by that
The ohange which has come cannot be recognized. No claim signed on or before the 26th the Allies, and the prosecution is adjourn until February 23 to
to be changed to Worls.
a Highland proprietor. It bears will be recognized after the goods March, or they will
not be to be proceeded with in four of enable the Executives of the about is strikingly shown by England, and the son's name was been selected for a tombstone by The sons refused to accept the the following inbcription above 13 have left the Godowns, and cargo recognised.
the cases. It is expected that the Union to consult their members statistics of the new companies triale will begin this month, and decide on any further neces-formed during the preceding year.
the actually lose thereby, as
He that leives (lives) weil doth undelivered on and after 22nd inst. 1921, will be subject to rent.
All broken, chafed and dam.
In an interview with a Press re-sary steps to secure the adoption The amount of capital sub-terms of the will, but they did not coat of armis
acribed was practically ten times family made a voluntary agree-wail sayeth Solomon the Wyse. No fire insurance whatever will aged Goods are to be left in the presentative Dr. Heinze, Minister of the recommendations.
Godowns, where they will be of Justice, stated that he was Mr. Robert Williams declared that subscribed in an average be effected.
three wyves, 1678. £543,000.
On the question of citizenship According to local tradition Consignees are requested to examined on the 19th inst. at doing his best to bring on the that if they could not achieve peace-time year, but this is not a mont by which they cach received Heir lyes Alexander Duf and bls
one Was
of the thrae send in their Bills of Lading for 10 a.m.
trial, but he found the work what the programme suggested sign of reconstruction; it is mere- extremely difficult. Of the by constitutional means, they ly a sign that business here is the new Lord Fermoy had declar- this
It is
about the ed, when in doubt as to whether memorials erected countersignature immediately.
No Fire Insurance has been selected list of 45 names 13 had would adopt some means of an largely speculative,
desperate effort to do "something"
he would accept the title, that he graves of Danish princes who United States Shippin g Board
been immediately deleted bo-extra-constitutional character. effected.
to burst the bonds. 180
had become a United States were drowned on the coast of WBS This resolution cause the accused were either
Of the companies with unlimit-citizen "automatically when his Easter Ross after leaping on to Emergency Fleet Corporation
Bills of Lading will be counter-dead or not to be traced. The approved, and the Conference
ed liability, there were :—
mother obtained a divorce." a ridge of rocks which is utili remaining 32 cases had been taken then terminated.
Capital,
called "The King's Sons," BARBER STEAMSHIP
signed by
Million which are designed to work kronen. worthless articles, LINES, INC. Managing Agenta.
The Admiral Line.
6th Floor Hotel Mansions.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1921.
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& CO. LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong, 14th March, 1921.
in hand. The Allied Govern- ments had been asked for certain particulars, and to these Serbia and Rumania had made no reply at all, while France and Belgium had supplied only partial answers, England alone had sent a com- plete reply in the seven cases in which she was interested.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
WHO WUZ THAT ALEK?
ON-THAY'S MISSUS ??MISSUS
GIMP.
LONDON. UNIVERSITY SOCIAL UNION.
London University students have decided to form a union for the purposes of promoting and co-ordinating social and general activities,
Alek Can Explain Things
MISSUS GIMP! I NEVER
SAW HER
'FORE.
33 1
Banking companies 6
... 106.5 116.1 Trading companies 9
... 282.8 Industrial
6.0 Agricultural "
Included under the heading "Industrial Companies" are many
WHY, THATS TH MISSUS” GIND THAT HAS ALL THEM CATS—SHES" A GRASS" WIDOW
TOO.
WHATS" A GRASS WIDOW,
ALEK?
such as
cosmetics. Others have merely gone through a reconstruction process. Some are of a scientific or literary nature, while still more are merely for the liquidation of property.
BY BLOSSER.
GEE-DON'T YOU KNOW 77 HER. HUSBAND DIED OF TI' HAY-FEVER #
FRENCH POSTAL SERVICE: DEFICIT, The 1920 balance sheet of the French postal and telegraph ser vices shows a deficit for the year of 458,000,000 francs.
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