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THE Fortysixth Ordinary. An- nual Meeting of the Share- holders of the above Company will be held at the Offices of the General Agents, Pedder Stree', on Monday the 31st. March 1924 at 11.00a.m. for the purpose of of receiving the Report and State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st. December 1923.

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 1924.

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NOTICE.

SEA SAVAGERY

How Seeds of Unrest Were. Sown.

THE LATEST QUAKE,

JAPANESE ISLANDS

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Tokyo, March 18—A strong earthquake › waa"» reported from Toyohara, Saghallen, on March 16, throwing down buildings.. Casual- ties are feared.—Fruter.

MAUSER SPRINGS.

Just ban thugh was the buçka mate perderte goes on and we mova fagentler era barring submarines and poison gas, wo lose our perspective, we see dimly into the not so distant past when men were physically cruel," says a writer in the Nautical Gazette. at sea the activity of man has greatly lessened. Real hard | A NO-SAVVY DEFENDANT. casas no longer flourish. A bucko mate shipped on a modern steamer, woull throw the whale works into a maze of lawsuits, Of course, he would have won lerul times an F1 and [hizing the seam-n and airing his

marvelus profanity before harris! galery of fascinated

A Chinese was charged, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton yesterday altemoon will being in unlawful posserska ot 170 pistol springs, a

Tusposter Appleton told his Worship that defendant was een carrying a pincel in Upper Lages

WBOWLER ISCHARGED.

An Extravagant Young

Ass,

EASY CREDITS IN THE EAST;-

The charges against Norman W. Bowler of obtaining a motor [ear by falas pretences and aredit- by frand were dismissed by the British Magistrate at Shanghai- last Thursday.......

His Worship (Mr. G. W. King)` summing up, remarked that as be had clește to deal with the case summarily it was his duty to address himself as he would to a jury. There was a considerable Amount of differees between life the leading to England and life in Shanghai, Cireular Path When asked what and he had to consider this when

English Passengers. The buss never he had in the parcel, defendant Applying Stoppet at anything. The story and that he did not know. The

Shanghai. of a certain me, janting the detective tore opes the parrel mud side of a winte wheelhouse,

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In England you cannot get credit unless you are exception.

comes in mind. Inis man had found the springs. Defendant was just brought his shop into port arrested and when asked again.ally well known. On the other and was acting as ship keeper. replied that a friend gave thein to hand you can get credit in Shang- a rule and not as an

BITTYCA Woman vet soupły won

quickly when "Celwit" Someone hat murred the scared him, telling him to take care of hai as

paintwork and he was repairing them while be went was here and exception. Take this young man of 23 He came here to no definite damages. The owner, in tall hat when he came back they would go

position, he came in the summer, and frock coat, steppel on board. to ten together.

An armourer of the R. A. O. C. and in July he does very well in He was an old-time owner. Paint was being wasted, as he thought was called and gave evidence to the this commission business. Instead "What are you doing? Can't effect that the springs were identi- of behaving reasonably he goes you get this ship painted at sea?"al with those used in Mauser and buys a motorcar. He lives Pistols, but he could not say it and dresses up to his incoma. In they were used for other purposes.fact one can say that he has been. Defendant said that the friendlaltogether an extravagant young he gave him the springs was in, but so far he had done nothing criminal. But when he Canton.

His Worship: Does he nut live finds the money going it does not bring him UP with a is Hongbong"

round turn, but instead he goës Defendant: No.

to Case and orders suits: there His Worship: This is again you have the difference be unfortunate for you.

tween Shanghai and England. Mr. Hamilton found the case He gets credit. He makes no proved, and as the defendant had a clean record, he was given the fraudulent representation and the

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$1,000 fice or six goods are delivered. After his journey to Hongkong he comes back to Shanghai and gets em months' hard labour.

ployment. Then he starts oD B., real career of extravagance. He

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he demanded. "No, I can't get her painted with like you sneaking on board. Take that "The bucko mate picked up a broad brush full of paint and plastered it squarely on the flush- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that fed face of bis owner. Then he the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of caught him by the seat of his Shareholders will be held in the pants and the nape of his neck Uffice of the Company, Queen's and lifted him over the gangway. Buildings, Hongkong on Thurs. The strange part of this yarn lies day, the 20th. March 1924, at in the fact that he was sent to noon, for consideration of the sea in command of that ship, the Directors Report and Statement master having taken ill" of Accounts for the year ending this mate was so tough he could 31st. December' 1924

not stand being master. He was be 3 bucko The Share Register and Trans-simply out to fer Books will b: closed from the 8th to the 20th March 1924 (both dags inclusive).

By Order of the Board Directors.

P. M. DYER. -

Chief Manager. Hongkong, 4th March 1924.

mate. It was once considered a minds of those who suffered ua-gets a car at Hudfords and gives great asset in the management der the rule of the bucko mate.a post-dated cheque for $2,000.. of certain ships to have on board

Off Cape Horn, one of the men If I seem harsh in speaking of on the Gatherer, Captain John him as an extravagant young ass of at least one, and sometimes two

of these hard cases. They drove Sparks then in command, a man I think that I am justified. Thres crews away from ships before they who had been specially singled of the charges I hold cannot be had completed their voyages, out for brutal treatment by bucko substantiated.

inmate Watts, ran aloft shrieking His Worship went on to review · saving: many good dollars wages earned and due, but never down on his head the awful veng-the evidence on the other two eance of strange distorted gods, charges, concluding with the paid. They also became such ex- perts in the art of working up & yelling his last defiance as he statement that if a jury had been crew that men accomplished in-scrambled upward to some my-sitting he believed, though re- credible amounts of labour on thical heaven, his torture body luctantly, that they would have long voyages of watch and watch swaying on the ratlines, his held there was a doubt in the case burning with with no afternoon on deck. The eyes

crazy and dismissed the charges. If yielding himself to ships became hrger and the fervor,

Bowler had found himself be- crews became smaller. The the sweep of the uppermost tween the walls of the Amoy SEEVICES CONTRACTUELS frightful injustice of this proceed- mast under a dull Antarctic sky Road Gaol the Magistrate would ing was the bitter seed fromAt last this poor devil was climb have had no sympathy for him. which so much of our presenting away from the floating hell As it was it was his duty to day seafaring discontent obtained on deck. Shouting a last vile discharge him. The cases would is growth. Most of the leaders name at the bloody officers, & be dismissed.

CONSIGNEEN

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

The Steamship

“COMMANDANT MAGEY

Ponsichees of Cargo fron [Ln-Pallica, Cornac

In connection

with

have Steamer are hereby inferred that their goods with the exception cf Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risks, into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloct whence delivery may be obtained imediately after landing.

charges.

in the cumbersome legislation for stinging insult in the face of the seamen were warped and mangl- cowed and cringing crowd clus- ed in the bard school presided tered in the waist, he catapulted. over by the backo mate. Ships from the royal gard into the sea and men became famous for their just as the mate sprang into the brutality; and a tradition of the rigging to bring him down. "No tough packets grew up about the efforts was made to rescue this waterfronts of both coasts.

poor soul, crazed, no doubt, beyond hope of recovery.

CRICKET.

h. K. C. C. TEAMS.

The following trains will repres BUCKO" MATE WATTS.

On this same voyage anotherut the H. 5. CC. on Saturday For years

men cursed the man was shot by the mate, while in grusade us below, all matches Bloody Gatherer." Her name, on a third, a seaman named Swan- commucacing at 2.15 p.. sharp:

Jat. XI V. K. C. C. 1st XI discharge, was full evidence of a son, ran aft, climbed the taffrail, hard voyage and the occasion for ripped his throat open with League) on H. K. C. C. ground- many an oath as sailor men sat sheath knife and toppled headlong. H. B. Hancock (Capt.), T. E. Bills of Lading will be counter about their chests in the boarding into the sea. A swirl of blood in Pearce, E. J. R. Mitchell, R.E.A. signed by the Undersigned. Goods houses оп Froat and Water the white, water of the wake, a Webster, H. Owen Hughes, E. G. remaining unclaimed after the Streets, spitting tobacco juice face in agony, and a clutching bammert, G. R. More, A. C. I. 25th. instant at Noon will be across the sawdust covered floor, hand lifted above the churning Bowker, Ilev T. B. Powell, A.V.T subject to rent and lading and thumping their heavy beer wave, was his farewell. Such Dean. W. W. Mackenzie.

"A" Team Royal Navy at glasses in approval as some re-extreme cases did not happen All claims must be sent it turned voyager detailed the latest' often, but when the old sea wills Happy Valley.-L. D. McNicoll to me on or before the 23th story o. atrocity on her benighted it, fiends are bred upon its breast.Capt.. Capt. R. F. Walker, Capt. instant or they will not be decks. One of the cardinal Mr. Watts, earlier on that same W.G. Rent, Capt. Rowe, Lt. C.D. recognized.

principles of seagoing in those passage had gouged out the eye Armstrong, F. N. Young, P. W. F. All damaged packages will be days was to "put the fear of of a young sailor in one of his 'Mills. F. J. Wakefield, A. Vallack, examined on Tuesday the 25th. God into the crew. This led to conflicts with the men. Captain D. HF. McMaster, J. N. Owen. instant at 10a.m. by Messrs.many of the most heartless Sparks was relieved from the 2nd XI V. R. E. (League) at Goddard & Douglas.

chapters of the life at sea. Men command of the Gatherer, and Happy Valley-G. H., Piercy No Fire Insurance has been went completely daft on the long bucko mate Watts spent a long Capt.). H. E. Hollands, C. K. Effected.

passages, four and five months term in Folsom Prison. The Baron, H. Griffin, D. Raid, B. C. R. RODENFUSER,

out of sight of land, the brother- present difficulties in maintaining Hagen, D. E. G. Nicholson, J.A.H. Acting Agent. hood of man and the precept 'love discipline at sea grow out of the Plummer, K. M. Macalpine, C. T. Hongkong 18th. March 1924. thy neighbour" curdling in the former license.

Fowle; G. W. Sewell.

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