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SERVICE TO NEW YORK.

NEW YORK and or BOSTON via PANAMA.

For freight, space and particulars apply to

BARBER STEAMSHIP LINE, INC. ADMIRAL · ORIENTAL LINE.

---AGENTS

4. Den Vœux Rd. C ILK & Sai Bank Did Ground Flor Telephone Contral 2477 & 2478

HOLYOAK, MASSEY & Co., Ltd.

Agents.

Kelvinator is Electric Refrigeration

Kelvinator can be installed in the refrigerator you now have. It supplics dry, even cold---the same low tempera- ture all the year round. Thousands of owners agree, acores of them right here at home, that Kelvinator's automatio refrigeration is far cleaner, far more convenient.Youshould by all means investigate with a view of equipping your home Kelvinator is demonstrated in our show rooma. Or, a phone call will bring you literature describing it.

Visit Lane, Crawford's Hardware Show Room where a Kelvinator is actually in operation.

Established 1914

Kelvinator

Electric Refrigeration

HONGKONG HARDWARE CO.

"TAI LEE CHAN."

ESTD. 1884

METAL GOODS and HARDWARE...

Tel. No. C1993

119 Jurvais. Stront

NOTICE TO THOSE WHOSE MARRIAGE WILL SHORTLY TAKE PLACE,

Pictorial reccres of weddings are highly desirable,

Call at the MING YUEN STUDIO Battery Palb and inspect specimen groups,

Upon receipt of instructions will will send expert photographer to any ceremony or function,

(Ollolai Photographors to the Hongkong Telograph)

SHIPBUILDERS.

SHIP REPAIRERS.

BOILER MAKERS

FORGE MASTERS

OXY-ACETYLENE AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS. MECHANICAL AND

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

NOTICE.

THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL

STEAM NAVIGATION CO.... STEAM FOR SINGAPORE PENANG COLOMBO AND BOMBAY

THROUGH BILLS OF VLADING... ISSUED FOR

SATURDAY

1924

BRITISH SEAMEN:

Value of the Old System.

The British, seaman' i

is dying out. That may acum a bold assertion, especially in a port liko Liverpool, but I make it on the authority of men who know, retired master marinors, who, in their day, commanded big ships, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN writes “W. I. H., in the Liver pout AND CONTINENTAL PORTS | Echo) It will be said plenty of

AND LONDON:

men tillgn on for voyager, and that there are more ship omvors than thero is work for them. True, but the point ja! "MIRZAPOJE"

that many of there me know nothing about sailing ships, Barrying . Májody's' 'Mail

audit is the system 'under which will be damnpatched from portat NOUN on THURSDAY this 70 Aurush taking. Cargo for The Love-Ports. ·

THE "Strandugy|

Silk and Valuable Cargo fo Italy, France and London (unde arraugomont ) will be convoyé by this Steamer proceeding t Bombay at thero transhippe to the on-carrying Stearuor fo Marscillos and London.

Parcels will be recolved at th Rice until ap on the day pre vistis of sailing The contouts a zalue of all packages must to sfeclared.

For further particulars, appl

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MACKINNON, MACKENZIE

* CO.,

Agents, Hongkong, July, 31st. 1974

THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON TAXICAB

CO., LTD.

་་་

NOTICE OF CALL.

Issue of 49,000 Shares of the Nominal Value at Siù each.

($5 paid up)

an officer or captain of a steam- is now possible for a man to bo ship without having "had" any [oxperience “in sail.'

Unt une years ago it was [compulsory for

A young man qualifying for a "ticket" to gaļa “ into stiami. This compulsion no gon in a sailing ship buforo going

lougor usists, and it is this which fis causing so much head shaking anug the old salts. It may bo said that as, the windjative is going out of oxistonics, the necess ily for knowing how to navigate! such a craft has passed, Argument on these lines may satisfy tho tanaman, who knows nothing off and thinks little about, Jife at sea, but it does not pass muster with those who have spent a lifetime, on the waters. They so one mercantile marine stuffed, so for ay officers are concerned, with

on who ato ignorant of the rig of a sailing ship, and thoir case is that all is not woll, that the aboli- tion of the condition that experi- once "in sait" must precddo the acquisition of the other knowledge essontial for a "tickot" was a mistake from which the servicol has suffered already, and will Buffer more in the future,

Although steamships aro, now the thing, we shall always have a certain number of wind-propelled NOTICE is hereby given that

the 3rd. Call of $2.50 per consideration that weighs with | vessels, This, however, is not Share on each of the 49,000 critics of the present system. shares allotted on the 19th, day Their case rests on entirely differ of May. 1923, has been made by ont grounds. What they say is

sailing ship develope those

the Company, and that such call the responsibility of navigating a will be payable to the Company's Bankers. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong on or before the 15th day of August 1924.

alities that are essential for a fully qualified officer of the mer- chant service and that that deve- The Transfer Books of thelopment cannot be obtained to the Company will be closed from the same degree on & stoamship. 7th 10 14th August 1924, both days inclusivo.

By order of the Board of Directors,

A. H. ROWE, Managing Director.

We have received A fine selection of Real Amber Beads which are being offered for sale at moderate prices.

SHERIFF BROS.

17. Queen's Rd. Central.

MASSAGE HALL 25 WYNDHAM STREET MRS. H. MORITA. MR. H. SUGITA.

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED,

DRY DOCK

LENGTH: 787 FEET:

LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 Par

DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL (ILW.O.ST) 34.FT., &

--THREE SLIPWAYS-

CAPABLE OF. HANDLING SHIPS UP

TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.

ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE

LIFTING 100 TONS AT 20 FEST RADRIS.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE." Agents HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN,

CARS PEMKĀRT

هما

....

The master of a sailing ship Is more often put to a sevarer strain than the man who, commanding.

steamship, is 7110 of il mechanic than a seaman. 50 largely does mechanism enteri into the navigation of his vossol. Mon in sail" are called upon for quick decisions, and aro real sailors, in a sunse that cannot be applied to the men of the storm- ship. This.. put briefly, is, tho

care for the crities who cannot bring themselves to regard any

an

seaman who has not boon through the mill in a sailing ship, and who, therefore, rogard the cadets and apprentices now In training as on the wrong path. A mun, in whatever line of life ho is, is inclined to think the form of training he underwent is beat, and it may be the case-I neither assert nor long that the-rotirod |captains and officers who tako a

somewhat simistic view of

the sorvico bucanso a sailing-ship education is ignored are making a mountain out of a molohill.

Porhups there is a complete. answer to their contention. I So, it should be forth-coming, for. as a maritime master, we cannot afford to take risks. We nood the finest type of seanien we can produce, and if a return to the old rule that insisted on life on a vailing ship as a preliminary to officer's qualification ix necessary, let us make it.

FIGHT AT A DANCE.

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Americans-And-Filipinos.-

Racial jealousy caused a fight with knivos among the sailors) from the American warships anchored in Torbay; who visited Torquay dance hall. Sonic are Filipinos, and reached the dance hall first and paired off with white girls. Later a large num bor of American sailors arrived and objected to the prosonce of the Filipinos, whom they donoribed as cooks and servants. One In-1 lander was soixad, dragged away from his partner and thrown to the ground, whereupon a fleroo souffle ensued, in which the Is landers drew the knives,

American shoro pickota separated the fightors, but two Americans had boon stabbed. In an attempt to calm the screaming and hystorical women the band continued to play throughout the fight. Eventually the Filipinos were removed from, the hall and the Americans continued to dance,

(STYLE

QUALITY STYLE

AND

CHARACTER.

THREE WORDS THAT MAKE THE DIFFERENCE.

QUALITY, STYLE and CHARACTER -each play their part in making

BECTIVE

FOOTWEAR the very best-care being taken to ensure that individuality is built into every pair produced.

They aim at perfection and are not satisfied until it is attained.

Wm. POWELL Ltd., have secured the Sole Agency and have received a first consignment-the forerunner of large shipments of this High-class English Footwear,

Bective

Quality

DURABILITY.

Bective Black Calf Oxford Smart Toe

$18,50

BLACK

Same in Brown.

and BROWN. BOOTS and SHOES

Price $18.50-

BLACK

and. BROWN. BROGUES

Pricù $19.50 $23.50

COMFORT

Bective Brown Brogue, Medium: Sole, Smart Toe.. :$22.50

Same in Black.

Bective Brown Willow Calf Oxford Full Smart Toe, Medium Solo..

Same in Black.

We are also Agents for

$21,50

Keltic

FOOTWEAR

ncat

Made in Scotland.

USE

64

KIWI"

SHOE POLSIHES,

The Polish that keeps the Shou

in its original colour.

WHITE CANVAS

BOOLS and SHOES

Price $10,500.

BUCKSKIN SHOES Price $16.50

With Louthor or Crapë Rubber Soles.

Call and let us show our new shipments of Footwear to

you, or if preferable, a selection will be sent on approval.

Wm. Powell, Ltd

Specialists in Footwear.

HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS

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