The average annual shipmentof hemp during the 20 years preceding the American occupation, i.
The State galleon made only one voyage a year there and back, if all went well; but if it were lost, the shipment had to be renewed, and it often happened that several galleons were seized in a year by Spain's enemies.
Containing, as it does, a large quantity of tannin, it is sometimes used by the Manila apothecaries, and I once heard that a small parcel was being collected for shipment to Italy.
Rizal was cabled for to answer certain accusations; hence on his landing in the Peninsula he was incarcerated in the celebrated fortress of Montjuich (the scene of so many horrors), pending his re-shipment by the returning steamer.
A sworn invoice of the shipment was to be sent to the royal officials and magistrate of the Supreme Court of Mexico for the value to be verified.
Illustration: The Ivory on the Right, Covered Only with Sacking, Is Ready for Shipment to Boston, U.
The agent of one of the largest English firms on the Ivory Coast, one that started by trading in slaves, said to me: "Our largest shipment to this coast is gin.
Well, I heerd tell of that shipment you was making, and I sets out to git it, for it ce'tainly did seem to belong to me.
To expect them to believe that somebody else had heard of the secret shipment and had held up the stage two miles from the place they had chosen, was to ask a credulity too simple.
He must 'a' heard of theshipment of gold, and that's what he was after.
The meat industry of Chicago, from the purchase of the livestock to the shipment of the meat, in either the fresh or the cured condition, is carried on at the Union Stock Yards, which are located near the outskirts of the city.
The first shipment of cattle products from Chicago was made in 1841, by Newbury and Dale on the schooner, Napoleon, bound for Detroit, Michigan.
The Illinois Cattle Importing Company received a shipment of 38 Shorthorn cattle from Europe.
Whatever may have been the conditions in the past, it is a fact that today the greatest care is exercised in the shipment and handling of the stock from the time they leave the farms until they reach the packing houses.
We were informed that the number of sheep in this District would considerably exceed four millions, and that the annual shipment of wool was very large.
The earliestshipment of criminals hither was in 1787, consisting of six transports with about eight hundred convicts, two hundred of whom were women.
So it was for a while given up; but as the colony grew in numbers, and produce for shipment poured into Christchurch, the necessity of the railroad was more and more fully realized.
Immense tracts of land are also devoted to stock-raising, for the purpose of furnishing "dead beef" for shipment to England in fresh condition.
When the harvest is ended and the golden stores of grains and fruits are gathered, then the question arises what shall be next done to prepare them for food and for shipment to the distant consumer.
There was a gold shipment in the box consigned to Tascosa.
For somehow word had got out a day or two in advance of the gold shipmentthat it was to be sent on that date.
It turns out the finished product ready for shipmentto the postmasters of the country.
Indeed the shipment of lumber by parcel post is not now an uncommon thing, due attention being paid to postal requirements.
It can at once be exchanged into the money of any country with only the slight deduction of cost of shipment to this country--as is the case in the United States with notes of the Bank of England, which are redeemable in gold.
It is quite true that not more than one in one hundred who write these firms to get an order for some one or more kinds they might supply, ever give it sufficient attention to enable a first shipment to be made.
When the shipmentarrives the importer invites jobbers to inspect the same.
Suppose, if you will, that a certain definite shipment of Red Cross supplies comes into the headquarters city of Paris, either from Rouen or Le Havre or Brest or St. Nazaire.
We have ready for shipment several patent picks, some of which we have tested and describe as follows: Cumming’ Pick.
We try to keep ready for shipment most any style and price of Scale wanted.
She said without looking up: "Oh, Aunt Maria, I've just discovered that that shipment of clothes from Louisville got acknowledged to the people in Seattle!
At Manaar the elephants are usually detained till any wound on the leg caused by the rope has been healed, when the shipment is effected in the most primitive manner.
One of them was a shipment of jewels valued at a quarter of a million, consigned to a San Francisco firm and the other was a sealed packet from the War Department.
We were on the path of the transcontinental air mail, and I bided my time until an especially valuable shipment was to be made.
Indeed, anything which will hold scallops for shipment is used to send them to market.
The markets are principally New York and Boston, where the quahaugs are shipped, mostly in sacks, which is a cheaper and better way than shipment in barrels.
The Tuckernuck fishery is largely "little necks," and it is from here that the shipment of small "seed" quahaugs has been made.
Second-hand flour and sugar barrels are used for the shipment of clams in the shell, while kegs and butter tubs hold the shucked clams.
Immense tracts of land are also devoted to stock-raising for the purpose of furnishing beef for shipment to England in fresh condition.
The kauri-gum forms a large figure in the list of exports from Auckland, and the digging and preparing of it for shipment gives employment to many persons.
These objects are of the Punic period; they were all found in groups, and had apparently been arranged on a platform of piles in what was then a bay, in readiness for shipment (F.
Also applied to certain conditions of shipment of batteries.
He had failed to prevent the shipment of the Brocklington Company's consignment of steelwork for the Kilba Protectorate.
If I should happen to need a million or two I prefer to borrow it for a few weeks until my nextshipment comes in.
Bale or wool lashing is also made to a small extent for shipment to Sydney, &c.
Buffalo hide cuttings are generally prepared for shipment by being immersed in lime-water, from which they are withdrawn perfectly white and coated with lime.
