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SHIPPING.
ASSESSMENT OF SHIPPING.
THE SLUMP IN VALUES.
ment had decided to stand by Mr.
McKenna's pledge. There were, he a said, a large number of claims com-
SEAMEN'S LAW IN JAPAN.
ing forward, and they now knew they COMPREHENSIVE REVISION PROPOSED. would be considered according to a definite principle.
The amendment was negatived without a division.
ANNUAL REPORT.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LINE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
A revision of the Seamen's Law is expected to be introduced in the next sersion of the Diet in order both to meet the requirements of the ship ping trade, which has undergone great development, and to adopt the decision reached by the first later national Seamen's Conference, writes a correspondent of the Journal of Commerce.
SPORT...
INTERPORT POLO.
SHANGHAI TRAM'S PRACTICE.
The Shanghai Interport Polo team which is dae to play here for the Keswick Cup this month, played an interesting practice match last week against a strong combination repre- senting the rest of Shanghai. Com The only Japanese regulations remesting on the game, the N.C.D.
are the Ship scamen
Necs says lating Officials' Law promulgated in April, 1896, and the Seamen's Law promal- gated in March, 1889, both laws be ing
to
MYSTERY SHIP.
VESSEL SEEN AGAIN.
NIGHT SNCOUNTER IN "FIRATS ZONE."
Yet another steamer reports an encounter at sea with the mysterious vessel carrying no lights and refusing to answer signals which has been seen off the United States North Atlantic coast.
In the resumed debate on the Finance Bill in the House of Com- mons, Sir William Raeburn moved an amendment to the Excess Profits Duty sections of the bill," That there shall be granted as an allowance the
The report of the Java-China-Japan difference between the original cost price of the asset plus any subse Line states that conditions were quent capital expenditure and its value favourable at the beginning of last alter the war for this purpose shall year, the demand for tonnage being be its value on the 31st day of brisk and freights were at a remuner Augast, 1921." He said the amend ative level, notwithstanding the ment involved two points, the one enormous height of working expenses the principle upon which a war asset This prosperity did not, however, should be balanced, and the other prove of long duration, towards the the date on which the valuation middle of the year trade declined and Towards the end of should take place. In the bill the (reights fell.
Regard shall be had to the year the lump developed with phrase and the conditions prevailing on the 31st even more rapidity, while salaries day of December, 1920," was exceed and wages, costs of fuel and stores ly wide, and was entirely wide of the and maintenance remained high. promise given by the Treasury at the The ultimate results of the stump time EP.D. was first introduced. will be more evident in the report for Immediately after the introduction of this year on account of the number! E.P.D. a deputation of shipowners of voyages started towards the end of he was president of the Chamber of last year, which were only completed Shipping-was received by Mr., this year. In the trade between the McKenna, then Chancellor of the Dutch East Indies and China competi- necessary investigations with a view Thursday and Saturday only, on each New York was the Mansan liner
mere
McMichael and Robinson, both being selected to go to Hongkong, based on the German code. were able to put in some useful Since that time Japan's shipping has
a very good basis from which to greatly expanded, especially at the combination work which will form week. time of the Russo-Japanese war and the European war, but no revision of plan their practices next the Seamen's Law has ever been
As a result, considerable Col. R. Marr Johnson wili again enter made. inconvenience is being experienced. the arena, this time as coach to the Even apart from this consideration, Interport team, which at present the resolution of the International
consists of McMichael, Robinson, Seamen's Conference necessitates a revision of the Japanese law. In the Boyd and Brenan circumstances, the Department of making Communications is now
Captain Herbert Wallace, master of the United States Shipping Board steamer "Craigrownie," 2,496 tons,) reported to the authorities on arrival at Boston that 10 days ago when off the coast of New Jersey, which zone, a steamer of about 3,500 tons appeared on his starboard bow and has come to be known as the pirate
Completely circled his vessel.
The stranger had no navigation lights and made no reply when the "Craigtownie" attempted to call her with a Morse lamp. After steaming round Captain Wallace's vessel the mystery ship slowed down and stop- ped her engines. The "Craigrowne" proceeded unmolested.
For the remainder of the season
Among the ships which reached play will take place on Tuesday, of which days the prospective Hong Callas, for whose safety considerable kong team will play four chukkers | fear was entertained after all attempts to get into wireless communication against teams selected from the m. mainder of the playing members with her had failed. present. Such being the case A and B classes will now combine and play against the selected team on the days above mentioned.
The ship's strong room contained £1,000,000 in gold. Those who scoff at the idea of pirates in the North Atlantic ask how it was that the pirate's intelligence service came to overlook such a prize.
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MANY MUTINIES. Despatches from Washington say that the Department of Commerce
planes to patrol the pirate zone. It has asked the Navy to supply sea- is added that the Department of Justice, which is investigating the the strange ship or ships which are mystery, still holds to the theory that ATMOSPHERE COMPARED TO Amarkable changes between the two ecntinually reported off the New Jersey coast are being run by Bolshe ist crews, who have mutinied and
to introducing an amendment in the Diet. Exchequer, who said that obsoletion by Japanese and by United States!
became tonnage
The resolutions of the internation- scence and depreciation of shipping in Shipping Board
al Seamen's Conference cover: (1)
At the same time another vessel of regard to assessment would be taken more keen. The latter even accept-
than Prohibition of the employment of
he same company had reported into account after the war, and that ed lower rates of freight they should be entitled to take into were justified by the state of the children under 14 years of age; (2) this policy still guarantee of the means of subsistence
meeting the mysterious vessel wirb- out lights in the neighbourhood freights. account the price paid for a stip, the market, and
It for a period of not less than three
Owing to the rapidly shortening where the "Callao" was known to be. capital expenditure, and the value further weakened after the war. The value of tonnage can hardly be expected, however, I months for the shipwrecked crew; had recently assumed a somewhat that competition from American and (3) establishment of free en evenings it is hoped that all players It now appears that the latter's wire fictitious value as the result of the steamers will be permanently main-ployment agencies. The first item desirous of getting a fair share of less apparatus was out of order for! throwing on the market of 300 Ger- tained on a route where American necessitates e revision of the Japanese games will endeavour to arrive on several days after her departure from man ships, and no account was taken trade interests do not play a role. Seamen's Law. As to the second, the the ground as early as possible. Cuba. The passengers were much of such circumstances by the Chan Sugar rates to China and Japan authorities are as yet undecided as to From news to band it is anticipated amused to hear that they had been cellor of the Exchequer. The present have now fallea to pre-war level, whether it should be covered by the that the team representing the Crown pictured by anxious friends as "walk. Chancellor of the Exchequer had said The sharp deviations in the value of Marine Law or by the Seamen's Law. Colony will not be as strong as thating the plank.” that he would stand by the promises, the Mexican dollar greatly interferedIt is expected, however, that the which visited Shanghai last year, but of his predecessor, and that was all with the trade in East Asiatic coua necessary provision will be made in that, of course, remains to be seen; The tries, and in consequence shipment the Marine Law. The third item calls furthermore the question of transit that he was asking for now.
sugar from Java were very for the enactment of a separate new and condition of the visiting ponies Treasury had also issued a memoran. of
The Java-Pacific Line law.
will prove a large factor in success or reporting Mr. dum
McKenna's irregular.
It is not yet knows along what lines otherwise and the Shanghai players declaration. The effect of his amend carried large quantities of copra
the Seamen's Law will be revised, but should be careful, when playing their ment, continued Sir William Raebaro, i cakes from the Dutch East Indies to would be that it would not leave to the Pacific coast of the United States, it is understood that the principal test matches before going down, not to
the chance what
Inland but shipments at other colonial pro points of consideration are: (1) Ques run the risk of shipping their ponies Revenue might regard as circumdace were small. Early last year tion of working hours; (2) establish "stale" Pace and dash are great stances to be taken into accourt. the United States purchased hogement of a minimum number of crew, things in poio, but there should The second point was in respect quantities of Java sugar, the ship (3) improvement of men's quarters: always be a bit in hand for the day, of the date of valuation. The date ment of these securing to the steamers (4) matters relating to the supply of on which, when the results come to mentioned in the amendment was or this route tell uutward cargoes food and provisions to the crew: (5) be absolutely boiled down, only goal that adopted in regard to holders of The offer of cargo trora San Fran compulsory installation of wireless getting really counts on the score.
An instance of this is the play of stock and there was no reason why cisco suffered on account of the apparatus; (6) prohibition of the it should not be applied in the case general slump in trade and the placing of cargo on deck; (7) matters the successful American team in the rate of the American relating to the loadline law; (8) sette-recent International match. Before of shipping. The very highest price high
although the offer of of British tonnage in January, 1920. dollar
was fairly well maintained, it was until fure, 1920, and then it had fallen to £24, and in December antil exceedingly difficult to recure cargo now it had fallen from £14, and from the interior of the States owing now it had to the unfavourable railway rates to from December until fallen from £14 to £7 155. They the west coast. Serious delays were could therefore imagine what that met in ports on Java, the conditions meant in the case of tonnage of prevailing at these ports being'so bad 12,000 to 20,000 tons. He did not that there was not the least guarantes #oderate despatch being think it fair to place the valuation as of even at 31st December last He thought obtainable, and running expenses and Exchequer duration of trips were unfavourably the Chancellor of the should give another date than Decem influenced thereby. ber 31st, 1920, as it was the period before the fali came heavily. Many bad disposed of their ships when the prites were high, and those who beld on were now placed in a position of Many of the great disadvantage. big lines lost a large proportion of their tonnage and replaced them sometimes at noge cest.
STEAM ENGINE.
and the striking discontinuities at the coast lines, the distribution of
water in the atmosphere showing the
which rain comes, the normal' dia-
was £31; the fall was unappreciable cargo from the San Francisca district / ment of disputes between shipowners | the great event they were beates seized the vessel. A number of 9 at Cambridge the annul Redei tribution of cloud and rainfall in July
As was risks may cow be consider- ed to have ended, the balance of the reserve fund for war risk, amounting: to 1,918,353f, has been transferred to insurance reserve fund.
and seamen; and (9) employment and the betting went against them, mutinies aboard American ships in contracts between shipowners and but on the day, when full steam the last few weeks is advanced in
The proposed revision of was trued on, they had a good support of this theory.
The Department believes that the seamen. the Seamen's Law is to be studied deal in hand and so won practically
raiders are putting into American with particular reference to these hands down.
ports to replenish supplies and dis points, and recisions are to be made
pose of their booty, using forged clearance papers a device used by with due regard for the actual coadi tions in shipping circles.
liquor smogglers recently captured by the Government authorities.
PACIFIC COMPETITION.
FREIGHT CONFERENCES.
BILLIARDS.
TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP.
Mr. Oxberry, proprietor of the Palace Hotel, Kowloon, announces that in order to meet the wishes of According to the Asahi, there is the players in the above Champion which wat tournament on the League system Freight Conference, good chance of the Westward Parific ship, it has been decided to hold the previously reported as being moribund, Secretaries of teams are requested to reviving. This Conference is now very send in the names of their players to feebly founded and has but few parti | Mr. Oxberry, at the botel, as soon as cinan:s. To the northern Conference possible, so that an early start might in Seattle, which forms part of that be made, Conference, the CP.OS, Frank Wa. erhouse and Co. Admiral line. N.Y
K., and OSK. belong. The southern
com-
RICH MAN TORTURED.
HOARD DIVULGED AND HOUSE
BURNED DOWN.
Sir Napier Shaw delivered on June great reservoirs of moisture from
Lecture, founded by Sir Robert Rede, Lord Chief Justice in the reign of Henry VIII. The subject of the lecture was the air and its ways.
noteworthy for the monsoon rains of India and the Gainea coast, the normal distribution of winds, and the corresponding distribution of pres
sure.
BOILER CINDENSER AND FLYWHEEL.
The lecturer said that the ways of
The lecturer said he would pegard the air in bulk were quite as peculiar
the atmosphere as a great steamer as those of the "heathen Chinec.”
engine. A steam engine had a boiler, The air as we know it in the labor a condenser, and a fly-wheel. The tory is a very mobile fluid, yet beller of the atmosphere was the in
the atmosphere it manages to warm surface of earth and sea, the take on the character of an elastic condenser some cold surfaces in the solid. It does not go the way it is polar regions and the great mountains, but principally the cold regions of the pushed. Pushed north it goes east, upper air. The flywheel was made up partly of the normal winds and and pushed east it goes south; the condition for its going north is that partly of the semi-permanent winds The normai it should be pushed west. If you of cyclonic depression, Owing to the fall in shipping values
blow a jet of air straight upward you winds grouped themselves into two may find that part of the effect is a great circulations, on one hand a the cost price of new steamers con- tracted for before the slamp will be
Mystery surrounds the discovery vorter whirling around you. In great circumpolar circulation in the tou high to and profitable employ-
near Avranches, Department of the front of its fire, the sun, the air will apper air in which air travelled from Mr. Alex. Shaw seconded the ment for these vessels. The directors,
west to east, and on the other hand Manche, of the bodies of M. and very likely get colder Instead of amendment, pointing out that many therefore, consider it essential to
Mme. Gombert, rich tarmers, in the warmer: losing heat by exposure comparatively marrow equatorial shipowners had relied on the promises strengthem the reserve for steamers
early one Sunday it may get warmer. In spite of all ward, Between the two, over the of the Government, and that substan under construction, so that the book
oceans, were permanent tial injustice was being done to them. value of these steamers will be Conference, whose headquarters are rates rather than merely to maintainwreckage of their house, which was to the clear sky on a cold night belt of air continually passing west-
that is taught in the laboratory about great more in accordance with their actual situated in San Franciscn has only the solidarity of the participants, the burned down Sir R. Home replied that the
with the allied
At first it was thought that an the evitating effect of warmth, cold anticyclonic circulation, huge travel- Government would stand by the market value. They therefore pro- the Pacific Mail Steamship Cn, China American Shipping Board is con- morning.
proposal that each accident had occurred, but the post air floats above us with warmer airling bands of air, a couple of pledges given by Mr. McKenna on posed to increase this reserve by Pacific Company, and T.K.K. These selung
guarantee: mortem examination indicates that beneath. Stir air up violently and thousand miles long (W. to E.) this subject, and would apply the 2,000,000 from profit and loss accompanies, though they are in touch, panies over a are competing in regard to freight member pats
$10,000, under the the couple were murdered by persons water falls out of it; and if the shak- and a thousand miles wide (N. to
They reminded onc principle of the memorandum issued count and 1,200,000 from mis-
belts of. *** conceal their crime. become intolerably dry, very cold the driving by the Inland Revenue, but the rerms cellaneous reserve fund. On Jan. 1. rates, and the southern Conference is fund of
Not only As they moved round like a cog hét of the amendment were 100 vague. 1920, miscellaneous reserve fund almost non-existent. Thesecefers from penalty of the regulations thereof who then set fire to the house in ing went on long enough the air would s... As to the date for ascertaining the amounted to 12,332,360, and out of the Conference profess that they are in being observed, while advising the order
round is Deck, had has the air the innate capacity for they carried forward the westward post-war value it would be obviously this fund E.P. duty in Helland for no position to be constrained by the Blue Funnel and other former parti-M. Gombert, who bad a stout rope top, very warm at bottom.
tion on the south side and the east- unfair to the State to take the bottom 1918 of 4,631,070 was paid, and Conference through the marine de- cipants. If the Blue Fannel line tied of the pit of depression, and the date 1,200,000 iransferred to reserve for pression, but the Asahi declares joins the Conference it has hopes of ceived three knife wounds and his these conjuring tricks, but it never, moving air of the equatorial circais- Underlying all meteorological work ward moving air of the polar circula- specified in the clause was, he con- Weimers under construction the authoritatively that they were ic becoming effective. The Japanese head bad been badly battered. Her hardly ever, fails to use the
the large sum of money. It is thought lended, the fairest as between the balance at the end of the year being dignent at the attempt of British secediers from the Conference are the had recently been in possession of a State and the shipowner. Plainly, it 6,521,290f. Out of this amount E.P. companies, with the Blue Fennel as Mitsui Bussan Kaisha and would not be equitable to take the day in the Dutch East Indies for their leader, and the American Ship Yamashita Kisen Kaisha. To the that men must have broken into was the desire to rriate the behaviour tion on the north side. They were ping Board, to make a monopoly of Asahi's rather vague remarks it may the house at night, tied the old farmer of the air to laws of dynamics and thus the gear that kept the main 1919 is payable.
He attributed much impertine -20 value of a ship as cost price of a
The gross profit for last year was the resolution rights of the Con be added that the chief trouble on up, and then tortured him with knife physics. There were two lines of fly. wheels of the atmosphere in ship but years before the war and
the Con- while a fixed scale of freights was where he had hidden his money. Mtion and collection of facts about the its value at a time after the war. 6.317,4906. against 10,675.7628 for ference by allowing many of their the North Pacific has been that, cuts because he refused to discloseteorological work, one the observa- working order.
The directors propose to write nationals to partake in
air had chiefly to think of in the ways when the slump had reached its 1919.
cargo has been scarce, have seen they placed a rope about his neck and the other the formation of a what long distance travellers in the lowest. Its cost price must be that of 512,9306 on steamers, 1,080.9738ference. Having became cognisant agreed upon, certain lines, when Gombert apparently resisted until weather from all parts of the world this aspect of the fly-wheel. “It was After referring to the composition of the air. By taking advantage of on property in Asia, 40,664 on of the fact that not only is it un- at the outbreak or or during the war. Many shipowners had bought at high stocks, 1.303,797fl on securities, and profitable for the remaining compan- the whole of it, for no discoverable and hanged him to a beam in the mechanical and physical theory.
At this stage it is presumed that of the air and the probability of the the equatorial portion in the Fifteenth prices, not frous patriotic motives, | 2,000,000 on reserve for steamersjes to carry on competition, but that reason, go to their rivals. As soon kitchen.
entirely hydrogen or entirely helium and similarly in the Twentieth Century Lut simply because they considered it under construction, leaving a balance to do so will bring unexpected profits good business, and be could not con available for division of 1.378,000, to the non-participants, and that at rebate comes into vogue. Of course, either the farmer or his wife gave atmosphere at great heights belog Century Columbus reached America. CAFE there was anything unfair is against 2,456,051fl for. 1919. From such a juncture as this it is neces they can prove nothing, but they way and showed the burglars where or entirely geocoronium, the lecturer by taking advantage of the cir line of the globe and the distribu] Atlantic in an aeroplane in 16 hours. this a dividend of 15 per cent, can be sary, in order to re-establish the lose interest in Conferences to the to find the money. Then the aged | paid, against 25 per cent. for 1919, situation, to invite the former part-benefit of shippers says the Japan couple were killed and the house set exhibited maps showing the coast compolar part, Alcock crossed the and 106,000 added to reserve fund. cipants and try to maintain freight | Chronicle.
the Government's proposals,
Sir W. Raeburn expressed satisfac tion that at any rate the Govern
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