WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18, 1922.
SHIPPING.
CHARTER-PARTIES AND BILLS
OF LADING.
INTERESTING LONDON LECTURAL
At the London School of Ecouć taje - and Political Sciene, Mr. 1., Harti (Messes Ellerman Buckuali, gave the first of what protilises to be wars eeedingly interesting and lable series of lectures to students upon ab pping subjects
Speaking from the hook of A perience Me Harris said there were no hooks extunt on the practical side of shipping comparabl with those available for the student of marine
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The subject he had to deal with waIN 11 mas: examples our Foi tanee.
hnd enignited and desired hay wife and family tein hin and his brother desired to send his furniture out to him he would breone party to 1 I the most complex phases of shipping business. On the other hand, if you were a prince of coMBIJETET and bad many thousands of tons of merchandise tre export or import the shipping arrangements were of the
character. simple
Mere experience would never teach the
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derivation of the term ebarter-party. Charter party was in fatt a corruption. of the Latin Carta partita, and simply ! any deuranal executed in duplicate and shmed, another
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THE CHINA MAIL.
| WEATHER REPORT.
January 18d 4h 6.--Warning to Hongkong, Coast l'orts, &c -- N.N.E gale in Formoss Chante),
January 18d. 11h. 35m.-PressUK has decreased slightly over SiW. Japan and from Shanghai to Weibai- wei. It has increased moderately over 5. and g.W. Chino.
Strong monsdou may be expected nong the 3.E: coast of China and fresh monsoon over the northerr portion of the N, China Son,
Hongkong Rainfall for 1bo 24 hours ending" at 10 km to-dny, 6:02 inch. Total since January ten, 076 inches, agsiust an average of 153 inches.
Forecast for the 24 hour ending at
noon on dangary 19, 192,
I.-Hongkong to Gar Rook.
or mist.
N.E. winds, fresh; overcast, some drizzle
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the definition Was shuple the document was elaborate, and there were varieties of fans used aveou- modate to the varying uses to which a shop could be put under the charter Party Having defined the various characteristics of the several charter parties commonly in nee and detailed the contents thereof. Mr. Harris dealt in elose detail with points arising. Hel described how the shipowner having' tion of the document winch supersed-burners, it is interesting to note in the agreed upon the description of cargo ed in point of time and authority the annual report of Lloyds Register of and the voyage to be undertak. charter-party, namely. the bill of Shipping the remarkable increase in desired to know what i was to be lading.
the use of oil fuel to replace cost, as paid and in what currency he would
illustrated by the following com Lective payment
He explained that
parative ligures recorded in the register:
HONGKONG HARBOUR SHOWING MOORING BUOYS.
or
BRITISH INDIA FLEET.
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ANCHORAGE
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Despite the dulness reported in shipbuilding, figures compiled by the United States Bureau of Shipping to September 1, shows that more than a half million tone of new vessels are under construction. Further than this. only 105,900 tons are for the account of the United States Shipping Board while 436,217 tons are for private owners.
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HONGKONG.
DAILY WEATHER REPORT.
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Geographically, 14 cargo ships and 26 tankers are being built on the
A Hyde Park Orator returning The hire money in the case of a time
Atlantic Coast, the total tonnage home flushed with his efforts; and also charter was customarily paid monthly
Vessels burning oil fuel, gross tous
involved being 305,079 tons. in advance, though only earned day by
One from certain spirituous causes, found large majority of the house desire to Inngkong July, 1914.
.1,310,209 cargo vessel and 14 tankers, with a
a mild curate scated opposite in the honour the Constitution and secure day, so that when the charter ended
July, 1919.
.5,336,678 total tourage of 105,538 are under tram-car. It may interest you to the long overdue removal of the an adjustment was made of any
There was launched from the Wear July, 1920
9 359,334 construction on the Pacific Coast; two know," he said truculently, that I capital. The New higher overpaid. In voyage charter
shipyard of William Grey and Co., July, 1921.
12,796,635 cargo ships and two tankers with a don't believe in the existence of a member, naturally, voted strongly freight could be payable upon ship (1918). Ltd., on Nov., 29, the fine It is stated that the position combined tonnage of 27,600 are under oaven.,' The curate merely nodded, in support of the Canberra scheme, Phalien- ment in exchange for bills of lading geared turbine steamer "Nalgors" for indicates that industrial conditions way in Gulf Coast yards.
and went on reading his newspaper. whilst the vast majority of Tonrane....! payable at destination against the British India Steam Navigation generally during and subsequent
3.84.Jamus. "You don't quite realize what I'm the
from al right and true delivery of cargo either
the pscri Co., Ltd. The launching ceremony
to the war bave given tremend-
trying to make clear. I want you to states also in the currency of the port of loadings was performed by Mrs. A. L. Munson.
favour the scheme. Oarapan impetus to OBS
this important
understand that I don't believe for a At the present rate of progress, how-
Agila the nort of dis harge, or any other The new vessel has been built to ronomic movement. Some in irc
single, solitary moment that such a plare und insted of in cash perhaps Lloyd's highest class, and
ever, there is little likelihood of l'a:lobsu her pression of the industrial significance
place as 'eaven exists." All right, Parliament meeting in the new capital loo in hills calculated to mature when the
dimensions are Longth, 451ft; of the change will be obtained when
all right," answered the curate for another five years to come. More Tarigan arge reached its destination
breadth, ft., and depth moulded to it is realized that the steamers now in
pleasantly, "go to hell, only don't probably it will be ten years before Vol later. There Was no limit-
upper deck 32ft. 16in., ber estimated existence which are fitted for oil fael
make quite so much fuss about it. that can happen. to the altermtive. Dealing with the question of the time to be 10.600 tone on a draft of 2716, 10ția coal approaching 20,000,000 tona per deadweight being approximately would represent a consumption of
Oldest Man."
Lord Rayleigh. Djourg Chemdine, said to be the by a steater in loading She is of the shelter deck type, with
"An une ring leader in the ad. and discharging known as lay days, tonnage opening aft, and
annum, or about 8.7 per out of the
oldest man in the world, has been vancement of natural knowledge" ia be said that much legui acumen and
two quantity of coal brought to the sur-
spending a pleasant week in Paris, a inscribed on a memorial tablet to much useful money had been wisted complete steel decks below. Spacious face in the Duited Kingdom during casualties in Indian waters last year the time when he heard of Napoleon was unveiled in Westminster Abbur Palrenheit, on the larol of the cen
city which he has wished to visit since Lo. Rayleigh the scientist, which accommodation is arranged in steel 1928. in inventing dificulties on the subject. dcckhousea abreast the machinery Apart from the question of the those of recent years. According to years of age, and though his life has transept between te memorials to Bir grees Fahrenheit.
shows a big decrease compared with I. Djouro Chemdine says he is 146 The memorial is placed in the north. of lay days. From the beginning ■ [
inches, tenths and hundredths the shelter deck
TEMPERATURE, in the shade íu ce casing on
relative cost of coal and oil as fuel, statistics compiled by the Indian been spent mainly at Constantinople Humphrey Davy and Dr. Thomas creation the length of a day had been
and engineers
officers. a matter of serious dispute and in the saloon deckhouse is arranged vessels using the latter, an all-round merce, the number of wrecks in 1920 through his interpreter that he had
and there is undoubtedly, in the case of Government Department of Com-
HOMITY, in percentage of extur 8.2 a porter be stipulating for the time ocupied in abaft No. 2 Latch with captain's day economy of labour, bunker space, was 46, against 84, 74, 65 and 59 in always taken the greatest interest in ing the University of Cambridge
assured me Young,
tion the humidity of air saturated with moisture being 100. loading a ships it was advisable to and sleeping cabins above The chart accommodation for crew, and time in 1919, 1918, 1917 and 1916 respectively. the doings of Europe. The aged and
Sir Joseph Thompson, represent - 4. DIRECTION or Wish, coften points "day" clearly and wheel houses are built on top of port; factors which have an important The total tonnage lost was 18,322 Turk is tall and upright, and his ed the memorial in the presence detached cloud, d drizzling in,
6. FOXIE D WIND, seconding to Beadford Roate. the captain's house. Accommodation bearing on running costs.
the Royal Society unveil
STATE OF WEATHER, blue sky. The rate of dis-burge was practical for firemen and seamen is provided especially in the case of passenger lives lost in the year nader review shrunken face which is all that the Dowager Lady Rayleigh, Lord ? passin showers Buy & min, & snow
against 26,585, the total number of piercing black eyes line from a of s
Fog. ly based upon the sustum of the in the after end of the vessel. The steamships of the type representen aggregated 13 only which is an testifies to his great age. The sup Rayleigh (who succeeded his father in
company which included g gloomy, h hail, 1 lightning, overest port, but there still rems ned toe steering gear, which is of the Wilson-by-the Montcalm and her sister any ports where son gends of Purie type supplied by Messrs. ships and the "Empress of Britain." antiquity were sub
maintained Hastie and Co., of Greenock, is placed
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GENERAL NOTES,
more
The number of wrecks and
appreciable decrease on previous posed year of his birth, 1775, is the title is 1919) and Lady Rayleigh,
other casualties.
registered on his passport.
Women's Brains.
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director. Hoackong, Observatory, Jan. 18, 1922,
death-rolls. The wrecks included
Sir Oliver Lodge, and Professor Sher- nine British, 33 British Indian, and a incnus, of blackmiling ship-aft, and is worked by telemotor from
rington, president of the Royal one foreign vessel, and three native craft. The casualties comprised 551
"Men are pig headed to the extent, Society. Lord Rayleigh's 'discovery owners If he were endeavouring to the bridge. The windlass is of a convey what be considered to be the powertul type made by Messrs. Clarke, The Macedonia has established the British, 26 British Indian and 13 no more and no less, that women are of argon (a colourless, odourless ga legal f undation of the charter-party Chapman and Co., Ltd. Electric quickest performance since before the foreign vessels and 11 native craft, monkey-minded," says Miss Florence occurring in air), said Sir Joseph, was be would perhaps have said that light is being installed throughout by war by steaming from Gibraltar to There were 14 founderings, I collision, Daniel in "Are Women Monkey one of the romances of science. It originally, or should it be aboriginal- the builders. For the rapid handling Plymouth in 60 hours.
20 strandings and 6 miscellaneous minded ?" just published at 2e 6d. by had lurked unsuspected in large pro- ly the shipowner accepted goods with of cargo 12 derricks are arranged on
cases among the total and 19 collisions, Messrs. C. W. Daniel. Ltd; 3, Tudor-portions, but in spite of the experi- temperatura: full responsibility to carry and deliver posta, these being worked by 12 steam The Spanish steamer "Florentina" 3 founderings, 59 strandings and 30 street, E. C. 4. "The brain of the ments of chemists and physicists, no Humidity them in exactly the same condition, winches of the Durham" type, of 3,392 tons, has been destroyed by are, miscellaneous accidents among the normal, healthy woman undergoes a suspicion of its existence had ever Direction of Wind..... and notes relieved of responsibility which Messrs. Robert Roger and says a Lloyd's Valencia message, and
monthly rhythmic modification," she arise. The remarkable thing about Force explains, and declares that this Lord Rayleigh's investigation was Weather by specific stipulation accepted the Co., Ltd.. of Stockton, sre the 77,976 cases of benzine were lost.
endows her with a natural capacity that argon was tracked down, not by ilsio............................ whole trek. In all his experience he makere. had never heard of a sipper or
for seeing diferent sides of a disputed the use of instruments more power- The propelling machinery consists Included in three schemes to Engineer Captain G. H. Brom gaestion equally well.” charterer who did not either pay a of single screw double reduction improve Glasgow as a part is one to wich, D.9.0., C.BE, who was naval
ful than any at the command of his premium to others to insure his goods geared turbines of the Parson's type, make a new harbour at Renfrew manager at Garden Irland naval sometimes that women are incon of chemical upparatus-the balance." Observing that men complain predecessors, but by the oldest piece" or realise that he was insuring the built by the Central Marine Engine at a cast of from £16,000,000 to establishment, Sydney, N. 8. W. dursistent, never long in the care mind goods himself.
W. rks of the builders. Steam will be £20,000,000..
ing the late war, has been appointed about anything" she points out The "Himalaya" is expected to So many circumstances were likely supplied by four large cylindrical
chief engineer of Hongkong Dockyard. "In childhood the bodily functions end at noon on Thursday, January 28 to arise to alter the preconceived multi-tubular marins boilers, working Only seven vessels, of 15,850 tonn. He is not a stranger to the Far East, of boys and girls are similar, At with the Wiltshire. Rgt. on board course to be undertaken in a venture at a pressure of 220lbs, persquare inch, age, have been launched on the Clyde as he served here an engineer of the adolescence they bogin to bo different, and will commence loading on Thurs that various clauses were necessary and fitted with Howden's system of last month. This is the second lowest battleship Centurian,"in 1900-3, when and this difference affects the brain. day this to provide for possible contingencies. forced drought. A special feature of monthly output this year, and there bor crew and the crews of other ships And it is this differenso of brain passengers to England are Major G. ts dropped daily at 10 am.#nd p.m.,
work. Indulgence The lecturer explained how three the boiler installation is the "CME is no sign of greater activity. on the station were landed as a naval action between the man and the F. R. Rapson, e.o., Major R. P. except on Saturdays, when it is druppe coxtingencies were muct, and how the type superhcoter, daigned and made
brigade to proceed to the relief of the woman which doubtless gave rise to Culver and Mrs. A. W. Timmit, wife Holidays when it is dropped at it' d'1,0,0, and on Sundays expenses and, additional respon by the engine builders with a view of Of the 302 vessels delivered; by Legations at Peking. He was employ that popular expression of psychologio of Major A. W. Timis Tho sibilities arising from such variations utilising to the utmost the heat from Germany to Britain 345 have becued in construoting and repairing tom truth, it is a woman's privilege to following ship's staff is appointed sheh minuts and full mast at the 874
40 Ball hoisted half must at the dealt with, and explained the gases on their way to the chimney. and; states Mr. Stanley Baldwin. The porary armoured trucks which change her mind. It is time she 0. 8. Troops Leat Col minuto on d the ball fall in fro that when the charter party was A number of CMEW-steamship gross price realised, was £19,111,000, Admiral Seymour's expedition used, adds, that attenti n was drawn to Wyndham, 2/Wilts, Regt. Ship's the ostrost time it will be lowered ab signed sealed, and delivered and auxiliaries are included in the There are still 81 vessels, to come. and affor Captain Boyta, Royal Marine this fact that to subfoot a girl to Ajutset. Captain A. EL. Bleekly, winntes past the hour and the ordinary. stamped, action began. "The shipowner macbinery installation,
was killed in action, hbo otactly the same educational processes 2 Wilts, -Ship's Quartermast
Missing repeated at the following hour. At the general meeting of the North Sommanded his company for sojas, as this, boy, is not to cinamont Capa de afe 1 Offanten M.Oold the Fimo-Ball beat of order German Lloyd Shipping Company on time. He mounted the guns of the gun- | "till further to enslava, her-to spoll (2) Wits, Regt. Buhlar Medical Officer, the above contine will be exreled og Dovember 21 à proposal was made | boat “ Algerine pratationary moun-hur brain."
Licht. Col IT Brown, RAMC with the gefche storm styl to increase the capital br 150,000,000 tings for the defendu of Tieptain and astralia's Capital a
MO i/e Troops. Captain T.C.R Tume Signala nie givón al nighay. marks (about £320,000) to 000,000,000 the Per Yang Arstini, bad for these The opponents of the now Fedural | Aror. I.A.M.C. Orderly Room by moant of three white hats an inbun ed marka (about £646,000!^^> very fine service was mentio ed capital at Canberra mat with a velo Anistonti, Bet D. Gurmat let you do
Cintia illy on, the Obdfvstury, wizelsk, in despatokea and Warded tas D. 8. de eat in the House of Representat RX 8.0 and La Sgt. J. Horrooks,
the, lawye The Peblboular and Ohrhtal Stoum O. Her, Wasting nada to Garden wel on a motion to opitiaaliam of IA 9:0. Visitor will not be with culghed month arily at any Navigation Camudny untoonna that i Ysland duen the,, Jule" "war Bud £200,000 in the estimates Waluk want allowed on board ship fund the hoopda, Probe at Mini 2nd,/£311 >> In fakire the India mail will be pitkud | Fendered Vary, ins, rvice, blere, for degaiived by 17, vote to
Band, and p4p of awch cluster dra umbarkation of all troops and marriei. Cap ab Maisoilles Instead of at Beindial WHEN IS YOU via the O. B, Eminenty, was comprised of
famillum is complatad, the
instructed his master to proceed, to the port of loading named on the
-charier, probably supplying him with
a cory of the blister for his guidance. The chaitorer propaced his cargo,
OIL VERSUS COAL.
INTERESTING.
sau funtruotions to his agents to In view of the fact that the new
and
take delivery of the steatmer, and Canadian Pacifig Steamshile the
enerally proceeded to not in accor "Montcalm, Montrose " dattoo with the provisions.
**Muptelare "*** which will be in the Mr. Hartis sbnounced that the next Montreal Liverpool services, this Instore would deal with the consider are the most modern typs
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