JODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ,
S.8.. "KENDAL CASTLE ..., Salis on or about 19th October.
LLOYD TRIESTINO
REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE
» FOR URINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME), TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS of LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS..
REDUCED PASSAGE: RATES TO BRINDISI, VENICE: OR TRIESTE..
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"A" Class £72.10.0d.
"B" Class £66.0.0d.
NEXT SAILINGS.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAL Yokohama, KOBE A MOJL
From Hong Kong,
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISL. VENICE AND TRIESTE,
5.S. "THUMB-1"
M.V. "VIMINALE”
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From Hong Kong.
.Sails on or about 8th October. Sails on or about 30th October.
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South Afriern Ports. Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.
For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to→→
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents... Telephone Central 1030.
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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore, Colomba,
Suez and Port Bald.
ALASKA MARU .................
Tuesday, 12th Octuber,
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Balgon, dugapore,
Colombo,. Durhan & Capetown. LAPLATA MARU
.... Friday 5th November.
(Cabs at Algoa Bay)
HONOLULU MARE
BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo.
BORNEO MARU...
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Tuesday, 19th October, ...Wednesday, 3rd November.
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR &
MOMBASA Via Singapore & Colombo..
PANAMA MASK DARPANERA.
SEATTLE MARC
Rangoon.
CALCUTTA V Singapore
BANGKOK Via Saigon
TACOMA &
KOHSO MARU
VICTORIA SEATTLE,
Shanghai,
.....Wednesday, 29th October..
Monday, 25th October,
.... End of Octolier. VANCOUVER Japan Paris from
ARABIA MARU...(From Shanghai) Sunday, 10th Octuber. NEW YORK-VIs Japan ports, San Francisco and l'anama.
ARGUN MARU
JAPAN PORTS
HAMBURG MARU
ANDES MARU
TEELUNG via
SWATOW & AMOY.
HOZAN MARU
KANO MARU
TAKAO) Vis SWATOW & AMOY.
KOTSU MARU'
TAKAO and KEELUNG,
BATAVIA MARU
DAIREN via CHEFOO and TSINGTAU
KINZAN MARU
.Beginning of October:
Thursday, 14th October. Friday, 16th October. "
Wednesday, 13th October noon. Sunday, 17th October, at; 20' a, m. Wednesday, 20th October Bam.
Monday, 25th October..
Middle of November.
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For further particulara please apply to:-OSAKA BHOBEN KAISHA. Tel. Central: No. 4068, 4050, 1090.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager,
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD., AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
"CITY OF BARODA" 9,870 tons d.. sailing 5th Nov. "CITY OF CAIRO" 10,145 tons dw. sailing 3rd Dec. The above modern passenger steamers will be despatched as above for Boston and New York via Philippine lelanda,. Straits. Colombo and Suez Canal, arriving in New York on or about 5th January and 2nd February respectively. Fares £100: Single First Class £70.-Single Second Class.
For further particulars, apply to
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents.
KAIPING COAL
HOME,
FACTORY
AND
BUNKERS
FOR ALL PURPOSES
POWER
HOUSE,
TUGS &
LOCOS
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
Head Office:-TIENTSIN, «
Agents: DOWELL & CO., LTD., Hongkong.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
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SHIPPING NOTES.
VESSELS FROM FAR AND NDAR.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
From Awstralia and Manda the 8. Changte" arrived yesterday afternoon with passengers 256 tons of general cargo and 48 bags of mail for Hong Kong. Messrs. Butterfield and Swire will despatch her for Australia on October 16.
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The Bellar liner "President Wilson" arrived at, daylight to-day from Manila and is en route to San Francisco via Honolulu and Japan. She has 20 cabin and 365 steeruge passengers aboard of which 5 enbin and 24 steerage are disembarking at Hong Kong. She also brought 187 tons, of general cargo and 8 bags of mail for dis charge here.' The "Wilson' will!!
a on Sunday at noon.
The P. & O. steamer "Jeypore“ left Shanghai for Hong Kong on October 6 at, p.m. and is expectedi to arrive here on October 10 at day- light.
The oil tanker 9.9. "Ampullaris“
of the Aalatie Petroleum Co, Br rived yesterday afternoon with 259 tons kerosene in bulk consign-
LOCAL SHIPPING.
TQ-DAY'S ARRIVALS AND CLEARANCES.
THE MORNING LIST.
This morning, the following sea-going arrivals at Hongkong were reported:-"
MARINE INSURANCE,
"
OLDEST POLICY DATES BACK TO 1856;"
The fatest Issue of "Lloyd's List and Shipping Gazette" "announces The addition, through the courtesy of the P. and O Company be Lloyd's rooms of a photograph of a pelley on goods in the ohip "St Ilary made at Marseilles in the Fear 1384. There are copies of still ourlier policies preserved in the Public Record Omco. The oldest original policy of marine insurance known to axist in Bri tain is that on goods in the Three Brothers, dated February. 656, more than seventy years after Sir Guillaume Peuch caused him-
Kwangtung (1872) Bri. from Singapore and Bangkok: B. & S.
Sulyang (1594) Bri. from Shang-elf to be assured in respect of she hai and Amoy: B. & S. "
"St. Mary." In itself the policy Changte (279) Bri, from Mck contains many points of interest bourne and Manila, R. & S.
As might be expected from its dato, Ampullaria (8476) Br from Sant is an exceedingly plous docu- Pedro, Cal; A. P. C.
President Wilson (819) Ameri can from Manila; Dollar Line.
Kwayo Marn (2744) Jap. from Mike: M. B. K..
Clearances.
For Singapore Malacka Maru For Saigon: Pheumpenh. For Tourane: Jade.
ment. Not only does it begin In the name of God and of the Virgin, Mury" but ejaculations of "May God save it." "May God forbid"" are senttured thickly over the docu- ment wherever the venture ora possible easuulty are referred to. But for all its strangeness there! is much that "is familiar in its clauses The risk begins "The day and hour that the goode dre loadel For Shanghai's Hongseng, Presi aboard the said vessel at Mar dent Jackson.
seilles, and continues until sho has arrived at Tripol in Syria, and "all the goods, there dis- charged by land in good safety (B.
Departures,
For Muntok: Tisondar For Kobe: Philoctetes.
SHIPS IN PORT,-
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ed to the company. She came fromAt 9 a.m. to-day the following San Pedro, California and will suit numbers of vesüels Were in For that port as soon as she dis- charges her varyot
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The Bank Line will despatch te day the as, "City of Bash" for Beston will New York via Manity. She is taking cargo and maik
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With a carge of 5,205 bons of coal for discharge hore, Japanese steamer "Kwayo Maru** arrived this morning from Miike. The M.B.K. will despatch her for Japan to-morrow afternoon
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The Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner "Kitano Maru" with afrive to- morrow, afternoon from Japan with | passengers, cargo and mail for dis- Pharge here. She will sail for Marseilles, London and Antwerp ce Sunday morning.
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The master of a Ashing junk was' fined $15 the Marine Court this mering for failing to exhibit re- gulation lights when under way."
LIFEBOAT TRAINING SCHOOL.
| port:-
British Ameries! Panama
24
Norwegian
10
German
Japanese
Chinese Dutch Portuguese French No flag
Total
54
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
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The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" from Hong Kong on September 16 arrived at couver on October 4.
Van-
on salvement), and the list of risks and perils accepted is very Emuch like that in a Lloyd's policy of to-day, though it is characteris- tie of the times that a special pro- vision has to be made for forte majeure exercised by the ecclesias. vical as well as the temporal power, One curious provision throwing Fight on the commercial practice o Marseillos in the sixteenth cen Lary, is that in the event of loan or accident which God forbid") the assurers are to pay the amount of the insurance within three months from receiving the news of loss, and are only then free to institute Proceedings if they dispute the claim. In that event they are given eighteen months to prbeure their proofs and meanwhile the ssured is to give security for re payment of the amount received; with such interest as the court shall decide, in the event of the decision going against him
ENGAGEMENTS OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN SEAMEN.
125,004. British, other than Asiatics and Africans, against 112,702 for the previous quarter, while for eigners, other than Asiaties and Africans, numbered 3,011, against 3.270 in the preceding quarter. For the
The B. a. "Shirala" left Amoy for this port to-day, at a.m. and is The engagements of British and die here to-morrow at about 9 a.m. 1oreign. seamen at mercantile The P. & O... "Jeypore" terti marine offices in Great Britain and Shanghai for this port in Octob Northern Ireland, but excluding 6 at 3.20 p.m. and is due here is
those engaged at' ports in the Irish October 10 at about 5 am
Free State during the quarters The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empress of 1926, and June 30, 1925, number ended June 30, 1926, March 1 Asia", Capt. A.. V. R. Lovegrove; ed 131,739, 129,533, and 139,276 The removal of the. Liverpoot E.S.O. R.N.R.. Commander, will. Lifeboat Training School to more leave here for Victoria and Van-quarter to June 30, 1926, included respectively. The figures for the commodious premises at Clarence
couver, B.C., via Shanghai Woo- Half-tide Dock has been found ng Nagasaki, Kobe and Yoko necessary dwing to the success of
hama at 6 am. on October 14. the course of instruction in boat- The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empresa of handling which is now spreading in
Canada" left Vancouver for Heng popularity among the merchant Kong, via Japan ports and Shang shipping lines represented inha, on September 30 and is due
Mr. C. F. A. Fyfe, superintendent
The M.V. 4.s. "Sumatra" (Swedish engineer of the Booth Line. wheast Asiatle Co., Ltd.), left shares the general opinion that werp on September 19 and is due every seaman should be a qualified here on or about October 20. boathand, attended the school and went through the course of training as an example to his engineers and freinen. He has been awarded the certifiente of efficiency. That the engineers make excellent. pupila is proved by the fact that there have been no failures among the officers who have attended, while 95 per cent. of the firemen have also pass- ed.
Liverpool
Havana, October 2.-The Ameri- can steamer "New Britain" which was are off the coast of Georgia arrived here to-day under escort of the eoastguard vessel "Seneca."
here on October 18.
The M.V. a "Japan" (Swedish East Aslatic Co., Ltd.), left Rotter- dam on September 19 and is due here on or about October 29.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES
Consignees of Cargo per 6.3. "Benlomond" are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after October 11, will be subject to rent.
Jane quarter last year British, other than Asiaties and Africans, numbered 132,000, and foreigners, other than Asiatics and Africans, 3,451,
AMERICAN FAR EAST LINE FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES.
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FOR MANILA ONLY.
United States Shipping Board
STRUTHERS & BARRY,
Managing Operators.
.L. EVERETT, INC.
..General Agents.
Consignees cf cargo per 8.8. "Langton Hall! are reminded that goods remaining undelivered after Phos C, 3008, 1st foor, Queen's Bldg. October 11 will be subject to rent.
SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
"
-DRY DOCK
Length 787 Fest. Length on Blocks 750 Feet." Depth on Centre of
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
Tel Addres: “TAIKOODOCK,” HONGKONG. Telephone: Central No. 212.
Call Flag: "C" over "ANS. PENNANT.”
Sill (H.W.0.8.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins.
THREE SLIPWAYS-
Capable of Handling Ships Up. to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS. HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1926,
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
EMPRESS EXPRESS
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
NEXT SAILING
to the
PACIFIC COAST
S.S. "EMPRESS OF ASIA"
will sail for
VICTORIA and VANCOUVER
via Shanghai and Japan Ports at Daylight THURSDAY, Oct. 14th.
HONG KONG-MANILA-SERVICE,
Leare Hong Kong
Oct. 20 Nov. 3:
Arrive Manli Oct. 22 Nov. 5
Leave Artive, Manila Hong Kong EMPRESS OF CANADA Oct. 23 Oct. 25 EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Nov. 6 Nov. 8
CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS COMPANY TRAVELLERS: CHEQUES PAYABLE THE WORLD OVER. THE SAFEST AND MOST CONVENIENT WAY TO CARRY, FUNDS.
Passenger Department: Freight and Express:
Tel: C.769 Cables: "GACANPAC." Tel. C.42 Cables: "NAUTILUS.”
CHINA BORNEO SHIPPING CO.
HONGKONG BORNEO LINE
To Jesselton thence to Sandakan, Tawau, Semporna and Lahad Data Calling at Sandakan on return. voyago.
Regular Thred-weekly Freight and Passenger Service.
Hong Kong Departure Jesselton:
→ Sandakan
Departure Arrival Departure Arrival
Arrival
Arrival
Departure
Tawao
Arrival
Semporna
Lahad Datu
Departure
Sandakan
Arrived
Departure:
Hongkong
Arrival
PROJECTED SAILINGS
of the
Sis. "LOK SUN"
SATURDAY
October
18
October October
8
12
FRIDAY. TUESDAY Excellent accommodation for Saloon, Second class and Steorage passengers.
All First Clase Staterooms and Second Class Cabins Atted with Electric Fans.
Hotel
rasorvations arranged at Sandakan and Hongkong if desired. Through Bills of Lading fasued to B N. Borneo Forts other than trose named....
Sailings are subject to alteration.
For Freight, Passage and other Information please apply to
THE
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CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, Agents.
Queen's Building.
OR.
W. WATT & CO., Agents.
Phons C. 232,
188, Wing Lok Street West." Phone C. 4968.
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Telephone Central 22.
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