DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
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FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ.
LLOYD TRIESTINO
REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE
FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIEST) (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. "A" Class £72.10.0d.
"B" Class £66.0.0d... NEXT SAILINGS.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI"
From Hong Kong.
MX" "ROMOLO"
S.S. "VIMINALE"
Safle on or about 6th Jan, 1927. ... Salf on or about 3rd Feb., 1927;
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE,
S.S. "VENEZIA"
M.V. "ROMOLO"
M.V. "VIMINALE"
From Hong Kong,
Salls on or about 7th Jan., 1987. Sails on or about 4th Feb., 1927. Salls on or about 4th March 1927.
NATAL LINE OF
STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
SIS. “UMZUMBI*%.... ... ... ... .... ... ... ..... Salie from Calcutta End of Dec SS "UMSINGA" ................. Sails from Calcutta 31st Jan, 1927, Regular Passenger and Cargo Service" to South African Ports.. Through Bill of Lading' issued from Hong Kong,
For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply tat-
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.
Telephone Central 1030.
0.
S.
K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP.-Via Singapore,
Colombo, Suez.and Port Said.
ALTAI MARU V.......
....Friday, 7th Janunny.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore,
Colombo Durban & Capetown. MANILA MARU ............
BOMBAY-Via Singr
Singapore and Colombo.
Monday, 17th January.
SUMATRA MART (Calls at Pohang) Tuesday, List December.. JSHIKARI MARWORK... Friday, 24th December. DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA. DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA-Via Singapore and Colombo..:
SUMATRA MARU (Calls at Penang) Monday 20th December," MEXICO MARU
CALCUTTA Via Singapore and Rangon
BINGO, MARU
BANGKOK-Vin Saigon.
KOHSC MARU
Wednesday, 22nd December.
Saturday, 25th December.
.Tuesday, 28th December.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai and Japan
ARABIA MARU,..(From Shan gaal) Monday, 20th December.
Ports.
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PARIS MARU
MENADO, MARU
HAIPHONG-Via HOMHOW & PAKHO.
...Tuesday, 28th December.
Friday, 24th Dec., 10a.m.
NEW YORK-Yin Jupun pants, San Francisco and Panama.
HAVANA MARU..(From Keelung
JAPAN PORTS
SEATTLE MARU
KEELUNG Vie SWATOW & AMOY.
TAIKWA MARU
TAKAO Vin SWATOW & AMOY.
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
.SOURABAYA MARIG
DAIREN Yin CHEFOO & TSINGTAO.
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Monday, 3rd January.
Friday, 2th December.
Wednesday, 22nd: Dec., 3 am,
Friday, 24th December.
For further particulars please apply to:--OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA, Tel Central N6, 4088, 4089, 4090.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
OREGON
ORIENTAL LINE.
Operated for
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UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD E.F.C." By COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPANY. FOR PORTLAND via KOBE, NAGOYA & YOKOHAMA 8.S. "OAKRIDGE"
....3rd December. FOR PORTLAND via M ANILA, ILOILO & CEBU" S.S. "WEST CADRON"
4th January.
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All sailings subject to change without notice. U.S.A., also to New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore, Through Bills of Lading issued to all rail Overland Points in the Philadelphia, New York and Boston, via Panama Intercoastal steamer.
ADDRESS:
Canton Agents: JOHN MANNERS & Co., LTD.
Room 26, Bank of Canton Building,
6, Des Voeux Road Central. Telephone Central 1871.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
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ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MÄFERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done" in this establishment is guaranteed We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Sipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
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Town Office: 44, Conitaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tél. Central No. 459, Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Honglong,
Tel. Kowloon No. 9. Estimates. furnished on application.
Hongkong, April 1, 1924.
-SAND-LIME BRICKS
Best machine made bricks Highest tests and uniform qualities,
For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and
Satisfaction unsurpased.
YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,
'CHING IU NAM
X
ir Manager.
Factory: Canton Hong Kong Offee, 148. Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor,
Telephone "No, C.8882)
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
N.Y.K. ENGINES.
DECISION MADE FOR NEY LINERS.
PRESS SURPRISED,
U.S. SHIPPING,
OCEAN CARGO RATES INCREASED,
WAVE OF PROSPERITY. ...
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STORM HAVOC
Funchal, Dec. 18.
A gale of most terrife violence occurred on December 15. Enormous seas damaged ship-
•ping.
Several coasters, thirteen Eghters, six motor launches and a yacht were sunk or driven ashore. The owner, 2 woman friend and five of the crew of the yacht were drowned. Only one en board was saved. A rescuer was killed,
The sea wall was damaged. All New York, November S-cables have been interrupted. Increasing ocean freight rates Telephone wires are down. Elec. should work
a decided change tric light is not working. Roofs this year, in the complexion, of have been blown off International Mercantile Marine's Reuter recent record as an earner.
houses.
MOVEMENTS, OF STEAMERS.
ton
The my. "Canton" (Swedish Bast. Asiatic Co., Ltd) left Antwerp on December 13, 1926, and is due here on or about January 21, 1927.
The Board of Directors of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha has decid- e on the type of engines to be installed in the three superior passenger liners which it is to build for its San Francisco ser-
While the present demand for vice. Two will be of Sulzer type, tonnage can be considered of no constructed at the Mitsubishi longer duration than the British Shipbuilding and Engineering coal strike. Marine benefits this Works. and the third will be a year to the extent of three Burraeister and Wain double menths of operation at or near The P. & Q s.. "Nellore" left Eating Diesel, imported through capacity And for their tonnage, Shanghal for this port on Dec. 18,
the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, sole a surprisingly large volume of at 9:30 am, and is due here agents and licensees, in Japan. which has not seed better than niorrow, at about 8 m, Importation is necessary, as the sporadic use for more than three The CPS R.M.S. "Empress of Mitsui Company is not yet pre-years, rates, in some cases 300 Canada" arrived at Kobe on Dec. 18, pared to Build the Burmeister per cent. above those prevailing at 8 am, left Kobe resterday at 7 engines. The two Sulder-engined earlier in the year, are being paid. a.m., and is due at Shanghai te
Marine has done business inmorrow, at 1 p.m. ships will be built at the Mitsc bishi yards, while the Burmeister foal charters on the basis of 59 a boat vil be constructed at the ton against $8 a ton a year agb, Kawasaki Dockyard. The Tokyo Higher prices are being asked, "Axahi" and the Tokyo "Nichi and it is considered probable that Nichi" express considerable sur-business will be done on the basis prise that the Nippon Yusen of better than $10 a ton for spot ||Kaisha should have elected to en- shipments within a week.
gine two of the Fessels with Demand for tonnage to export; Sulzer engines, declaring that coal to the United Kingdom and The Argentine training ship marine engineering practice re- Continental ports coincide with Sal Miento arrived at Yokohama commends the Burmeister Diesel the height of the grain move-on December 12 with 31 midskip. present. However, the Mitsument, further complicating the men and 16 engineering cadets sish company is closely related situation and drawing tonnage on board. The boat wild. He at to the NYK and, in addition, away from other lanes. Sugar anchor at Yokohama until Jan- the Kokusan Shinkokai her ex-trade has been among those [uary 2, when it will sail for pressed frank disapproval of the affected; much tonnage ordinari-home via Kobe.. Kure, Singapore suggestion that any engines bely, operating in. the West Indian and Cape Town. The Foreign imported. The matter was dis-suger traffic having been 'moved and the Naval authorities are cussed recently among high offi- to North Atlantic ports to meet planning receptions for the crew cials of the Shinkokal, and Barcn the demand for coal and grain of the vessel. Sakatani. the president, ordered space. Rates on sugar have ad- four technical experts to make avanced in a few months nearly 60 close investigation. They sab per cent. to 21 cents per 100 mitted the following resolution to pounds. Baron Sakatani:-"The proposed
Increased Rates. construction of three first-class But to what extent increased!! passenger ships for the San freight rates will affect Marine's! Francisco Hne will be watched not earnings in 1926, it is difficult to only in Japan, but by the world's estimate, for, the reason that! shipbuilding experts. These costs of cperation have also ad- ships can be built entirely of vanced considerably... Bunker materials produced in Japan and coal and fuel oil have risen in there is no necessity for the use price. the former to $8 a ton as of foreign materials, due to the compared with $5 a ton a honth remarkable development which or so ago. Bunker coal in United this nation has made in the tech-Kingdom ports, is $22 a ton, and nical arts and ship engineering to avoid coaling in British or Con- We deem it proper to construct tinental ports Vessels are loading. these ships of materials produced up with coal here for the round in Japan alone"
trip. In addition to the fact that bunker coal is higher in, price, it is obvious that coal for the re- turn trip takes up cargo space
FREIGHT CHARGES.
COMPETITION AMONG CARGO VESSELS,
Wall Street has not yet official- ly digested the significance of the return to the Marine 'board of Messrs. Morgan and Steele. The statement has been made that Morgan, Grenfell and Company" SHIPPING INADEQUATE. were concerned with negotia- tions for sale of the White Star Competition among traders for Line, as representatives of the;
Furness, Withy British cargo vessels of all types Rumours of the sale of Marine's syndicate.. has caused freight charges to be erack subsidiary have been in the trébled in the course of
& few wind for so long that they die montha, an investigator for a hard. But the puzzling factor London newspaper has found. Habout the failure of the latest states that the keen demand for made at the time negotiations negotiations lies in the statement steamers, due mainly to a call for were temporarily dropped some ships to transport сод from America to Great Britain, has prov-vanced was that the coal atrike months ago. The reason ad- ed that the total value of shipping made the immediate future of ir commission is inadequate to meet world requirements.. Great quanti of advancing freight rates and shipping doubtful. In the light ties of rice, grain, and so forth, the current hue and cry for avait shipment in India, Australia tonnage, indicating a localised and the Far East Fortunes he de- and temporary shortage of bot clares, have been made by the toms, the effect of the coal strike, shipowners who were scarcely keep-to-shipping interests particularly, ing their heads above water a few would appear to have been clear months ago.
As much as £10,000
Negotiations On.
ous state of affairs can be maintain-been aware of the status of nego
Furthermore, it is reported in profit is being made on a single
How long such a prosper circles, which previously have no-one can foretell. Unfor- tunately it is too often the case that under discussion with a group of tiations, that another plan is one man's loss is another man's British shippers and bankers on a gain, and to this instance the ship more favourable basis than pre- owners are pronting by the coal- vailed in the Furnes Withy owners calamity. However, this transaction. This would indicate crnnot be said of the shipbuilding that, should the reported deal be industry, for thousands of workers consummated, Marine would re- were thrown out of employment ceive payment for its White Star when the mines closed down. It is stock over a shorter period than to be hoped that the shipping boom was offered previously, or within will be maintained now that the the term to the International mines have boon opened. At all Mercantile Marine 6 per cent. events the shipyards may resume bonds which mature in 1941. operations.
voyage.
ed
The Stabilimento Tecnico Tries tino have launched from their San AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT Marco yard the motorship "Romole"
LINE.
Operated for
U. S. Shipping Board
By SWAYNE & HOTT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
BS. "WEST ISLIP" Dec. 20. "FOR MANILA & CEBU
For full information apply to SWAYNE & HOYT, INC L EVERETT, Inc. General "Agenta Telephone C. 3008
1st Floor, Queen's Building.
for the Lloyd Triestino to be em- ployed on the company's service from the Adriatic to the Far East. together with the "Romo," which is: In course of, construction: The motorships. "Esquilino" and "Vimi- nale" are at present maintaining thía service. The "Romolo" is of the double-deck type, with accom modation for, 60 passengers amid- ships in large single and double, cabins, Also amidships are, & pro menade deck verandah, smoking | room and music room, as well as
· officers' cabing," "The "Romaolo" has six large batches, served by sixteep electric winches.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1926,
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC. TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.
SAILINGS 1927.
STEAMERS EMPRESS OF AŠIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
Thara
H'Kong S'ha! Kobe
Loave Leave LORVO Leave
Jan 5 Jan.
Vrar Arrive
Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 13 8 Jan. 11 Jan. 14 Jan. 33
Fob, 16 Feb. 19 Fob. 22 Feb. 25 Mar. Mar 9 Mar, 12 Mar. 15 Mar: 18 Mar. 27 Mar. 30 Apr. 2 Apr. 5 Apr. 8 Apr. 17 Apr. 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 26 Apr 29 May 8 May 11 May 14 May 17 May 20 May 29 June 1 June 4 June 7 June 10 June 19 June 22 June 25 June 29 July 1 July 18. July 11 July 14 July 19 July 22 July 31] (E/Asia and E/Russia call Nagasaki day after departure from Shanghai) 'Connecting sailings St. John to Liverpool,
EMPRESS OF ASIA' EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA
MONTROSE February 4
MONTNAIRN February 19
MONTCALM. March 12
MONTROSE MONTCLARE'
MINNEDOSA
April 1
April 23
May 13
Frequent sailings to Liverpool. Belfast, Glasgow, Southampton,
Cherbourg and Antwerp.
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN.
Early application for space is advisable.
SPECIAL FARES TO EUROPE
$320
HONG KONG MANILA SERVICE
£112
£83
Leave Hong Kong Dec.. 25 "
Arrive
Manila
Leave Manila
Dec. 27
EMPRESS OF CANADA Dec. 23
Arriva HongKo
Dec.. 80
CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS
TRAVELLERS CHEQUES PATABLE. THE WORLD OVER,
THE SAFEST AND MOST CONVENIENT WAY TO CARRY FUNDS.. Passenger Department: Tel 01752- Freight and Express:
CHY
Tel. C:42
Cables: "GACANPAC"
Cables: "NAUTILUS.”
LOONG.
New Season. Preserved Ginger.
Beat quality-Prompt attention to Exporters.
Ofics:-231, Queen's 'Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530,
Factory:---500-504,. Canton Road, Yaumatt Tel. E. 869.
BANK LINE LTD.
AGENTS FOR
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.
UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT .
S.S. "CITY OF GLASGOW” Passenger Service,
For M'a'lles, L'don, H'burg & Havre
8.5. "CITY OF LAHORE" ... London, Havre, Rotterdam & 'burg
Fures to LONDON: 1st Class £72, 2nd Class £49 10s. S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA” Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg...
Fares: 1st Class to MARSEILLES £73; to LONDON £80. 2nd Class to MARSEILLES £51; to LONDON £55.
AUSTRALIA
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ELLERMAN LINE
13th Jan.
9th February.
4th March.
AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Sailings from SINGAPORE & 6th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO" or "CITY OF SPARTA'
to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and vice versa.. Through Freight and Passenger bookings from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Ellerman" Line or
other services.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE....AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE"
S.S. "COLORADO”,
vía Suez Canal
ALSO AGENTS FOR
ANDREW WEIR
SERVICES TO
BOSTON, NEW YORK & HAVANA
via Suez Canal M.V. "WERBANK” MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
.27th December.
& CO.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
...30th January. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
Loading for Mauritius, Delagoa Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay
and Capetown.. Through Bill of Lading isaped to Beira, Quilimaine, Ibo. Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinda, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and
Madagascar.
For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-
Telephone
.. Central 4791.
SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
THE BANK LINE, LTD.
-DRY DOCK- Length 787 Feet. “
TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPY
ENGINEERS.
Tal, Address: “TAIKOODOCK.” HONGKONG. Telephone: Central No. 212.
©Cal Flag: “C” over “ANS, PENNANT!""
Length on Blocks 750 Feet, Depth on Centre of
·SI (H.W.O.S.T.) 84 fl. 4. 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 Foot Radios.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS HONGKET CHINA & JAPAN