:
· SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1927.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL, AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGOTM" FOR
STRAFTS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF. WEST INDIES, MAURITHIS, BAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUPING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND. PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT. CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS. EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY "DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Finder Contract with H.M. Government.)
Friz Neon. 10,918 60 e Feb.
Su
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About
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8.155
KIDDERPORE.
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4,854
10:002:
9.006
5,283
C
NELLORE
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KASPAR
· NAGPORE
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DEVANWA
DENTA
MALWA KLIVA
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MACEDONIA
5,334 130.
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19 Feb
Mad Munch
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211
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186,504 | 19:1 March
18,120 201
9th April
8:55: 1h April
April 2016 April April
8.097. 10.1
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10:902; 110:
June
9.006 25th June
1
12,14
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Destination
“ARROGANCE.”
THE CHINA MAIL
HOME UNIVERSITIES UNDER FIRT
London, Jan., 12.
198. IN THE BANK. SHIPPING ACCIDENTS
SOLICITOR VALUES HIS ESTATE AT £50,000..
PRESSURE ON DRY DOCK' SPACE:"
A debtor's batate Said to be worth,
"Singapore, Jan. 20. anything between £50,000 and Mr. C. F. G. Mastorman. In an £100,000 was mentioned when the
The dry docks at Keppel Hur article in the "Evening Standard" creditors met before Mr. Walter our are having a rush time just sharply criticises the elder univer Boyle, senior official receiver, under now. alties. He says that the head of a receiving order made aguiast In addition to the Royal Farge Industrial firm told him that Arthur Chapman, of 8, Warwick Star" which is undergoing ex- "one of the things I cannot ander-court. Gray's Inn, W.C., solicitor. tensive though only temporary stand about a unhirsity education | Mr. Boyle dealt with proofs of repairs, the Heup Bng Moh is that it deem't always produce debt amounting to 12,500 and Steamship Company's steamor that power to as: the other man's other aims were hot at by credi-Ban Hong Leong," in the com- tors. No statement of affairs had and of Captain H. Griffiths,
Viewpoint. It ought to do."
I workers
"Mr. Masterman declares that the
Mr. Masterman also mentions the been lodged by the debtor. refusal of a famous manufacturer Mr. Boyle said he knew that Me went ashore on the Pandjang to employ Oxford and Cambridge, Chapman had gone to the court and reef, in the Java Sea, last Friday, men, because of their unintentional stated that he was incapable of and will have to put in for repairs. arrogante in dealing with the managing his aftales, and that, a re- A British steamer, the "Asiatle
ceiver was appointed
Mr. Potnek, who had acted us re-bri Manila, has stopped at Prince" bound for New York ceiver, unid that it was thought that monstrous cost of residential uni-the estate was of the gross value of Singapore and is expected" to oc-
education debars the Įversity
children of the professional classes between 250,000 and 100,000 cupied by the "Royal Star" as who have been replaced by the had not yet had time to ascertain soon as it is available.
whether these valuos were correct. Children of the profiteers."
The damage is believed to be He understood they were the values extensive. Dean inge. replying, denies Ox placed by Mr. Chapman "ford and Cambridge snobbishness. months ago or his properties.
fic believe that some colleges A Creditor: Is there any money in warm with tame Bolshevists whose the bank About 199.. I believe. sentiments are bloodcurdling · Thị The meeting passed a resolution their fervency. "There is no class for bankruptcy and appointed a consciousness about them. They trustee of the estate. jabe absurd young people to wḥom the years will bring a philosophie niind."
DEATH PACT.
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Nome
Denn Inge's information fa, that the heads of big business are rather keen to engage university men of the right sort. Gentlemen get onA PRETENCE OF DRINKING better than faremen promoted from
Sagapore, Pening, Colonha & B'bay the worka. Maarelles and London
1)
blogupere, Penang, Colanihu. & bay Spor, Perang, Clombo & Bombay Marze
Hes. Londd, Antwerp & Hull hore, Penang. Colbette et anlay Marselies & London, Marshes, quon, Antwerp & R'dom Bu Me, 'den, Fburg&R'dam hore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay Marseilles & London, &London M'Hex, Lion,
Awerp, R'dum & Hull
& Antwerp Singapore, Penang. Colombe & B'bay Mars. Hes and Lonton Marseiler, London
& Antwerp
Mar stiles & London.
Marseilles
and London
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
FR 23. July irreilles and London
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople. Pirenas, Smyrna and other Bevant Ports, by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship. Co.,
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TALAMBA
TIEAWA
11.
TALMA
SIRALA
-#
8,800 Int Feb. 10,000 11th Fab. 10,000 14th Feb.
7,847 1st March
Singapore, Penang & Calcuzti Singapore, Persing & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcusta Singapore, Purging & Calentin
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
TANDA
ST. ALBANS ARAFURA
6,966 1 41 March 4,500 1st April 6.000 1 29th April 3rd June 4.064 ST. ALBANS | 4,500 1st July
TANDA
ARAFURA
6,000 29th July
Manila, Sandakan, Iloilo, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney
Melbourne
3
Regular monthly sailings from Honghong to Japan and Hongkong - to Australia.
The B. & A.-S.S, Co, Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hoilo, Cebu, Kolambugan. Tawang Timor, Darwin, or other ports en roule as inducement
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:
#
The Union SS. Company's Reamers to the United Kingdom via New Zegund. Vancouver. San Francisen, etc.
4
The P & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London vin Suez Canal.
The P. & Branch Service of steamera, to Londen via the Cape.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steniners for Southampton and London vin Panama Canal,
11
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
MANTUA NELLORE
SHIRALA
NASPORE
TANDA" MONGOLIA NYANZA TAKLIWA MACEDONIA
ST. ALBANS
KHYBER DEVANIA
i 10.002: Ath Feb.
6,863 !
Feb. SIN 78417th Feb.
Shanghai, Moli and Kobe
Shanghai. Mali and Kobe Shanghai, Moji & Kobe
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama
The main question seems to be, • run a lhornl education as opposed". Flo a technical exfucation and ap prontincahip to some calling hole
POISON.
:
"
London-A story of incredible heartlessness fa disclosed by the death of Madame T. Jamotte. postmistress of Mehari Court,
its own under modern conditions? To the older generation the outinek
gems Black. Indee, we try hard says a message from Paris to impress upon our young hope-
the slightest attention.
sees
Recently divorced, she met a
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SHIPPING TONNAGE,
London, Dec. 23: Sir Walter Runelman. President the Chember of Unipping, writ king in the "Glasgow Herald,"" denier Pat the raipping tonnage is as ex- zeozive as pessimists asseri
He it Eof the oplition that Brylain is ap
proaching the stage where the cargo
barely.wuileient to keep an eff cient toilage fully employed. The ecanation of immoderate building for a year or two, he says, coupled with trading activity, should adjust
e balancs.
"
EASTERN PORTS' HÉLA! TH fols that "life is real and life is young man through a matrimon- earnest Young people don't pay liat agency and fell violently in The health bulletin of Eastern
They love. Her suitor, declaring that parta for the week ended Jan. spend their days and nights in lawful union was impossible, per-reads:- whirl of giddy though innocent dissuaded her that the only solution) Pingue: 4 cones at Reunion, Į at sipation.
was to die together, Madame Mauritius, 7 at Rangoon, 1 at Mr. Mastermun says he
[Jamotte agreed, and drank heroin, Colombo, 1 at Soutela. R undergraduates living in this cul
Macassar. He pretended to do the same, pably frivolous manner, but thy
Cholera: 58 cases at Cal-utta, 2 disease is not peculiar to one class but in reality only drank chablis at Madras, 6 at Negapa am, a It runs right through the nation When the poison began to act on Rangoon, at Bangkelt, I at Osaka.
We the woman the man ransacked the from the top to the bottom.
Small-pex: 101 cases at Calcutta. want a revival of Puritanism. We post office and decamped with at Mudras, 4 ab Rangoon, 6 at cannot expect either the le rich 1,500 francs.
Tuticorin, 3 at Sourabsin, 5 at.
for the working-man to take the lead. A postman discovered Madame Padang, 2 at Bangkok, Fat Sheng-
There is a chance for the univerJamotte dying, but she refusedha 11 at Vladivostok. sities to gird up their loins and treatment, declaring that she pre- show what those who covet er ferred death. nestly the goal.gifts, may make out ¡of life.
'PRISON "HABIT."
A LAND WIFERE. ALL HAVE
BEEN, JAILED. -
London.--Mensry. Beckett and Shepherd, M.F., who visited Poland in consequence of allegations of brutal treatment of prisoners in Polish jails, made in the House of Commons, have returned.
.
The police are searching for the
GUILD OFFICES REMOVED."
man,
It is officially notified by an' ad- vertisement on page 3, that the
WOOSTER'S VISION, fees of the two local mercantile
MURDER THAT WAS NOT PREDICTED.
San Francisco. - Six months ago Mry, Robert Pepper They state that prisoners are had her future read by often detained for five years with-| female fortune-teller named
marine officers" "(deck and engine-} room) gulids will be removeil on Tuesday to Stephen's Building, 3rd loor file, above the former Central Fire Station in Des Varus 'Central).
Batavia reports that 267 rebels. out a trial. They are beaten and Wooster, who told her that were captured and 70 persons killed tortured with electric wires, in
in the Samarang fights. der to induce them to make con-her husband did not love her, but fessions against Communists. that her neighbour, whose picture]
"Poland has the prison habit," she described so accurately that The Washington Congress is to said Mr. Shepherd. "Everyone, from Mrs. Pepper recognised him as consider a motion for the construe- General Pilsudski, downwards, has Jim Williams, would enter into tion of a giant moter-road from been in prison at some time.” -
Her life and overflow it with hap- Mexico and Central-Americs to piness.
To-day Mr., Pepper lies murder- ined, and Williams has been arrest-
ed as a material witness.
WATER SUPPLY. Love and Storage of water Reservoirs, on January 1, 1927: CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
1920
South-America.
Following an urgent British re- quest Jugo-Slavia proposes to re- Jaume the negotiations without de- lay for funding the $40,000,000 debt to England.
1027 35 B. 13′18′′E. 2x 4"B. 25' 4"B.)
While working cargo at Ken- "A message from Detroit 04"B. Level
a coolje states that it was announced that nedy Town yesterday, B. 1211 E. 2′′B. Wong Nei Chung 21′ 4′′B, 15′ 2′′E. Captain-G. H-Wilkins will make was killed through being crushed
Peb.
Feb.
Moji, Kebe, Osaka & Tokolia ma Shanghai & Kobe
Tytum Tylam Byewash .... 22 Tytum Intermediate Tytam Tak
5.283, th Fub. BLANK MU
26,504 | 184
7.023 11
10,000 | 18th Feb.
11th
Kobi, Moji and Kobe
Shanghai, Moji and Kob
Maji, Kole, Osaku & Yokohama March Shanghai, Moji and Kobe 18th March Shanghai, Meji and Koba 27th March Shanghai. Moji & Kobe 1st April Shanghai, Moji & Kobe Shanghai Moi & & Kobe
11.120
4,600
9.255
5.952
MALWA
10,980
DELTA
8,007
ARAFURA
6.000
1.000.
1st GUN
PERIN
7,848
NELLORE
KHIVA
NYANZA
MOREA
12th April 6,853 16th April 16th April 7,023 20th April 10,953 20th April
Mot, Kobe. Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji and Kobe Shanghai Moji and Kobe
Shanghai, Moil and Kobe Shanghai, Maji & Kobe Shanghai, Moji & Kobe
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL, STEAMERS.
Passengers for Ransom must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapara while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge, Steamers on London and Australian Lincs are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to salting.
For further information, Passage Froights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents.
P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG.
Pokfulun
13' 0"B. 1711 B. a second attempt to explore the between the junk and the sea-" Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow":Arctic "blind spot" in the spring. wall and his body was picked up A denotes "Above Overlow."
He is being financed entirely by out of the harbour. Storage in millions and decimals
the "Detroit News.",
of "gallons.
Tytanı Tytam Byewash
Tytam Intermediate.
Tytam Tuk......... Wong Nei Chung Pokfulum
1926 1927 140.40 278.72
1.74 197:78. 105.90
.59
841.00 1,321.75 SUNRISE, AND SUNSET IN HONG
8.90 13.50 20.80 28.36
Totul
1,225,18 1,688.91 Consumption of water in the City! and Hill District in millions and de- eimals of gallons during the month of Decembar
1926
19.3
1
KONG FOR JAN,, 1927.
(Standard Time of the 120th Meridian, East of Greenwich.),
Data.
"1926 226.84 244.29 January Consumption Estimated Population 387,300 407,620
per day (gallons) ་ ་' 18,4 Full Supply in all Rider Main Dis- tricts up to the 8th December' and Intermittent Supply in all Rider Main Districts from 9th to 31st December 1923. Full Supply in all Rider Main Districts during December, 1926 with the exception of the districts West of Eastern Stroot whore an Intermitten Supply was given from 4th to 81st December, 1920.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS
LEVEL;
1026 1927
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE Kowloon Gravitation .19 7B. 7'0"B.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE
MUTUAL SN, CO, LTV.
(OCEAN S.3. CO, LTD. & CHINA, MUTUAL
AND
·AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
* (ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL SS. CO., LTD.)</
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
6.6. "PELEUS"
Vin Suer Canal
* 8.8. “CITY OF BRISTOL"
BRISTOL"
do.
8.8. ATREUS".
do.
8.8. "TEUCER" ".
do.
25th February.
5th March,
25th March. 6th April.
Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option
Subject to change without notice.
For Freight and particulars apply to:-o BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or "THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON A CO., LTD., Canton
a.m.
Sunrise Sunse p.m. .7.04 6.10
1
M7.03 7.08
6.10
6:11
·HONGKONG HOTEL VISITORS,
January 28, 1927.
J. J.
Mr. C. P. Anderson, Mrs. Sylvia Shek Lai Pui Reservoir 73, 7"B. de Acuna, Messrs. F. Bumann,
Mr. 84 B. Baumer,
and Mrs. Reception Reservoir..
Storage in millions and decimals 'Bollard,' Mrs. G. W. Clark,
of gallons..
Меангв. R. H. Cross, R. L 1926 1927 Devaud, J. M. Dalgarno, W. A. Kowloon Gravitation 179.75 285.50 Dowley, G. H. Evans, A. F. Henry, Shok Lal, Pul Roserveis --82,86 - 98,10 W Hagen, F. H Hill, Capt. 7. P. Reception Reservoir..
Hall, Mesars. B. R. B. Jones, H. A
•Total..
202.00-400.45 Keller, W. Lythzoe, La Lim Ioc and Consumption of water in Kowloon Party, K. C. Loo, Misa R. Liilte, in millions and decimals of gallone dur. Mrs. J. Masseburg, Miss Mac- ing the month of December.
Lean, Mr. and Mrs. C. Molse, 1925 1026 Masers. H. H. Muller, LE. Hantz, 88.27 74.89 F. J. O'Brien, H. D. Orr. F. S. Odom, Estimated population. 168,100 168,140| Miss M. E. Pipkin, Mesura. A. W. por day (gallons) 14.4 16. Prior, H. Pearman, C. R. Powrie,
Consumption
Full Supply in all districts during W. Staad, E. Stuhlmacher, H. A
December 1925 and 1928.·
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Savage,
The Goverment Analyst's *TOPOTI# show that the quality of the water Messrs. R. E. Thihand, S.. Vulaat, G satisfactory.
Total rainfall to December 31, 1920, 87.58 December 81, 1928, 100.78.
Wrange, W. Wier, Mr. and Mrs.
F. E. Wook, Mr. and Mr. R. Watson, Mias A. H. Whealer.
NYKLINE
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
* KOREA MARU (Calla. Kuohung)........ Sunday, 3th Fab., at Noon. SHINYO MARU
Tuesday, 2nd February.. SIBERIA MARU (Calls Keolung)... Sunday, 3th March
"Calls Los Angeles.
SOUTH AMERICA via Japan, Honolulu, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Mexico & Panama. GINYO MARU
ANYO MARU
Saturday, 20th Feb, at Noon, Tuesday, 3rd May, at Noon,
MARSEILLES, LONDON, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via Ports.
HAKOZAKI MARU
HAKUSAN MARU
KITANO MARU
Saturday, 12th Fib., at 11 a.. Saturday, 28th Fob., at 11 am. Saturday, 12th March.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
MISHIMA MARU
TANGO MARU
.Wodreadny, 23rd Feb., at 11 am.
Wednesday 23rd March..
13
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA, "
TATSUNO MARU-
... Wednesday, 9th February. CALCUTTA MARU
Monday, 21st February, LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Portà.
TAJIMA MARU (culla Glasgow)... Saturday, 5th February. BUENOS AIRES vla Singapore, Durban & Cape Town.
KAMAKURA MÁRU
Saturday, 613 February.
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,
AWA MARU'
SEIYO MARU
CALCUTTA: via SINGAPORE, PENẠNG & RANGDONİ
MORIOKA MARU
NAGATO MARU
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
TANGO MARU
SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
HAKATA MARU (Calls Takao) LIMA MARU (Calla. Moji) NAGANO MÁRU (Moji direct) HARUNA MĀRU
Thursday, 10th February. Tuesday, 22nd February.
Monday, 31st January,
Tuesday, 8th February..
Friday, 19th February..
Monday, Saturday.
31st Jan..
5th February,
Friday, 4th February.. Monday, 7th February.
we further information apply to-NIPPON YUSEN KAISLA. Tel Central No, 292 (Private exchange to all departs.)
CHINA BORNEO SHIPPING CO.
HONG KONG--BORN EU ROYAL, MATE SERVICE To Sandakan, Tawau, Semporna and Lakad Datu,
Returning via Sandakan, Jambongan and Jesselton.
"The BS. "Lok Sun" enrrying His Majesty's Mail will be despatched from this port to British North Borneo Ports na above named on or about February 6th at 4-00 p.m.
For Freight, Passage and Parcel Rates apply:- CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, Agents, Queen's Building, Phone C.282 for W. WATT & CO., Agents, 27. Connaught Road West, Phone, C.4908.
THE AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD
For SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE via Manila, allo, Sandakan, Balikpapan & Rabaul
For Freight & Particulars Apply to---
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Agents:
Telephone No. Central 1030.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC "ADDRESS: "MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.
Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering: First and Second Edition;
Western Union and Watkins,
DOCK OWNERS, SIJI" BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEER BOILER
MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTE
ELECTRICIANS.
T. S. S. “SIANG WO”
Passenger & Cargo River Steamer, built and engined at Kowloon Dock, by the Hongkong
& Whampoa Dock Co. Ltd, to the order of he Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd.,
for cervice on the Middle Yangtze, Hankow - I-ching.
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:
R. M. DTER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.