THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1927..
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGO FOR
· STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
Destination
S. S.
Tons
From Hongkong About
KRIVA
9,136
9th July
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
ALIPORE
5,273 21st
July
Straits
MACEDONIA ·
11,120 23rd
July
& Bombay Marseilles & London
KALYAN
Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull
NYANZA
7,023
KASHGAR
0,005 674
Aug. Aug.
Straits & Bombay
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
RAWALPINDI
DEVANHA
16,619 8,155
20th Aug.
Marseilles & London
3rd Sept.
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
MOREA
10,963
KHYBER
9,114
17th Sept. 1st Oct.
Marseilles & London
9,144 27th July
Marseilles & London
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Constantinople, Piroans, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Khedival Mall Stearnship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
PALMA 'TAKLIWA
TILAWA
10.000 3rd July 7,338 12th July 10,005 22nd July
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
1st July Manila. Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, &
ST. ALBANS
ARAFURA TANDA
4,500 1
11 a.. 6,000 29th July 6,058 2nd Sept.
Melbourne,
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawau, Timor. Darwin, or other porta un route as inducement *ffers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 5.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canul.
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
OIL ENGINES.
THE CHINA MAIL.
MECHANICAL INJECTION
DEVELOPMENTS.
MARITIME CLUBS.
CAMARADERIE OF THOSE WHO "GO DOWN TO THE SEA."
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P
There is
and
HIGH-SPEED SEMI- SUBMERSIBLE.
An Italian Invention.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
AND
The Milanese engineer, Signor AMERICAN MAIL LINE
At the meeting of the Diesel
probably more Bugatti, has laid before Signor. Engine Users Association which cameraderie among those who go Mussolini the details of an inven- was held on April 29, a paper by down to the sea in ships than tion in marine construction with Mr. Oswald Wans on "Further members of other professions and
motor power calculated to reduce Developments in Mechanical In- this is aald without belittling in the time to cover the distance jection Oil Engines" was read and any way the club organisations between Rome and New York to
where those of similar pursuits fifty hours. discussed.
The author said that during the meet to exchange news
"The technical details of the last few years marked improve views. The recently instituted:
correspondent ments had been effected in both Company of Master Mariners is stand," states tret, but I under; two and four-cycle engines of something beyond a social organ of the "Morning Post." (London) British design and manufacture. leation, however, dealing as it that it is a semi-submerged type, The call for vertical engines has does with the professional status resulted in the building of larger of the sea-going officers and leav-814 feet long by a little over 3 feet broad. Its shape recalls the units, and to-day four-cycle landing the less important, but none submarine, and like the submarine engines ranging up to 1,000 the less essential matters of en-it is equipped with a means of b.h.p. and two-cycle marine entertainment and friend "pidgin,
די
JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
A Regular Weekly Sailing TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE.
PRESIDENT LINERS”
THE “
TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
"THE SUNSHINE BELT"
gines up to 5,500 b.h.p. were avail-to the many clubs which have control of air circulation under able, and these did not represent been founded for those of the Anormal atmospheric priced. PRESIDENT JEFFERSON ]...Monday, July 4th Midnight
cloth who wish to meet others All controls have been duplicated. the possible power limit.
CONSIGNEES.
Some five years ago, when he away from shipboard. One of the The eight motors installed develop had read a paper before the best institutions of social kind is altogether 2,000 h.p." Diesel Engine Users' Association the Seven Seas Club in London, on "Some Recent Developments in which has an ever increasing Mechanical Injection Oil En-membership, with a monthly ban- gines," he had hazarded the quet held at which all meet on opinion that the system would be common ground. It is suggested SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. more widely used. Not only had by a writer in a Home Journal this proved true, but there were which deals with maritime affairs!
.CONSIGNEE NOTICE, indieations of its still more that there will probably be a extended application; this seem fusion of interests as between the HE Steamship
THE
"SPHINX". ed inevitable in view of the sim-Club and the Company and at and first the arrangement appears to
BRINGING CARGO from Marseilles, be admirable. Nevertheless, therec, also Cargo from Bordeaux La plicity, proved reliability
are certain obstacles to the com- Pallice, Cognac &c. ex 5.5. "JEAN
efficiency of the system.
Higher Compression Pressures.
In reviewing the progress made bination and although these are DOUBLET and Cargo from La in the mechanical injection two- not insuperable, the points of con- Pallice, Cognac &c. ex a.a. "MEI- cycle engine, the outstanding tact will have to be well defined, NAM". feature was the adoption of high-if the Club and the Company are
CONSIGNEES are hereby inform-
cr compression pressures; in to retain their distinctive features led that their goods with the fact, this departure was mainly and thrive along their own speci-exception of Opium, Treasure and responsible for the advance that fic lines. The Club may well be- Valuables are being landed and
made. had been
Fortherly come an adjunct to the Company stored into the Godowne of the lbs. as an affiliated concern, but with- HONG KONG KOWLOON WHARF 160 to pressures per square inch
gen-out any control of the administra-& GODOWN CO, LTD., KOW- eral
and neces-tion vested in the Council of the LOON, whence delivery may be practice,
they obtained immediately after landing. sitated the use of an unjacketed Company, except when
180
were
DAMAGED PACKAGES will be
hot bulb, but with the advent of might act as a Second Chamber in All claims must be sent in to me higher pressures this unsatisfac-the framing of professional policy on or before THURSDAY, the tory feature had been discarded. that may develop from move 30th instant, or they will not be Probably the first engine to ments within the Club, although recognized, break away from general practice as a matter of fact the social was that built by Messrs. Plenty side of the Club, rather than the examined by the Company's Sur- in the presence of the, Consignees compression pressure of 220 lbs. feature. It has invariably been at 10 am, on MONDAY, the 27th and Son, Ltd., in 1920, in which a political side, is its predominant or. Messrs. Goddard & Douglas
found in other spheres that when June, 1927. per square inch was employed.
W08
No Fire Insurance will be effected
J. LIMAGE,
Hong Kong, 21st June, 1927.
Agent.
MARITIMES.
In the new Vickers-Petters en-the social comes in contact with gine the compression pressure had the political, a breach results and been carried higher, being about this is the last thing to be desired by us in any case whatever. 320 lbs. per square inch. The in the profession. In any event, cylinder-head completely the innate good sense and staunch water-jacketed, the jacket over conversatiam of the members of the combustion chamber proper both organizations may be relied being in the form of a large upon if the fusion comes about, separate detachable-cover, which to prevent any disturbance of the COMPAGNIE-DES-MESSAGERIES-
relationship which could be clear out sediment from already exists in an unofficial way.
completely removed in excellent the water space. A small pocket Both the Club and the Company- was provided suitable for a start- are going strong and as Unity is ing plug, either of the electric or Strength, perhaps the balance of
Many im-logic is on the side of some sort THE Steamship lamp-heated type. provements had been effected in of combination, but exactly what the general design, and a marked this will mean is a matter for the BRINGING CARGO from Dunkirk, reduction had been effected in the respective leaders of the move-Antwerp, London, &c. consumption of lubricating oil, ments. which was generally high in two- cycle engines of the crank-case scavenge type.
Four-Stroke Engines. The
made with progress four-cycle engines of the mechani-
cal injection type had been mark-
MARINE INSURANCE.
In a recent number of "The ed. Prior to 1921 mechanical in- Marine Underwriter," Mr. C.
THE
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
“YANG-TSE"
CONSIGNEES are hereby in-
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
PRESIDENT MADISON
.Tuesday. July 19th.
.Tuesday,
Aug. 2nd.
..Tuesday,
Aug. 16th.
..Tuesday,
Aug. 30th.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.
PRESIDENT JACKSON PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
HONG KONG TO EUROPE SPECIAL LOW RATES.
Via San Francisco or Seattle.
£120 £112
DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES
Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for Sightseeing, Ask for information. Following are suggested Itiner- aried:-
Obra-bmpto Aug. Obry-8′′kupin
Ana
Pmth-Obry ARE Ứbe-8hmpta Aug
From
Hongkong
Via
Connecting with Stahip
From N. York
Arriving at
Jaly
Bafosile Berengaria Leviathan Aquitanis Majouta
Aug.
Aug. 10
Aug. 20
Aug. 24
Bept.
Mauretania Sept, & Olymplo
Sept. 17
Berengarin
Sept. 11
Homeric
1
Aquitania Majalle
Och,
5
Oct. 15
Leviathan
CL $
San Francisco July 13 Seattle July 19 San Francisco July 27 Seattle Aug 3 Ban Francisco Aug. 10 Beastie Aug. 16 San Francios Aug. 24 Seattle
Aug. 30 Ban Francisco Bept. 7 Battlo Bapt. 13 Ban Francisco Set 21 Bestile
30
Obrhmpta Bept. 9 Puth-Chry Bepi.
Olay 'bupta Sept. Obry-8'mpta Bept,
brg-Bbmptn Ubrg-hmptn-. Oct. Gorg-Bhupin Oct.
Oct. brg-hmpin
TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA, VIA SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE”
PRESIDENT GRANT PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PRESIDENT PIERCE PRESIDENT TAFT
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON
Wednesday, July 13th
Wednesday, July 27th,
Wednesday, Aug. 10th.
Wednesday, Aug. 24th
Wednesday, Sept. 7th.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Wednesday.
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK.
VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ- PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES
-GENOA-MARSEILLES,
'.
Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK.
formed that their goods with the PRESIDENT VAN BÜREN...Tuesday, July 5th 8.00 a.m.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamere for Southampton and jection had been almost entirely Hochgraber compares, in all on or before THURSDAY, the 30th
exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being lauded and stored Into the Godowns of the HONG KONG KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., KOW- LOON, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing. All claims must be sent in to me
or they will not be confined to horizontal engines, but erudite article the German, Bri- instant the requirements of central power tish and French law on unsea-recognized.
DAMAGED PACKAGES will Le stations had since rendered this worthiness as applied to marina type unsuitable, the demand being insurance, and shows that while examined by the Company's Surve- for higher rotational speeds and under German law, the onus of yar Messrs; Goddard & Douglas reduced floor space. On the other proof of unseaworthiness. is, in in the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on MONDAY, the 27th hand, for certain classes of work certain circumstances, on
London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TILAWA
ARAFURA
* NOVARA KASHGAR NYANZA
TARA SANTHIA
DEVANHA
15,006
2nd July Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka
6 a.. 6,000 5th July 6,989 7th July 9,305 8th July 7,023 8th July 6,322 13th July 7,764 18th July
22nd July
RAWALPINDI
10,819
8,155
6th Aug.
6,960
9th Aug.
10,053
19th Aug.
9,114
2nd Sept.
TANDA
MOREA KHYBER
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moll & Kobe Shanghai, Kobe & Osaka Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Oanka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moli, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama
Will not take passengera northwards,
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
* Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses
Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
the
the greater accessibility and slow-shipowner, and in English law it June, 1927.
1
PRESIDENT. POLK PRESIDENT ADAMS PRESIDENT GARFIELD PRESIDENT HARRISON
Tuesday, Aug. 2nd 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 16th 8.00 h .Tuesday, Aug. 30th 8.00 am. Tuesday, Sept. 13th 6.00 8.m.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.
TO MANILA.
PRESIDENT VAN BUREN PRESIDENT GRANT PRESIDENT LINCOLN PRESIDENT HAYES ....
·PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
July 5th July 11th
July 5th
8.00 a.
6.00 р..
6.00 p.m.
„July 19th ... - 6.00 à.m.
July 19th 6.00 p.m.
For Passenger and. Freight Rates apply to
is almost always on the under- No Fire Insurance will be effect- THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO
er speeds still offered advantages, writer, in French law there is no ed by us in any case whatever. and were considered sufficient to such thing as unseaworthiness, justify engines of this class.
or inherent vice
The author gave some interest. "vice propre," ing information concerning special taking its place, and sometimes features of the vertical engines being covered by the policy of in- which were made by Messrs. Aurance, as, for instance, when the inherent vice arises from An
to the Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd. interesting development was the circumstances known apparatus which had been devised underwriters. "With the many for checking the load on each line technicalities of the article it is By not proposed to deal at the present of a multi-cylinder engine. watching the fall of a series of time," says "Shipbuilding," but floats the rate of fuel supplied to the bare outline given above is cach cylinder was at once seen, sufficient to show that three great at and by means of the apparatus maritime nations have each a dif- the distribution of the load could ferent law on a subject of con- be checked in a few minutes, leav-siderable importance in insurance ing no excuse for a driver not practice. That this should be ao carrying out the procedure as a can hardly be desirable. In these days, when commerce is becoming The realisation of high thermal more and more international, it is efficiencies must be largely depen-surely incongruous that the most export, dent upon the heat-resisting pro-international invisible perties of the materials at the marine insurance, should be gov disposal. of the designer, and erned by varied codes on any im- although considerable strides had portant point. Because of this, it been made in this direction, there might be well if one of those was still much scope for investi- voluntary bodies which deal with the metallurgist and the engineer attention to this question of un- had in recent years produced seaworthiness, and examine the better materials and designs, with possibilities of creating a univer- marked improvement in the life of sal code for adoption by all mari- castings. Bubjected to high time nations." stresses and temperatures. Neverthless further progress was
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received daily duty. at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.
For further Information, Passage, Freights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG. Agents.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.ation. The closer work between international law were to turn its
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.
(OCEAN 8.8. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.N. CO., LTD.
'AND'
AMERICAN & MANCHUKIAN LINE
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.)
HAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
Via Suez Canal
5.3, "AGAPENOR”.
8.9. "CITY OF CHESTER" Vis Suez Canal
8.8. "HELENUS” MAHA Via Blez Canal- S.S. "CITY OF BEDFORD", Via Ster Caua)
1st July. 14th July, 81st July. 16th Aug.
at the present time restricted by this factor.
the purlys
$20 FOR HARBOUR OFFENCE.
While repairing in the dock of the Before Lt.-Comdr. G. F. Hole, Mercantile Dry Dock Co., Ltd.,
Commerce R.N., Marine Magistrate, in the Jarrow, the British took in 600 tons of all bunk- Marine Court this morning, the ers through pipo Inid master of the steam launch from the British Petroleum CosTong Choy" pleaded guilty to
Steamers proceed via Suez Cabal or Panama Canal at Gwners' Option ofl depot outside the dockyard. By using the wrong side of the fair.
Subject to change without notice
༢།
For Freight and particulars apply to:--- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong
Hong Kong & Cantón: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Canton.
this enterprise of bunkering the way Two previous convictions veasel while in dock, a considerable for similar, offences having been saving of time and expense will be effected, as the vessel, after being proved against him by Sergt. ucdocked, can proceed immediately Goldsmith, of the Water Folice, to sea.
he was fined $20
J. LIMAGE,
Agent Hong Hong, 22nd June, 1927,
GENERAL AGENTS.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor
Telephone. Centrul 2477, 2478 & 785.
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, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, ELECTRICIANS.
SS.
“TAIPING.”
Speed 14.77 LH.P. 4090 D.W. 4215 tons.
Built and engined by the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.
address enquiries to the Chief Manager:**
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MANA., Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.
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