FRIDAY, AUGUST 5. 1927,
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
THE CHINA MAIL.
MERSEY NAVIGATION
BOCK BOARD'S IMPORTANT CHANGES.
The Mersey Docks and Harbour. Board recently outlined the plans which they have in view for the modernisation of the present system of marking and lighting the en- trance to the port of Liverpool. These plans include the withdrawal of the North-Weat Lightship from Its station, and its substitution by
a boat beacon, and the placing of the Bar Lightship three-quarters of
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION 00 LTP,
Shanghai Canton
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
Salting
Destination
Steamer YUENSANG ... .Sat.,
6th Aug., at Ga.m.
CHIPSHING
Canton
YUSANG
Sandakan
.... HINSANG
.Sat., .Sat., .Sal.,
6th Aug, at 11 a.m.
8th Aug, at 11 a.m.
8th Aug, at 11 am,
Ttau via Swatow & S'hat WAISHING Canton
*Sun.,
7th Aug., at 10n.m.
HOPSANG
.Sun.,
7th Aug., at 1a.m.
Kobe vla Amoy, Shanghai, KUTSANG
Moji & Yokohama
Tues.,
9th Aug., at 7am.
HOSANG CHIPSHING
.Tues., Tues.,
a mile eastward of its present posi-Birails & Calentta 'tion.
The consideration of the pro- posals was postponed until the next meeting, In conformity with the standing orders of the Board.
The minute of the Marino Com- mittee read as follows:-
"The committee, having had un- der further consideration the sug gestions made for modernising the present system of marking and
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, lighting the entrance to the port.
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.)
S. S.
From
Tons Hongkong
Destination
Marseilles & London
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
About
RAWALPINDI
MOREA
DEVANHA
KHYBER.
10,610 10,953 8,155 9:174
20th Aug,
Marseillés & London
MALWA
! 10,980
KASHMIR
MACEDONIA
MONGOLIA
MANTUA
KASHGAR
3rd Sept. 17th Sept.
Oct 1st 15th Oct. 18,983
20th Oct. 12th Nov. 11,120 16,504 26th Nove 10,948 10th Dec. 9,005 24th Dec..
Marseilles & London Marseilles & London Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London Marseilles & London Marseilles and London Marseilles and London
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Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Canstantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
Cails at Port Sudan.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SANTHIA TALAMBA
7.754
14th Aug.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
3,918, 2nd Sept.
* Calls at Rangoon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
8,956 | 2nd Sept. ( Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, 4,500 30th Sept. Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, &
TANDA ST. ALBANS ARAFURA
6,000 28th Oct. Melbourne, Regular monthly sallings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.
Tientsin
Tau vie Swatow & B'hai HOPSANG Ttau via Swatow & Shai FOOSHING
FOOKSANG Straits & Calevita Osaka v. Amoy, Moji & Kobe NAMSANG
8th Aug., at 3p.m. 9th Aug., at 5p.m. Wed., 10th Aug., at 10a.m. .Sun. 14th Aug., at 10 a.m. Wed, 17th Aug, at 3 p.m. Mon, 22nd Aug., at 7 a.m.
For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.
PASSENGER LIST.
"ARRIVALS.
and reports as to deputations which have been received from the Liver- pool Steamship Owners' Association on the subject, together with memoranda from the Finance. Com- mittee, and the meeting of chair- men of committees on the subject having been submitted, it was re- Passengers arrived by the B... solved to recommend that the "Devanho" from Europe Via Ports marine surveyor and water balliff on August 4 were:-
General Managers.
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. AMERICAN & ORIENTAL, LINE,
From U.S.A.
be authorised to arrange for the Capt. R. Kettlewell, Surg.-Comdr. undermentioned changes in the Carroll. Pay-Comdr. Parsons, Mr.HE
HE Motor Vessel king of the entrance to the port D. H. Edwards, Mr. 1, a Bong, Mr.
"OAKBANK”
of
to be carried out, and for the pur- Mrs. A. E. Blackmore, Lt. J. A. Shoving arrived, Consignees chase in connection therewith of Eccles, Mr. F. MacDonald, Miss Cargo by her are informed that all such additional equipment as may R. J. Collins, Capt. V. G. Olive, Goods are being landed at their be necessary, at the total estimated Mr. R. W. Shaw, Bir. Moissevitch, risk into the hazardous and/or cost of £6,000.
Mr.-B. Zipper, Mr. C. H. Lim, Mr. extra-hazardous Godowns of the "1. The North-West. Lightship Tan Kuan-hal, Mr. Lee Yok-boon, Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & to be withdrawn from its station. Mr. Chan Tong-heng, Mr. Ho Koon- Godown Co, Ltd, whence delivery
"2. A boat beacon, with central hwa, Mr. Ho Koon-meng, Mrs. Yap may be obtained. lattice structure, painted red and Yun-tai, Mr. Chin Kah-gob, Mr. marked "North-West" in white R. B. Wright, Mr. P. E. Patell, Mr. the Goods have left the Godowns, No Claims will be admitted after letters on both sides, with a focal and Mrs. C. Chamier, Miss Rand all Goods remaining undeliver- plane of about 80 feet, and a white Vivienne. Miss D. Vivienne. Missed after 8th August, 1927, 4 pm.. light giving 60 flashes per minute. J. Norman, Mias J. Wren, Mr.
Lightship
to,
"8. The Bar be moved three-quarters-of-a-mile eastward, and the vessel supplied with a wireless beacon, having a range of 15 miles.
and Mrs. N. Crainicine.'
MODERN STEAMERS.
1.m.
together with an aerial bell to be Mason, Bir. K. Rayner, Mr. Fwill be subject to rent. placed on the existing North-West Collier, Mr. Bray, Mr. A. Reid, Mr. All Claims against the vessel Lightship station. and a duplicate v. C. Womack, Mr. N. Crainicine must be presented to the Under- thereof kept in stock.
signed on or before 15th August, 1927, or they will not be recognized. All broken, chafed and damaged, Goods are to be left.in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Monday, 8th August, 1927, at 10
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
THE BANK LINE, LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, 2nd August, 1927.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
"Further, that application be made to Trinity House for their statutory annction to the proposed UNLOAD INDEPENDENTLY OF changes, and to the Postmaster- General for the necessary licence for the wireless beacon."
Opposition.
PORT APPARATUS.
THE
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All the varied unloading appara→ | tus seen along our wharves- cranes, pneumatie plants, conveyors Mr. Charles Livingston, in mov- and telphers--though exactly suit ing the confirmation of the
pro ed to an entrepot trade, suffer from ceedings of the committee, said a cardinal defect as regards general these changes had been under con application. The cargo to be dis- sideration for a long time. At first charged can only be removed from they had met with very great op- the ship at a particular point of the position from various quarters, but port concerned, and apart from the what with meeting the various de drawback of a waiting list of ves putations and seeing the various insels, there are many places, parti- Steamship
"CHENONCEAUX” terests concerned he thought he cularly in partly-developed coun- BRINGING CARGO from Marseilles, might say that at least the greatest tries, where either tedious manual &c. also Cargo from La Pallice, part of this opposition had been methods have to be adopted, or the Cognac, Havre, &c. Ex. withdrawn, and that the shipowners goods transported by rail to another "Commandant Derise." and the various interests concerned port on the same seaboard. With -most of them, at any rate-now
CONSIGNEES are hereby inform- The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., ateamers will also call at Shanghal, Iloilo, Cebu, felt that this would be an improve want of flexibility vanished, and exception of Opium, Treasure and self-unloading apparatus this ed that their goods with the Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other porta en route as inducementment. They did not want to atand while it is not suggested that wharf Valzables are being landed and still in the port, and although there equipment will ever be obsolescent stored into the Godowns of the was an objection to withdrawing a vessel so fitted can be. run into
HONG KONG KOWLOON WHARF more or leas, at any rate, passed provided with discharging plant, a
fairly frequent condition in the LOON, whence delivery may be Mr. J. H. Beazley seconded, and smaller coastal towns even in this obtained immediately after lending. the proceedings were confirmed.
All claims must be sent in to me The following tenders
country, and by means of the self- were The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers-for-Benthampton and accepted: Repairs to locomotive, contained unloading gear, can de- on or before FRIDAY, the 12th the wharf it-instant, or they will not be recog- David Rollo and Sons, Ltd.; coal liver her cargo on
nized... carts thereon. Should there be no
offera.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:→
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newthe lightship he thought that had any port where the wharf is not & GODOWN CO., LTD.; KOW-
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape,
London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TANDA TALAMBA
MOREA
NAGPORE KHYBER
ET. ALBANS
NYANZA
HALWA
KASHMIR ARAFURA
6,950 8,018
8th Aug. 10th Aug.
10,969 19th Aug.
5,283 9,114
50th Aug. 2nd Sept. 4,500 6th Sept. 7,023 15th Sept. 10,088 10th Sept. .8,955
30th Sept. ⚫6,000 4th Oct.
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Oakı & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji & Kobe Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Osaka and Yokohama
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
*Fassengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.-
All Cabine are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge.
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.
away.
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
5
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
AND
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
A Regular Weekly Sailing.
TÓ SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE. THE "PRESIDENT LINERS"
·TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA, "THE SUNSHINE BELT”.
PRESIDENT JACKSON
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
PRESIDENT PIERCE
„Tuesday, Aug. 16th.
.Tuesday,
Aug. 30th.
Tuesday,
Sept. 13th.
.Tuesday,
Sept.. 27th.
.Tuesday,
Oct. 11th.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.
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-
aries:
From Hongkong
Vis
Connecting with Steamship
From N. York
Mauretania
Bapt. 6
Olympic
Sept. 17
Berengaria Homario Aquitania Mijetio
Bapl. 21
Oot. I
Oct. 5
Oct
15
Leviathan
Cot, 28
Olympic
Det. 29
Oct.
Berengaria
Nov. 2
Oct Oct. 19
11 Ban Francisco
Bextile
Leviathan
NOT. 12
Aquitania
Nov. 18
Mijostia
Nov. 28
Aug. 10 Seattle Aug. 16 Ban Franolico Aug. 23 Sekila Aug. 30 Han Francisco Sept. 7 Beattle Sept. 18 San Francisco Bopt. 21
Benitle Bapt. 17 San Francisco
Seattle
On 25 San Francisco
Arriving st
F'mtb-Ubrg
Bapt
Obrg & bmpta Sept, Cbeg-hmpta Bapt. Chrg-hmptn Oct.
Chrg-Chimpm Oct Gbg-S'kmpin Oct. 21 Obry-Whmptn Oct. 28 Chrg-Shapin Nov. Cbr fhmpta Nov. Ubrg Shmpta Obrg-Ampta Nov.
Noy.
Obrg-Skmpin Deo.
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK.
VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-
PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES
-GENOA-MARSEILLES,
Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK. PRESIDENT ADAMS „Tuesday, Aug, 16th 8,00 a.m. PRESIDENT GARFIELD'. PRESIDENT HARRISON PRESIDENT MONROE PRESIDENT WILSON
Tuesday, Aug. 80th 8.00 a.m.
Tuseday, Sept. 18th 6.00 a.m Tuesday, Sept. 27th 8.00 a.m.
Tuesday, Oct. 11th 6.00 a.m. Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays..
TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE”
PRESIDENT PIERCE ... Wednesday, Aug. 10th 6 s.m.
5.8,
PRESIDENT TAFT ... PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PRESIDENT GRANT PRESIDENT MADISON
„Tuesday, Aug. 28rd.
Wednesday, Sept. 7th.
Wednesday, Sept, 21st.
....Wednesday Oct. 8th.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Wednesday.
TO MANILA..
.Aug. 8th
6.00 p.
.Aug. 16th
8.00 a.m.
6.00 pm.
6.00 p.m.
.Aug. 80th **8.00 àm.
for steamers in the marine depart-self, or into railway waggons or DAMAGED PÄCKAGES will be ment, Kaye, Son and Co., Ltd.; coal wharf, or a badly-congested one, it examined by the Company's Sur- for pilet boats, Dutton, Massey and is equally easy to discharge inte veyor, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas Co. (Liverpool), Ltd.
lighters, barges, or the bunkera or in the presence of the Consignees holds of a ship alongside.
at 10 am on TUESDAY, the 9th Self unloading gear may consist August, 1927
No Fire Insurance will be effected of a conveyor boom on the deck, which can be swung outboard on by us in any case whatever.
J. LIMAGE, The folowing warships
are in either beam, and on to which the
Agent. cargo-coal, stone, ore, sand, wet harbour:-
Hong Kong, 3rd August. 1927. North Wall Basin, Delhi; South or dry, or gravel-is delivered by Wall Basin, Wild Swan; East Wall scrapers moving in tunnels in the Basin, Tarantula, Moorhen and bottoms, of the holds. This system Subs. Lis and L19; North Arm, is rapidly gaining in popularity in Vindictive; West Wall Dock, Blue- Canada on the Great Lakes and St. bell and Fortol; In Dock, Argus; Lawrence, and shows promise in Talkoo Dock Forglove: Kowloon directions ntarer home, but, so far, Dock, Sterling; Buoy 9, Primauguet the only vessel constructed in this (French); Buoy 7, Dauntless, Buoy country is the s.s, "Valley Camp" 11, U.S.S. Sacramento; Buoy 18, bullt at the Neptune Works of Ruthenia; Buoy 26, Kharki; also in Mesars, Swan, Hunter & Wigham port, Argus (French).
Richardson, Ltd., Newcastle-on- Tyne, for Mr James Play-fair, Mid-
Parcels measuring not more than 24 ft. x 2 ft. x i ft will be received MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS, land, Ontario After recent very
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.
Agents.
4, & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG.
successful trials at sea, she has. steamed for her destination with an The CPS RMS. "Empress of outward cargo for Marley Hn! Russia" arrived at Nagasaki yes- patent coke. The Valley Camp haa terday, at 5.80 a.m. left Nagasak the typical Lake-type silhouette, same day at 1.80 p.m., and is dus with the propelling machinery aft at Shanghai to-day at 6 p.m.
and the navigating bridge practi- The P. & O. 8.5. "Kashgar" left cally in the bows, a position ren Shanghai for this port on August dered necessary by the canal locks. 8 at 7 am, and is due here to-day to be negotiated. The tripod mast, at about 6 pm.
for elevating the conveyor boom, The Ben Lina s. "Beniawers" just aft of the bridge gives the
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE. from Leith Middlesbro, Antwerp vessel, however, a somewhat un-
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
“BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.
(OCEAN 8.8. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.N. CO., LID.;
AND
London, Straits and Philippines, it usual appearance. The total length due to arrive here to-morrow, is 2521t, the beam is 48ft. and the The E. & A. Co/s s.s." "Tanda" draught, with a cargo of 2,000 tons left Manila for this port yester- deadweight, is a little over 14ft. day at a.m, with the outward Aus- We may close our account of this tralian Mails, and is due here to ship, a pioneer vessel as far as morrow at about. p.m.
Great Britain is concerned, by The M.V.Raby Castle" (D. & mentioning that eight other vessels
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE Co arrived in Manila on August have been attad with this gear on
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.S. CO., LTD.),
÷ SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG,
8.5,"CITY OF BEDFORD" Vin Suez Canal
3.5. "MENTOR
Via Buez Canal
8.8. "CITY OF NORWICH" Via Suez Canal
10th Aug.
26th Aug. 11th Sept.
Steamers proceed via Sues Canal or Panama Canal at Gwners' Option:
*Subject to change without notice.
For Freight and particulara apply to
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD, Hong Kong, Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINK, HATHESON & CO. LTD. Canton.
2, and is expected in Hong Kong the Great Lakes service. These on August 7:
POLAR CAKE
ITS QUALITY: #THAT COUNTS
range from 2,000 tons to 6,000 tons capacity, and can discharge from 400 tons to 1,000 tons per hour. The boom conveyors, are from 75 ft to 150 ft. long. Four of these Vessels are even more self-contain ed than the Valley Camp, as they can take, in their own load sa well as discharge it. This they do by handling sand and gravel by means of 18-in. and 20-in. centrifugal pumps. The cargo is discharged by the scraper conveyor method gineering.
PRESIDENT JACKSON PRESIDENT ADAMS PRESIDENT TAFT PRESIDENT MCKINLEY- PRESIDENT GARFIELD
.Aug. 16th
.Aug. 22nd
For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to
THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO.
GENERAL AGENTS. Hong Kong and Shanghal Bank Building, Ground Floor
Telephone. Central. 2477, 2478 & 793.
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.
Bulit and engined by the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.
Please address
to the Chief H
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