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FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ
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REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FTUME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS. REDUCED PASSAGE RATES.
BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE LONDON
NEXT SAILINGS. -
1
£72.10.0. £80.0.0.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJL
S.S. "FIUME-L"
M.V. "ESQUILINO"
M.V. "ROMOLD"
From Hong Kong. Sans hence on/or about 18th Aug. Sails hence, on/or about 15th Sept. Sails hence on/or about 18th Oct.
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE,
M.V. "REMO"
S.S. "FIUME-L"
M.V. "ESQUILINO"
From Hong Kong, .Sails hence on/or about 19th Aug. .Sails hence on/or about 20th Sept. Sails hence on/or about 18th Oct.
NATAL LINE. OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
S.S. "UMSINGA"
.Sails from Calcutta 3rd Sept. Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports. Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.
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Telephone Central 1030.
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THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES. £120, £112, £110, £102 £83, via San Francisco. G$410, G420, via Japan and Seattle. BAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
Monday, 22nd August, at Noon. Tuesday, 8th Sept.-
TENTO MARU
KOREA MARU
"Calls Los Angeles, onulting Honolulu.
LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Parts.
KITANO MARU
HARUNA MARU
KAMO MARU
18th August Saturday, Friday, 26th August. Saturday, 10th Sept.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manlin & Ports.
MISHIMA MARU
TANGO MARU
Wednesday, 24th Aug., at'11 a.11.
21st September. .. Wednesday,
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,
SEIYO MARU
Tuesday, 18th August,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) vin Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
GINGO MARU.
Saturday, 20th August, at Noon.
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
Tuesday, 6th September.
KAWACHI MARU
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.
TATSUNO MARU
CALCUTTA MARU
Thursday, 19th August. Saturday, 27th August. LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Rald & Ports.
13th September. Tuesday, TAJIMA MARU CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE. PENANG & BANGOON, NAGASAKI, KORE & YOKOHAMA,
TANGO MARU SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Friday, 19th August.
13th August Thursday 18th August. Tuesday, 23rd August............
AKITA MARU (Calls Keelung & Muji) Saturday, ÷LIMA MARU ̄(Calls Moji).
ATSUTA MĀRĪ!
HAKODATE MARU (Moif direët).... Wednesday, 24th August.
For further information apply to--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)
M.M.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES'
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LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo Boats).
Monthly. Sailings direct to HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK:-
S.S. "DR. P. BENOIT" due to arrive from DUNKIRK,
LONDON, HAVRE about the 20th August,
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS (Mali Service)
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING
SECTION.
OLD VESSEL SOLD.
BLOWN ASHORE INTO BATHS.
Melbourne, July 7. The steamer "Malalta," which was blown ashore Into the South Mel-
NAVIGATION IN FOG. STEAMSHIP TRAGEDY bourne baths on November 17 last,
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT ON
APPEAL.
MARRIED WOMAN'.
DEAD.
and which was refloated by the Mel- bourne Harbour Trust on May 6. was sold by auction to-day for £225. £280, Bidding started at The purchasers were Messrs. Ore- gan, Hester, and Rice,. of Mel- bourne. The ship will be broken up.
In nautical circles general satis-
Details are available concerning faction will be expressed at the a tragedy on board the steamer judgment of the Appeal Court "Crefeld" at Antwerp, resulting in The cost of refloating the WAB considerably between the death of a married woman pas- | " Malalta" the collision upon
but than £1,000,
the and senger, while the ship's doctor is more "Induna " the steamers
in hospital.
price realised to-day will help "Ellenio." In this case, заув It is stated that Norman Smith, to defray the exponse. The "The Journal of Commerce,” husband of the dead woman, was "Malaita” is a vessel of 980 tons the plaintiff put forward the wholly a tugboat captain in Sydney, and gross. She was originally run by he married a German girl there a Burns, Philip and Co., Ltd., in the pernicious theory' that to stop a
few years ago. They left Sydney Pacific Islands trade, but after be vessel in fog was, a contributory to pay a visit to her parents at Bre- coming a coal hulk for the Mel- factor to collision, and consemen. During the voyage Smithbourne Harbour Trust she was re- quently an error of seamanship forbade Buchmann, the ship's.doc-fitted and used in the phosphate Such a contention is a direct revertor, to enter his cabin owing to the trade by H. B. Black and Co., of sal of the instructions laid down in attentions he was paying to his Melbourne. After the war she was the rule of the road, therein it is wife. When passing. Gibraltar laid idle in Melbourne and broke stated:"A steam vessel hearing Smith missed his wife, and after loose from her berthing during a apparently forward of her beam the searching the ship found her hidden strong gale. sound signal of a vessel the past, in a cupboard in Bachmann's cabin. tion of which is not ascertained There was a scene, the wife in shall stop her engines and navigate hysterics flatly refusing to go with with caution until risk of collision her husband. Finally he induced is past,"
her to go into the infirmary, and later they became reconciled.
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STEAMSHIP LINE.
AUSTRALIAN BOARD APPOINTED,
J
ANY
That is an authoritative instruc- tion which must be observed by all
On July 1, while Smith was pro- masters of steamships when the menading, the first officer and some conditions covered arise, and to nd-sailors seized' him and locked him mit any interpretation other than up. A friend saw him there and the direct one conveyed in the sen- told him that his wife was dead.
Sydney, July 6. It was announced to-day that the tence would be to cast gravo re- After he had been imprisoned for flection upon those who framed the ten hours, the captain released him Commonwealth and Dominion Line, rules, and strike a serious blow at and told him that at Arst he thought Limited, had decided to establish the regulations to prevent collisions he had murdered his wife, but hea local board in Australia, with at sea as a whole. Every seaman was now convinced that she and the headquarters in Sydney. The mem- bers of the board will be Mr. F. G. knows that the stopping of engines doctor had attempted suicide. will result in loss of way, and wind
The wife's body was taken to Murdock, of Sydney, and Mr. De and sea conditions must affect the Bremen, while the doctor was sent Gruchy, of Wellington (Now Zen- land). Mr. Murdock is a director hending of the ship so stopped. to hospital in a critical condition. That point was known to, and must
Consular inquiries, are proceed-of Messrs. Gibbs, Bright and Co., who are associated as agents in have been considered by, the nauti-
ing.
Sydney with the Commonwealth and cal experts who framed the interna
Dominion Line. tional rules.
Working for Safety.
The B, I. s.8. "Santhia" will leave Amoy for this port this evening. and is due here to-morrow evening.
The Ben Line B.8. "Benalder" from Leith, Middlesbro, Antwerp Loudon and Straits la due to arrive here on August 16.
They worked for safety only, be- MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. ing well aware that, in times of bad visibility when ships would sight each other at close quarters only, the lower the speed the less the possibilities of damage; and when two vessels, each following the regulations laid down, hove in sight of each other, prompt reversal of engines on the part of any ship under small way would avert col- of lision or reduce the amount damage below the danger line: An on August 18. appropriate sound signal was laid down for the vessel so stopped; the bearing of this signal would ac- quaint those in charge of the other that there was a stationary ship to pass, and leave them free to manoeuvre until danger was avert
ed.
COLOURED SEAMAN'S
BRAVERY.
While the motorship "Centaur" which arrived at Fremantle from Singapore on July 5, was at Derby, one of the coloured seamen fell into in enclosure containing several The s. "Fiume-L" (D. & Cobullocks, maddened by their strange sailed from Colombo on August 5 surroundings. Before the seaman, and is due to arrive in Hong Kong who had fallen about 30 feet, had time to recover himself he was at- tacked by one of the beasts. With- out hesitating, one of the men's on compatriots jumped, into the en- August 10, at p.m. and is due back closure and pulled the seaman out here on Monday, August 22. She of danger. Appreciating the will lesie here for Victoria and second man's bravery, the passen- Vancouver. B.C. via Shanghai, gers aubscribed over £2 which was Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama on August 24 at noon.
The C.P.S., R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" (Capt. A. J. Hocken, R.N.R.)
sailed for Manila
handed to the rescuer.
The following vessels of the Compagnie des Messageries Hari- times are expected here:-
.
"Athda 1," August 30. "D'Artagnan." September 18. The M.V. "Esquilino (D. & Co.) from Brindisi, is expected, in Hong" Kong on September 16.
The 8.8. Bolion Castle" (D. &.
Probably every section of the rule of the road has, at some time! or other, been challenged in Court of Law, but from the seamanship point of view it is hard to conceive one which would require greater ingenuity to controvert than the paragraph which covers behaviour of steamships in fog. The language is precise, procedure laid down sea- manlike, and the whole section Co.) sailed from New York on July framed with a view to
18, and is due to arrive in Hong pre- venting or minimising collis Kong on September 24. ions. Upon the Induna ". "Ellenia" collision there is no need to comment, the circumstances have been analysed effectively in both Courts; the important point from the navigators' sutlook, a Bug- gestion that stopping in fog might be bad seamanship when vessels are in close proximity, has been cleared up and it is unlikely to be raised In the future.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
The M.V. Raby Castle" from New York, Newport News & Ner- folk has arrived and consignees are asked. to, take delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after August 15.
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Sailings from SINGAPORE on 7th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO" or "CITY OF SPARTA”.
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· other services..
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vla Suez Canal ̈
.11th September
9th October
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TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.
SAILINGS '1927.
STRAMERS
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ABIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA | EMPRESS OF ABIA
EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA
H'Kong B'hai
Kobe Y'homa Leave Leave Leave Leave
V'ver
Arrive
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Nov, 16 Nov; 19 Nov. 22 Nov. 25 Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. 25 Jan. 28 Jan. 31
Dec. 4 Dec. 25
Dec. 10 7
Dec. 13
Dec. 16
Jan. 10
Jan. 13 Jast. 22
Feb. ¡ Feb. 12
| (E/Asia and E/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from S'hai).
SPECIAL FARES TO EUROPE
$120
£112
£:88
All first and second class rooms on the "Empress of Canada," "Empress of Asia" and "Empress of Russia" are fitted with hot and cold running water.
Leave Arrive Hong Kong Manila
#
HONG HONG-MANILA SERVICE.
Leave Arrive
Manila Hong Kong
Aug. 30 Sept. 1' EMPRESS OF ASIA
Sept. 10 Sept. 12
CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS
TRAVELLERS CHEQUES
i PAYABLE THE WORLD OVER.
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LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP.-Via Singapore,.
Colombo, Bues and Port Bald.
RIO DE JANEIRO, BANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vin Saigon, Singapore,
1
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town MONTEVIDEO MARU......
BOMBAY-Via Singapore and Colombo.
CELEBES MARU
Tuesday, 23rd August.
Saturday, 20th August,
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA Via Singapore and Colombo.
CALCUTTA-Vis Singapore, Penang sad Hangoon.
..Saturday, 27th August,
BORNEO MARU
.Saturday, 3rd September.
MEXICO MARU
CHICAGO MARU
....Wednesday, 81st August... ....Wednesday, 28th September,
TACOMA MARU ......
Ports.
ARIZONA MARU (From Shanghai).. HAIPHONG—Via HOIHOW & PAKKOL.
18th August
Tuesday, 16th August.
Sunday, 14th August,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Bhanghai and Japam
TAIKWA MARU
JAPAN PORTS
ALASKA MARU .....
KEELUNG VĨɑ 8WATOW & AMOT.
HOZAN MARU
MENADO MARU TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY. TATAO, KEULUNG B JAPAN.
GANGES MARU DAIREN Via CHEFOO & TSINGTAO.
NITTO MARU
For further particulars please apply Tel Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.
Sunday, 14th August. Wednesday, 17th August.
Wednesday, 24th August,
End of August. to:-OSÁKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
COPENHAGEN.
The M.S. "DANMARK"
will be loading for Le Havre, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian Ports on or about
Further sailings:--
M.S."JAVA"
M.S. "ASIA" M.S. "AFRIKA"
15th August.
Expected on or about:-
23rd August
9th September 20th, October
*Subject to change without notice.
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RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES
(including Table Wine und Free Doctor's Attendance).
A Class 1st Class £93. U. 1 B Class, 1st Class..... £85. On, 'Od.
Bteamers 2nd
....$70. Os. Od. Steamers 1 2nd
Through Tickets to London and Leading Towns of Europa, Accommodations reserved in the Trains at Marsollies,
(Sailings subject to alteration without notice),
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M.V. "OLIVEBANK” MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
S.S. TINHOW
vin Suez Canal,
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
1st October ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
.25th October
...... #di. Dz. Od.
Loading for Mauritius, Delagon Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay, Fort, Elisabeth, Mossel Bay
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Madagascar.
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Waterlevels in English Feet,
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77.5
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