SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 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.)
3. B
Tons
From Hongkong About
| 10,996 15th Oct.
Destination
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth and London,
Straits, Colombo, Marseilles, Casa
Blanca & London
Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull Marseilles and London
MALWA
NAGPORE
KASHMIR
LAHORE
4 p.m. 5,283 20th Oct
8,085 20th Oct. 5,262 6th Nov. MACEDONIA 11,120 12th Nov.
Marseilles & London
MONGOLIA
18,504 26th Nov.
Marseilles & London
MANTUA
10,846 10th
Der.
Marseilles and London
KASHGAR
9,005
24th
Dec.
Marseilles, London & Antworp
1928
MOREA
10,953
7th Jan.
Marseilles & London
DEVANHA MALWA
8,155 21st Jan. 10,080
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
Marseilles & London.
4th Feb. KHYBER
9,114 18th Feb. MACEDONIA 11,120 3rd Mar.
Marseilles, London & Antwerp Marseilles & London..
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrns and other Levant Forte by steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SANTHIA
7,754 | 5th Nov. | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
CONSIGNEES,
THE CHINA MAIL,
LLOYD TRIESTINO N. CO,"
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
M.V. "ROMOLO"
From Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Port Sald, Massaus, Aden, Karachi, Colombo, Penang`and Singapore,
DIESEL TANKER.
FIRST FOR BRITISH TANKER
CO. LTD.
MrWa Fraser proposed the health of the builders and engg gineers, and Mr. Muffhead and Mr. A. Storer acknowledged. Comment- ing on the magnitude of the Eri tish, Tanker feet, Mr. Muirhead Recently Messrs. Lithgows, Ltd. said he would draw attention to the launched from their Kingston Yard; very small percentage of that ton- Glasgow, the steel single-screw nage Mosers. Lithgows had built, Diesel oil tanker British Valour. but he had no doubt that when next The vessel, which has been built to the company were giving out orders the order of the British Tanker they would see that one or two mora Co., Ltd., is 440 ft. long by 57 ft were placed at Port-Glasgow. ONSIGNEES of Cargo are here-broad by 83 ft. 11 in. deep, with a by laformed that all Goods total deadweight carrying capacity are being landed at their risk into of over 10,000 tons. the Godowns of the Hongkong and The machinery is placed aft, with Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com-accommodation for the officers on pany, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence the bridge deck and engineers on and/or from the wharven delivery the poop, while the crew are barth No one can approach the part of may be obtained.
ed in the forecastle. The vessel, New York through its magnificent Optional Cargo will be forward- which has 22 main oil cargo tanks fairway and entrance channel with- ed unless notice to the contrary be and 10 summer tanks, has been out being struck by the remarkable' given before 18th instant.
built on the Isherwood longitudinal endowments which nature has con- No claima will be admitted after framing system to conform to ferred upon the locality. With a the Goods have left the Godowns, Lloyd's highest class. The propell-naturally sheltered, easily accessibla and all Goods remaining undeliver- ed after the 19th inst, will be sub-ing machinery is being supplied by and commodious harbour, equalled Messrs. John G. Kincaid and Co., by few others, in conjunc- 2 moderate tidal All claims against the vessel Ltd., and consists of one set of tion with
and equable climatic must be presented to the Under- single-acting Diesel engines on the range signed on or before the 29th inst., Wolff system, the main engines for the huge volume of sea-horne Burmeister and Wain-Harland and conditions, it is eminently suitable
ject to rent.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agenta. Hong Kong, 18th October, 1927.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
PORT OF NEW YORK.
or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged having eight cylinders of 740 mm. commerce which passes in and out Goods are to be left in the Godowns, diameter and 1,500mm. stroke. of its portale. One of the most where they will be examined on the The auxillary equipment of the ves- favourably situated ports in the 19th inst, at 10 am. by our sur-sel includes electric-hydraulic steer world, it is anquestionably the veyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, nig gear and oil cargo pumps of the greatest port on the American con
No Fire Insurance has been latest types, also an electric-driven tinent, and though standards of effected.
refrigerating machine. Mr. J. J. comparison are various and conflict- Billa of Lading will be counter-McKenzie, superintendent of the ing, it may, justifiably be claimed signed by
British Tanker Co., Ltd., assisted that, in all essential respects, New. by Mr. R. McGregor, supervised the York le foremost among the ports construction of the vessel and ma- of the two hemispheres. chinery on behalf of the owners. The jurisdiction of the port of Those present at the launch in New York Authority covers an area cluded Sir Basil Kemball Cook, of 1,463 square miles, roughly com- SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES|K.C.M.G., C.B. (managing direc-prised within a radial sweep of 25 tor), Messrs. J. R. Robertson miles round the Statue of Liberty (manager), J. J. McKenzie (super-in the harbour; the boundary so de- intendent) of the British Tanker tined was drawn for the specific Co., Ltd.; Mr. John Muirhead purpose of enclosing all the prin- (director of Lithgows, Ltd); Mr. A. eipal rallway and waterside fackli- Storer and Mr. G. E. Carter, (of ties in the port..
Accommodation for shipping is Mesers. Kincaid).
provided at a long series of plers, or jettles, projecting more or less at right angles from the shore, or bulkhead line, into the two main waterwaye of the Hudson and East Rivars as well as at certain coastal recesses and frontages, such as Newtown Creek, Gowanus Bay and Canal, and Upper Bay. These piers very numerous; altogether,
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
HE Steamship
"GENERAL METZINGER" BRINGING CARGO from MAR- SEILLES, &c. also cargo from Cognac Ex. 39.8. "Rollen."
The launching ceremony was per- formed by Mrs. Fraser, wife of Mr. CONSIGNEES are hereby inform-William Fraser (managing direc- ed that their goods with the tor of Scottish ́ Olls, Ltd.). exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the HONG-KONG KOWLOON WHARF
recognized.
DAMAGED PACKAGES will be
་
Some Leeway Made Up.
At a function which followed the
& GODOWN CO., LTD., KOW- launching Mr. John Muirhead, on LOON, whence delivery may be behalf of Messrs. Lithgowa, extend- are obtained immediately after landing. ed a cordial welcome to the visitors they number 868 and, in addition All claims must be sent in to me He was particularly pleased to see there are 56 ferry landing piers and on or before THURSDAY, the 20th the London gentlemen, and the in-93 car float bridges, or pontoons. instant, or they will not be terest they were taking in the con- All these projections Impart a ser- struction of their ships. The orderried or comb-like appearance to the examined by the Company's Sur- for the British Valour had been fix-
river frontage. ed two weeks before the start of veyor, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas in the presence of the Consignees the coal dispute, and the vessel had at 10 am. on MONDAY, the 17th been held up for nine months, but October, 1927.
in spite of that long delay it was No Fire Insurance will be effected expected to deliver the ship only about five months late, so they had made up some of the leeway.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) by us in any case whatever.
ARAFURA
TANDA
Melbourno
6,000 | 28th Oct. Maalla, Sandakan, Thursday Island, 8,056 2nd Doc. Townsville. Brisbane. Sydney, & SE ALBANS 4,500 80th Dec.
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong - to Australia.
The E. & A. 9.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hollo, Cebu, Kelambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route an inducement Horn
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Bealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canni.
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
J. LIMAGE, Hong Kong, 11th October, 1927.
Agent:
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED,
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS.
VICKERS' NEW FINANCIAL CONTROLLER,
Following upon the resignation
The British Tanker Company had always kept to the forefront and had been up-to-date in the con- of Sir Vincent Caillard from the atruction of their ships, and the board of Vickers, Ltd., Sir Mark yeasel which had been launched that Webster Jenkinson has been ap day was to be Atted with Diesel pointed financial controller of the engines of the most up-to-date type, company. When fitted she would be the first
Sir Mark is already a director, of the British Tanker fleet to have and was the accountant who con- ducted three months of intensive that method of propulsion. They all felt sure she would be a sucVickers and its subsidiaries on be investigation into the affairs of cess, and he had no doubt her per half of Mr. Reginald McKenna.
Sir
William Plender, and 'Mr. being landed at their risk into the need not speak of the British Tan to their trenchant report of De- Dudley Docker, at a preliminary hazardous and/or extra hazardous ker Company, Its magnitude or itacember, 1926. Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow-ramifications, but they all knew loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, they were one of the largest ship of Munitions from 1915-1920, Sir Mark was at the Ministry whence and/or from the wharves owning firms in the world. Six where he was Controller of Fac delivery may be obtained.
years ago Messrs. Lithgows, Ltd. tory and Audit Costs. After the
THE BENCLEUCH
THE Stearnship
CONSIGNEES of Cargo. are formance would be looked forward The New Zealand. Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and hereby informed that all Goods are to with very great interest,
London via Panama Canal.
DELTA
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
JEYPORE
TANDA
MANTUA
KEIVA
KASHGAR
ST. ALBANS MORELA KALYAN DEVANHA
9,007 16th Oct. 6,318 25th Oct.
6th Des Dec.
Moji & Kobe
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai & Kobe
He
No claims will be admitted after had had the pleasure of building a war he was Chief Liquidator: of the Gaoda bave left the Godowns, steamer for the British Tanker Contracts. He has been a mem- and all Goods remaining undeliver- Company, and her name was the ber of a large number of Govern- ed after the 17th inst, will be sub- British Tommy, and it was rather ment committees and commis ject to rent.
appropriate to his mind that the sions. He has been vice-chairman British Valour should go with the of Vickers' Finance Management British Tommy. Yokohama
Board for some time.
Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Mojl. Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moj, Kibe & Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama
• MONGOLIA 18,504 29th Oct. 8,966 8th Nov. 10,046 12th Nov. 0.185 19th Nov. 9,005 28th Nov. 4,500 10,953 19th
9.144 13th Doc. 8,155 24th
Doc. 1928 10,986 7th 9,114 21st
Jan. 9,135 28th Jan. 11,120 4th Feb.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 8,985 | 18th Feb. | Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama *Calls at Dalny.
MALWA
KHYBER
KHIVA
MACEDONIA
KASHKIR
Jan.
Shanghai, Mofi, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji & Robe
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
* Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own intel expenses at Singapord while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.
4
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under signed on or before the 81st inst, or they will not be recognized..
In recognition of the gracious All broken, chafed and damaged manner in which she had perform Goods are to be left in the Godowns, ra Fraser to accept a tortoise- ed the naming ceremony, he asked where they will be examined on the 17th inst, at 10 a.m.
shell jewel casket as a souvenir.
No Fire Insurance has been He proposed the toast: "Success" to the British Valour and her Own- era,"
effected.
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD:} Agents.
Hong Kong, 10th October, 1927.
In acknowledging the gift, Mrs. Fraser sald she was sure they, all joined with her in wishing the Bri- tish Valour the very best of luck.
Growing Fleet.
Responding to the toast, Sir Basil
Parcels measuring not more than 21% ft. x 2ft x 1 th will be received HONGKONG HEIGHTS. Kamball Cook,said the launch was a
st 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.
*** 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG.
Agents
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE
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AND
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8.8, "CITY OF EASTBOURNE"" Via Suez Canal-
8.8. "CITY OF WELLINGTONTE via Buss Canál
Steamers proceed via Bues Canal or Paasma Canal at Owner
Subject to change without notice
For Freight and partie
peculiarly interesting one, as the
For the information of visitors vessel was the first of a series of the following list of some of the Diesel tankers which the British highest points on the Island and Tanker Company had decided to Mainland is published
Island.
Victoria Peak
.:
Feet.
· 1823 1774
order. Last year in all 18 vessels
had been ordered, and three differ ant types of Diesel engines would be installed. Accordingly the per- formances of the vessels would be of great interest. In that particu. lar case he had little doubt that the British Valour would be a suc- cess.” The British Tommy, which
Signal Station
Mt. Parker
Mountain Lodge
1724 17259
The Eyrie
Peak Hotel
Taikoo Sanatorium Mt:"Davfs
1725 1805 1000
877
Bowen Rd (hit
297
3124
had come from that yard, had been one of their most satisfac sela, working, day in
alon
the
Valour
bring
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