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£120, £112, £110, £102 £83, vin San Francisco.
G$440, G$420, via Japan and Seattle,
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
TAIYO MARU
TENYO MARU
*Calls Keelung.
Tuesday, 10th January, 1928. Sunday, 29th January.
LONDON vin Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Ports,
HAKUSAN MARU
KITANO MARU
HARUNA MARU
Saturday, 31st December. Saturday, 14th January. Saturday, 28th January.
NYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manlis & Ports.
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
Wednesday,
21st December. Wednesday, 18th-January, 1928.
BOMBAY via 'Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
GENOA MARU
AWA MARU...........§.
Tuesday 27th December. Wednesday, 11th January.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
RAKUYO MARU
Friday, 23rd December.
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
Friday,
KAMAKURA MARU
NEW YOR!" and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.
1 TAKAOKA MARU
20th January.
Tuesd 7. 27th December.
LIVERPOOL vla Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Porte.
DURBAN MARU
Tuesday, 10th January,
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON
†NAGANO MARU
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
MISHIMA MARU
+RANGOON MARU
Saturday, 31st December.
Friday, 20th January.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Friday,
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Friday, Tuesday, Thursday,
23rd December. 23rd December.
27th December.
20th December,
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LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo Boats), Monthly Sailings direct to HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK:-
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lat week January, 1928.
S.S. "YANGTSE" due to arrive from DUNKIRK.
LONDON, HAVRE abo ut the 23rd January, 1928,
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS (Mail Service?
Steamers.
ANDRE LEBON ...
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Sailings
from Marseilles
Arr. at Hong Kong & Sailing
for Shanghai
Baillage Hong Kong for Marseilles.
from
2nd December
A
18th December Suit: December 13th January
and Japan.
4th Jan.
18th Jan. 1st Feb. 15th Feb.
3rd Jun. 1928 17th Jan. 31st Jari,
14th Feb. 28th Feb. 13th Mar.
RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES
(Including Table Wine)
',
A Class Steamers
1st Class 2nd
70
209. Da. Od. B Class 1st Class .. £35,.05. Od. .. 570, 0s, Od, Steamers 2nd
.. 261. 06. Od. Through Tickets to London and Leading Towns of Europe. Accommodations reserved in the Trains at Marseilles. (Sailings subject to alteration without notice).
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BANK
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THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
PIRACY MENACE.
TOW BOAT CAPTURED BY BLACK LAUNCH.
The a.. "Kinshan" reports that as she was passing Lin Fa Shan, near Whampoa, a sampan from the A.P.C. steam-launch "Si S," came out with a message that a Chinese tow-boat had been pirated and cap- tured by a black painted launch.
The launch and its occupants dis- appeared up the East River.
Presumably it has been looted and the crew made captives.
.
Pirate Blasts Ignored. When the "Kinshan" was in the vicinity of the Tide Fole, a presum ed pirate launch sounded four blasts as a signal for the ship to stop and attempted to come along olde.
No notice was taken of the signal.
Shortly afterwards, an A.F.C. launch was met up with; this hav- ing on board a zaval gun's crew, and was observed to be in chase of another presumed pirate launch, but this craft disappeared up a creek and could not be followed.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
The P. & O. 9.B. "Devanha" left Singapore for this port on Decem- ber 19 at noon with the outward English Mails, and is due here to
morrow at about 9 a.m.
The Ben Line 8.8. "Benrinnes" from Leith, Middlesbro', Antwerp, London, Straits and Philippines, is due to arrive here on Sunday.
The C.P.S., R.MS. "Empress of Canada" left Yokohama for Van- couver on December 16 at 3. p.m.,
and is due at Vancouver on Sunday The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of Asla arrived at Yokohama yes. terday at 11 a.m. left Yokohama same day at 5 p.m., and is due at Hong Kong on December 29 at a.m. She will sail for Manila on December 30 at 5 p.m.
The s.a. "Corby Castle" (D. & Co.) sailed from Honolulu November 26, and is due in Manila on January 2, 1928.
:
on
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The CP.S., R.M.S. "Empress of Russin"
(Capt. A. J. Hosken, R.N.E.) will leave here for Victoria
and
Vancouver, B.C., via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama at noon on Jacuary 4, (Wednesday), 1928.
The M.V. "Viminale" (D. & Co.) sulled from Aden on December 5, and is due kere on January 5, 1928.
SECTION.
LOCAL SHIPPING.
TO-DAY'S ARRIVALS AND: DEPARTURES.
THIS MORNING'S LIST...
ROCKET EXPLODES.
INCIDENT ON THE "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
Three young mesa boys employed on board the Canadian Pacific s.. "Empress of Russia" at prosont un- dergoing her annual overhauling at the Kowloon Docks were yesterday removed to the Kowloon Hospital suffering from injuries to their" facos, hands and body caused by the explosion of a rocket which they attempted to fire.
Soochow (1,594) British, from Shanghai, Swatow-B. & S.:-132 or at the reclamation off Walching Whilst at work unloading a light- passangers, 450 tons general cargo for Hong Kong, 80 tons general Street, Yaumatf, yesterday after- (through).
noon, a cargo coolls was rendered Yatshing (1,424) British, from unconscious when a heavy piece of Shanghai, Swatow, Jardine's:-2 timber fell on him. He was remov- passengers, 710 tons general cargo ed to the Kowloon Hospital. for Hong Kong, 750 tona general (through),
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HAY CARGOES.
COMMENTS ON TWO RECENT FIRES.
Luchow (1,221) British, from Dalny, Amoy, B. & S.37 pas- aengers, 350 tons general cargo for (through). Hong Kong. 50 tona general
Halphong. Holhow, B. & S.-47 Chenan (1,355) British, from passengers, 1,350 tons general
Liverpool, Nov. 16. cargo for Hong Kong, 37 tons gen- cargoes of hay from British North Last week, two cases of fire in eral (through).
America to this country were re- Kashgar (5,661) British, from ported. The first of these was on Yokohama, Shanghai,-Mackinnon, board the C.P.R. liner "Metagama," Mackenzie:-59 passengers, 40 tons the outbreak being first reported general cargo for Hong Kong when the vessel was 3,540 tons general (through). Greenock, and it will be remember-
passing
Svale. (1,354) Norwegian, from ed that although it was believed | Hothow,Lee Fat:-141 passen-that the fire had been got under gers, 2,170 tons general cargo for control, it broke out again after Hong Kong.
Corona (1,953) Norwegian, from not extinguished until a consider her arrival at Glasgow, and was Chiawangtao, Dodwell:-3 pas-able amount of damage had been sengers. 2,865 tons coal for Hong done, and the vessel had been Kong, 1,700 tons coal (through).
port.
Seattle Maru (3,628) Japanese, gravely imperilled by the amount of from Calcutta, Singapore,-0. S. Kinto her, and which caused her to water which had been pumped -180 passengers, 1.000 tons gen take a serious list. oral cargo for Hong Kong, 4,000
The second case Was tous general (through).
that of the Belgian Borneo Maru (4,262) Japanese; reported on fire off Dover, and steamer "Menapier," which was first from Yokohama, Moji,-0. S. K. which subsequently put into that 898 tons general cargo for Hong Kong, 3,775 tons general (through). further detalle are available, and it At the time of writing no Bingo Maru (3,724) Japanese, is not known how serious this out- from Yokohama, MojO. S. K. break may prove to be. 24 passengers, 247 tons general cargo for Hong Kong, 3,571 tone teresting, because they add
These two cases are rather In- general (through).
one Tak Hing (101) Chinese, from which fire at sea is apparently a more to the lat of interests in Macao,--Hoo Hing:-55.tons gen-serious casualty. eral cargo for Hong Kong.
From its very nature, hay is hightly inflammable, Departures.
and those who have seen a rick burning on shore can imagine what the consequences must be when a fire occurs in a ship's hold. Even if it is possible to prevent the access of air so as to prevent a conflagration, it is to be imagined that hay will smoulder for a very considerable period, and,
For Canton Tonger, Soochow, Yat Shing, Luchow,
For Macao:-Tak Hing. For Hongay:----Maud.
For Swatow:-Lushan Maru. For Singapore:-Selatan, Cremer, For Wei Hai Wei:-Kueichow. For Haiphong:-Borneo. - For Billiton: Tjibodas.
Clearances,
For Bangkok:-Havdrof. For Haiphong:-Song Bo. For K. C. Wan:-Hanol. For Singapore:-Borneo Maru, Bingo Maru.
For Moji:-Rakuyo Maru Shipping Abstract.
In
more-
over, the use of water as an extin- guisher is almost certain to result in grave deterioration even if it does not render the whole of the writer hay from British North interest valueless. To the present
America, especially in a liner, is a somewhat unusual interest. Pre- sumably we in this country are
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The M.V. s.s. "Canton" (Swedish! East Asiatic Co., Ltd.), left Rot- terdam on November 22, and is due here on or about January 5.
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extinguishing purposes, is a serious danger to other cargo carried in the same vessel, if only because an outbreak may result in a serious General Average, while it must not When one reads of the huge sums be overlooked that before now which went to the participants in vessels and their cargoes have been this week's big fight in America completely lost as a result of fire, and then passes to C. B. Cochran's even in those days of modern story of the amounts paid in some steamers and efficient extinguishing recent big fights in this country the apparatus. comparison is remarkable.
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CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
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Until the recent Walker-Milligan fight £30,000 is the biggest gate I ever took at a boxing match. The fight was the Carpentier-Beckett one at the Stadium in 1919. Fully a thousand applications for 25 guinea tickets had to be refused be- cause we simply had not the room. (This was the fight which lasted 78 seconds),
The question of whether boxers. are really worth the money they get is often asked, and my reply [adds Mr. Cochran) is that it is all a matter of drawing power. When, for instance, Frank Goddard and Joe Beckett met under my direc tion £500. would have been a generous.purse for them from the point of view of boxing, but what they actually received wa Beckett £2,500, Goddard £2,000. The winner was to meet Carpentier, and this made the match a drawing card with the public.
Here is another W. G. Grave yarn: Dr. Grace disliked losing his wicket if he could possibly avold it. On one occasion he hit the ball high into the air, and, seeing the elder shape for a safe catch turned to the fielding captain, and said, "I declare the Innings closed," before the ball had time to drop
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