DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
FOR NEW YORK AND BOSTON via SUEZ. S.S. "BOWES CASTLE" .Sails on/or about 16th Febr.
LLOYD TRIESTINO
FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME). REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE 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.
$72.10.0. €80.0.0.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI.
M.V. "ESQUILINO"
M.V: "ROMOLO"
S.S. "VENEZIA”
From Hong Kong. ·
Sails on/or about 2nd Febr. Sails on/or, about lat Mar. .Salle on/or about 29th Mar.
*ALSAIUL ANV, HOINGA ‘ISIONTUA HOA STUVMINOH
M.V. "VIMINALE”
M.V. "ESQUILINO"
From Hong Kong - Salis ca/or about 7th Febr. Salls on/or about 6th Mar.
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO.
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
S.S. "UMVOLOSI" S.S. "UMSINGA"
.Sails from Calcutta 2nd Feb. .Sails from Calcutta 1st Mar. .Sails from Calcuttá 1st Apr. Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports.
S.S. "UMONA”
Through Bills of Lading Issued from Hong Kong.
for Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.
Telephone Central 1030.
NYISLINE
THROUGH BOOKİNG TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES.
£120, £112, £110, £102 £83, via San Francisco.
G$440, G$420, vin Japan and Seattle.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
* SIBERIA MARU (Galls Los Angeles) Tuesday, 6th March, TAIYO MARU
Tuesday, 20th March.
*Calls Keelung.
LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Ports.
HARUNA MARU
KAMO MARU
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
Saturday,
28th January.
11th February. Saturday, 25th February,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manilu & Ports.
MISHIMA MARU
TANGO MARU
Wednesday, 22nd February,
DOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
† SEIYO MARU
TAMBA MARU
Wednesday, 21st March.
Wednesday, 1st February.
Saturday, 11th February,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
México & Panama.
GINYO MARU
Monday, 6th February
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coust) via Singapore, Cape Town & Poris,
Wednesday, 29th February:
KAWACHI MARU
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA. Thursday,
+ TATSUNO MARU
9th February. LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Sald & Ports.
DELAGUA MARU
Thursday, 9th February. CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON
† PENANG MARU
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA, '
AKI MARU
SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Wednesday, 1st February.
,† TOKUSHIMA MARU (Moji direct). Sunday,
KASHIMA MARU
† AKITA MARU (Moji direct)
HAKONE MARU
*Carge only.
Friday, 17th February.
6th February.
Monday,
Friday, Monday,
6th February. 10th February.
20th February.
For further information apply to--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)
M.M.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
MAIL AND CARGO STEAMERS TO AND FROM MARSEILLES, DUNKIRK, U.K. HAMBURG & ROTTERDAM.
From Marseilles
G. METZINGER
SPHINX PORTHOS PAUL LECAT
1st Feb:
.15th Feb.
.29th Feb. .14th Mar:
From Dunkirk, Antwerp, London
YANG TSE (Cargo)..31st Jan. YALOU (Cargo). 25th Feb.
For Shanghai, Japan and North
China
YANG TSE (Cargo)..31st Jan, YALOU (Cargo), 25th Feb,
THE. “PRAGA.”
SAFE ARRIVAL AT TSINGTAO.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
Shanghai, Jan. 27. The "Evening News" publishes a telegram from Taingtao to the effect that the a.s. "Praga" arrived
SECTION.
GIRL CAPTAIN.
THIRD TO WIN PLACE ON
·SHIPOWNERS' REGISTERS.
A third woman skipper has made her appearance on the world's re- sisters of ship-masters, says the "Sunday News."
LINER DAMAGED.
GIGANTIC CUNARDER TWO
·DAYS LATE.
New York, Yesterday. Owing to a very fierce gale rag- ing in the Atlantic the famous Cunard liner a.s. "Aquitania" arriv-| ed from Southampton two days" late, with the windows of the up- per-decks, port-holes, and deck equipment damaged. The waves at one time dashed against the bridge 70 feet above the waterline.-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
A fair-haired, blue-eyed Nor- in spite of an attempt of the Na-wegian girl aged 19, made a spo- tionallat gunboat "Feihu" to hold clal request to the Norwegian❝I MUST HAVE £600.” her up on Wednesday morning off Government to be allowed to alt na candidate for a master mariner's Shantung.
certificate.
The "Praga" is alleged to have ignored the "Fethu's" eignals, and exchanged gunfire for three hours before out-distancing the "Felhu,"
A WEALTHY WIDOW
· BLACKMAILED.
As the Act under which ship captains and officers were examined did not provide for GUEST AT SCOTTISH HOUSE. women, some difficulty was experi-
J
enced. Miss Gudrun Tragstad, of Four years' penal servitude was Oslo, however, persisted in her tho sentence passed on Hubert application to be examined for the White Barrett, a young man, who ENGINE EFFICIENCY.highest qualification attainable in at the Old Bailey, London, plead-
MESSRS. JAMES HOWDEN'S NEW ACTIVITIES.
the sea service of her country.
Upon making Inquiries, the Gov-ed guilty to uttering a letter de ernment found that a full certia-manding £600 with menaces, cate as master mariner had been from Mrs. Jessie Taylor, a well-to- granted by the British Government do widow,
to Lady Ernestine Hunt. They Mr. J. A. C. Keeves, prosecut- also discovered that the American ing, stated that in 1925 Mrs. Government had allowed a ship-Taylor was touring in India when master's widow to sit for an ex- she made the acquaintance of amination as master, which en Barrett, who showed her many titled her to take command of a kindnesses. As a result a friend- ship which was formerly in charge chip aprang up between them, In of her husband.
Finally, therefore, the Norwegian 1926 he wrote to her saying he Government allowed Miss Tragstad was returning to England, and to compete for the examination, she invited him to stay at her and this she successfully passed house in Scotland. In January at the first attempt.
this year she advanced him £300, and in August he again stayed at her house.
The economical performance of the marine oil engine and the good reaults which are being obtained with certain types of improved marine reciprocating engines, have indirectly caused more attention to the be paid to the efficiency." ̈of marine steam turbine. That form of prime mover was, until com- paratively recently, a less efficient unit than was the land turbine for equivalent, outputs, partly on ac- count of the steam conditions under which it is called upon to work, and partly owing to the details of de- sign adopted in certain types of marine turbines.
of higher The increased use steam pressures and superheated steam, along with more effective de- signs of condensing and feed heat- ing systems, have now brought about considerable improvements on the steam side. With regard to the turbine itself. a. better formance is be obtained by using THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD. accurately designed and machined turbine wheels and diaphragms.
per-
Messrs. James Howden and Co., Ltd., who for many years have con- structed the Howden-Zoelly type of turnbine, are now specialising in the design and the machining, to very fine limits, of marine turbine and diaphragms, and have set apart a portion of their works for this aspecial purpose. It has been pos sible, by adopting new parts such as have been mentioned, to improve the efficiency of several existing marine turbine installations, which have been laid up for repairs and reconditioning, while wheels and discs are also being made for the machinery equipment of some new vessel.
She has had several years' ex- perience at sea as quartermaster on board her father's ship, and now, in her smart white and blue uniform, complete with naval cap and badge, she struts the bridge, mistress of all she surveys a lady Viking of the seas.
CONSIGNEES.
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS & PHILIPPINES.
THE Steamship
THE
From that time he repeatedly asked her for money, and she gave him another £170 at various times.
"I Have Turned Criminal."
On October 26 he wrote the blackmailing letter, in which he said "I must have £600, and to get this I have turned criminal." He went on to say that he had! written a number of letters to her relatives and friends making re- flections on her character, and that these would be posted if the money did not arrive by a certain date.
When Barrett was arrested he said "I must have been crimin- ally mad to write such a letter: It was only bluff."
"BENLEDI" Consignees of Cargo are hereby
Prisoner's Sorrow. Informed that all Goods are being
Mr. Francis Peregrine, defend- landed at their risk into the hazar-ling, said the case was very differ dous and/or extra hazardous Go- ent from the usual blackmailing downs of The Hongkong and Kow-case. loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., India when Mrs. Taylor had a Barrett was working in whence, and/or from the wharves, nervous breakdown, and was left delivery may be cbtained.
without friends or money. He No claims will be admitted after paid all the
necessary expenses the goods have left the godowns, for her and travelled with her and all goods remaining undeliver several hundred miles, and ar- ed after the 3rd February, 1928, ranged for her return passage to will be subject to rent..
England.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under-
AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT signed on or before the 17th Feb-
LINE.
Operated for
U. S. Shippi.. Board
By SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES.
For full information apply -
SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. L. EVERETT, Inc.
General Agents
ruary, 1928, or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Go-
Barrett from the dock said he wished to express his regret to Mrs. Taylor, who, he said, had. always been a woman of splendid character.
"Callous Blackmailer."" downs, where they will be examined Passing sentence, the Recorder on the 2nd February, 1928, at 10 described Barrett as "a callous, a.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. cold-hearted blackmailer in cir No Fire Insurance has been cumstances of peculiar aggrava- effected.
tion.
Billa of Lading will be counter- signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hong Kong, 27th January, 1928.
"It is clear you deliberately threatened to ruin this woman's character and reputation, and ruin it by telling a wicked and diabolical lie."
BANK LINE LTD.
AGENTS FOR
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.
UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT
S.S. "CITY OF PEKIN"
9.3. "CITY OF BENARES S.S. "CITY OF MADRAS"
AUSTRALIA
"CITY OF PALERMO”
Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Rotterdam & Hamburg .Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg.
SINGAPORE/AUSTRALIA
Leaves Singapore
ELLERMAN LINE
.14th February. ,20th February.. ,25th March.
AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE]
7th February.
For FREMANTLE, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE & SYDNEY. Through Freight and Passenger bookings from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Ellerman" Line and
ather services.
For Shanghai and Japan
1st Feb. 15th Feb. .29th Feb. ..14th Mar.
SS "CITY OF KIMBERLEY" 8.8. "CITY OF ADELAIDE" 8.8, "CITY OF DUNKIRK”
G. METZINGER SPHINX PORTHOS PAUL LECAT
For Marseilles
ANGERS D'ARTAGNAN
.81st Jan.
.14th Feb,
·G. METZINGER
.28th Feb.
SPHINX PORTHOS
18th Mar.
27th Mar.
For Rotterdam, Hamburg, Dunkirk
LT. ST LOUBERT BIE
(Cargo) 4th Feb.
YANG TSE
(Cargo) 1st week Mar.
For full Particulars, apply to:-
Cic. des MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, Telephones: C. 561 and 740.
QUEEN'A BUILDING.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.............. AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
via Suez Canal
vin Suez Canal
via Suez Canal
LSO AGEN
ALSO AGENTS :: FÜR
ANDREW WEIR & CO.
SERVICES TO
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
·M.V. “MYRTLEBANK”
MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA.
S.S. "TINHOW
..20th February, .23rd March. .20th April.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
8th February. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE"
20th April.N
Loading for Mauritius, Delagon Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth Mossel Bay
and Capetown
Through Bill of Lading issued to Beirs, Gallimaine, bo, l'art. Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderits. Bay, Walvis Bay and * Madagascar,
For fraient or passare un any of the above lines apply to>-- Telephone PR Central 4791,
THE BANK LINE
LTD.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1928.
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE
S.S.
66
by the
Empress of Australia"
21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 Feet.
LEAVING HONG KONG, FEBRUARY 13th, 1928.
vin Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Peking), Beppu, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Balboa, Panama, through the Panama Canal to Cristobal, Colon, Havana.
Arriving NEW YORK, April 12th, 1928. Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK
Leave NEW YORK, April 14th,
arriving SOUTHAMPTON, April 22nd, 1928.
Shore excursions and sight-seeing tours at all Forts.
For Particulars Apply to:-
CANADIAN PACIFIC
Tel. Central 752
O.
Tel. address "CACANFAO.”
S. K.
SAILINGS FROM, HONGKONG RUBJECT TO 'ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore,
Colombo, Suez and Port Bald. ATLAS MARU.........
Friday, 3rd February.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIREB—Vin Salgon, Singapore,
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. ? MONTEVIDEO MARU
BOMBAY-Via Singapore and Colomba.
„Friday, 10th February.
Friday, 3rd February.
.Thursday, 9th February. .Monday, 20th February.
*(both calls at Karachi).
*HONOLULU MARU
SHINGO MARU ... SHINNOH MARU
DURBAN, DELAGOA NAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA-Via Bingapore and Colombo. CHICAGO MARU ...........
-Tuesday, 31st January.
CALCUTTA—Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon.
KASADO MARU
..........Saturday, 26th February.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports,
ARABIA MARU (From Shanghai)...Tuesday, 7th February, HAIPHONG-÷Viɑ BOIROW & PAKHOL
TAIKWA MARU
MENADO MARU
Tuesday, 31st January, 10 am. Tuesday, 14th February, 10 a.m.
NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Frantisco & Panamn, JAPAN PORTS
CELEBES MARU ALASKA MARU BATAVIA MARU
KEELUNG VI SWATON & AMDY,
HOZAN MARU MENADO - MARU KAIJO MARU
TAKAO VI SWATOW & AMOY.
For further particulars please apply Tel. Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.
Sunday, 5th February. Saturday 11th February. Wednesday, 22nd February. -
Sunday, 29th January, 11 a.m. Wednesday, 1st Feb., 10 a.m. Sunday, 6th Feb., 11 a.m.
to:-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
S.S. BELGENLAND
(27,200 Tons.)
RED STAR LINE.
/ LARGEST STEAMER TO CIRCUMNAVIGATE THE GLOBE.
LEAVES HONGKONG FEBRUARY 13th.
Calcutta,
For Manila, Bangkok, Batavia, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Port Sudan, Port Tewik, (for Cairo and Jerusalem), Alexandria, Athens, Naples, Monaco, Gibraltar and New York.
Port-to-port passengers,
excursions, booked,
with or without shore
Regular trans-Atlantic services between Now York, Bonton, Montreal, and principal European ports by White Star, Red Star and Atlantic Transport Lines. Through bookings from the Orient.
For Particulars apply to:-
THE AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., INC.
4a, Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong.
WATER SUPPLY.
Level, and Storage of water in Reservoirs on January 1, 1928- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.
1926 1927 Tytam
18' 8" 12" 8"B Tytam Byewash 25' 4"B 26′ 6′′B
Lovel Tytam Intermediate Level
...... 12'11"B 22 "B Tytam Tuk
16' 2"B 15" 4"B Wong Nei Chung Pokfulam .......... 17'11" 19'8"B Overflow": [Note: B. denotes "Below A denotes "Above Overflow."] :
Storage in millions and decimals of gallona.
tent Supply was given from 4th to 31st December, 1926,
Full supply in all Rider Main Dis tricts during December, 1927 with the exception of the districts West of Eastern Street where an Intermittent Supply was given from 1st to 31st December, 1927.
KOWLOON. WATER WORKS
LEVEL.
1027 1928 ..7′ 0′′B 7′ 4′′B Kowloon Reservoir Shek Lat Pul Roser-
07B II"B: Reception Reservoir.. 8' 4" 2' 'B Blorage in millions and decimals of gallons.
1927 1920 Kowloon Reservoir.... 288.60 280.42 Shok Lai Pai Reser
1927
1928
Tytam
Tytam Byewash
278.72
.59
285.70
..38 195.00
1,121.75
920.98
Wong Nel Chung. 18.59 Pokfulum
28.86
18.40 25.82
voir
98.40 Reception Reservoir 24.55
90.87
27.24
Total
408.45404,08
Tytom Intermediate 185.90 Tytam Tuk.PROD
Total 1,638.91 1,448,25
Consumption of water In Kowloon
Consumption of water In the City millions and decimals of gallons dar- and Hill District in millions and doing the month of December... cimals of gallons during the month of Consumption w December.
Condition;
1926 1927 -244.29 271.58 Estimated population 407,620 417,040 Consumption per head
/1928 1927 .74.89..... 88.08 Estimated population 168,140 168,180
per day
Duo 15,8 17,5 Full Supply in all districts during December, 1926 and
per days 19.3 20.9 The Government Fall Supply in all Rider Main Dis tricts during December, 1924 with
the exception of the districts West of Eastern Street where an Intermit
show that, the quality of the water, is satisfactoryzake
Total rainfall to December 31, 1928, 100.78; December 01, 1927, 107.87.