THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
CONSIGNEES.
THE CHINA MAIL,
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO,' ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS.
THE Steamship ·
"BENAVON"
SIR A. F. YARROW.
PROMINENT LONDON -
ENGINEER.
and that is the Yarrow boller. As far back as 1877; Sir Alfred Yarrow began study of water-tube boilers, but it was 'not till about ten years later he ventured to after his Invention to morino' en- teemed in London business circles, efficiency of the Yarrow boller be The son of parents highly ea-gineera. After that, however, the Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow was came an important factor in the born in, the city, on January 13, development of high-speed craft. 1842, and early showed an inter- Its main features, the straight Consignees of Cargo are hereby est in mechanical contrivance more Informed that all Goods are being purposeful than the ordinary play direct-acting, super-heaters, exhibit water tubes, simple structure and landed at their risk into the hazar- of children. When eight years the clear vision and character of dous and/or extra hazardous Go-fold, he devised à mechanical wool
the inventor. downe of The Hongkong and Kow-winder for a malden aunt then
Steadiness of Character. loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd,, | staying with them, and later in-
In 1918, at the age of seventy- whence, and/or from the wharves, vented a self-acting candle extin-
one, after A life crammed with delivery may be obtained. guisher for the same lady, who, good works, both in business and No claims will be admitted after however, failed to appreciate that benevolence, Alfred Yarrow, as he the goods have left the godowne, offort of her dutiful nephew. In then was, determined to retire and all goods remaining undeliver-1848, Mr. and Mrs. Yarrow remov. from business, but within ten ed after the 28th inst.,ad from London City to Holloway, months he was recalled to duty by will be subject to rent.
and Alfred, then six years old, the need of Great Britain for his All claims against the steamer was sent to a school carried on by services. must be presented to the Under-a disciple of Pestalozzi, and the taken by this veteran of seventy- The story of the part ETRAITS, JAVA, BURMA. CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, signed on or before the 11th April, teaching by object leasons and three in the most memorable naval 1928, or thuy will not be practical demonstration particular conflict in history, cannot be told recognized.
ly suited his mental character: here. Great naval chicfs joined in All broken, chafed, and damaged Four years in a boarding school his praise, and when the war was goods are to be left la the Goat Reigate and two years at Uni-over, King George V. conferred on downs, where they will be examined versity College School, London, him a well-carned baronetcy. Sir 011 the 27th inst., at 10 constituted his educational train-Alfred Yarrow lives on,
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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
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. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, ing, and at the age of fifteen he friend Viscount Knutsford, says in Fire Insurance has been wa's apprenticed with Messrs, a "Foreword" to the "Life" written effected.
Ravenhill, then a prosperous Lon by Lady Yarrow, "showing no DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
Bills of Lading will be counterdon firm of marine engineers, Bigned by
signs of decay," an Alfred Yarrow has always had a that blend of genius and practical example of GIBR, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., genius for friendship, and his sense, benevolence tempered by close association with a fellow wisdom, and steadiness of charac- Hong Kong, 21st March, 1928. pupil in University College School, ter which all patriotic minds fond-
named Hilditch, led to importantly believe is typically British, developments in his career. .To-
(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
B. 3.
Tons
KARMALA
MIRZAPORE MANTUA
KALYAN
MONGOLIA
*NAGPORE
MOREA
+LAHOKE KASHGAR
Froos Hongkong About
0,128 24th Mar.
Noon. 6,715 27th Mar. 10,946 31st Mar, 9,144 1 7th ApL 16.504
14th Apr. 6,283 Elat Apr. 10.953 28th Apr.
5,252 7th May 9.005
KIDDERPORE 5334
12th
May
22nd May 26th May 10.086
5,318 2nd June 8,097 Sth
Destination
M'lles, Casablanen, 'L'don & A'werp.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay Murseßics & London Marseilles, London & Antwerp
Marseilles & London
Marseilles & London. Marseiller & London. Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hall.
& Bombay, Straits Culombo Bombay, Marseilles & London, Marseilles & London
Antwerp & Hull,
Marseilles, Londondon.
Marseilles &
MALWA +JEYPORE DELTA +NOVARA
June
1 6.888 | 16th
June
RANPURA KHYBER ΤΝΑΝΚΙΝ
16.601 23rd
June
0.114 7th
July
7,858 14th
July
Bombay, Marscilies & London. Marseilles. London, Antwerp & Hull, Marseilles & London
RAWALPINDI
16.619 21st
July
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
1. 8,985 1 413
Aug.
Mursefiles. London & Antwerp.
RAJPUTANA
16,568 18th *Cargo only.
Aug.
Bombay, Marseilles, & London,
KASHMIR
Froquent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TAKLIWA
SHIRALA
SANTHIA
Mar. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
7,936 24th 7,841 2nd
7,754 17th
Apr. Apr.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
B. I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and earry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
*ST. ALBANS 4,600, 30th Mar. Manila Sandakan, Thursday Island,
4 p.m.
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.
ARAFURA †TANDA
4,000 4th May
0,956 1st June
"Calls Port-Holland.
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong, to Australia.
&
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hollo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement *Kart.
Frequent connections from Australls with the following:- The Union 3.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Kealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal. The P. & C. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
*LAHOKE
TAKADA
MOREA ARAFURA TALAMBA
Kor.
5,252 | 26th
11 a.m. 6,949 28th Mar, 10,063 30th Mar.
6,000 3rd Apr. 8,018 11th Apr. 9,005 13th Apr. KIDDERPORE ·5,314 14th Apr.
KASHGAR
- JEYPORE
TILAWA
MALWA TANDA "NOVARA
DELTA RANPURA NANKIN ST. ALBÁNS KATYBER RAWALPINDI
KASHMIR RAJPUTANA
5,318 17th Ajie. 10.000 21st Apr. 10.028 27th Apr.
May
6,956 8th May 6.089 Ath .8,097 11th
5th
May
S'hal, Moli, Kobe & Yokohama
יי
Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama," Moji, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama, Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobo & Osaka. S'ha Moji. Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji & Robe
Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji, Kobo & Osaka. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, 'hal. Maji, Kobe & Yokohama S'hai, Maji, Kobe &
Kobe Yokohokohama
Shal,
S'hai,
Maji,
May 16,001 25th
7,058
June
Kobe & Yokohama, 4,500 5th June Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. 9.114 8th June Skai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 16,819 | 22nd June! S'hai, Koho & Yokohama
July Shai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. July | S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama.
6,985 1- 6th 16,688 20th
* Cargo only.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS,
-" Passengers for 'Rangosu must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabina are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Cisamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received
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. P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd C., HONGKONG. Agents.
BOSTON, NEW
Agenta.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
“ELLERMAN” LINE.
From EUROPE.
HE Steamship
TCITY OF DUNKIRK”
MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS.
The P. & O. 8.s. "Karmala" left Shanghai for this port on March 20 at 3.30 p.m. with the Mails, and is duc here on March 23 at about 7
gether, the boys established. be tween their homes, in the year 1857, what was probably the first overhead private telegraph line in More important, Great Britain. however, was the invention of the "Yarrow-Hilditch" steam plough ing system, which was taken over by Messrs. Coleman & Company, a.m. agricultural engineers, Chelmsford, who also opened a London office Amoy for this port to-morrow p.m., for their business and appointed and is due here on March 24 p.m.
Another Yarroir as manager.
The B.I. 8.8. "Takada" left Sin-
The B.I. 8.8. "Takliwa" will leave'
having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra- hazardous Godowns of Holt'a Wharf, whence delivery may be pioneering invention of the Yar-gapore for this part on March 19
row-Hilditch combination was
p.m., and is due here on March 25 steam-driven passenger
vehicle, p.m.
1}! patented in 1861, which establish- The P. & O. 8.8. "Lahore" left ed a daily service, but the passing Singapore for this port on March of the Act of 1862, forbidding the 19 at 4 p.m., with the Mails, and is use of power-driven vehicles on due hero on March 25 at about
The P. & O. 8.8. "Mirzapore" left Shanghai for this port yesterday at 2 p.m. with the Mails, and is due here on March 25 at about 6
obtained.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undeliver- ed after 27th March, 1928, will be subject to rent.
All Claims against the Steamer highways, unless preceded by a 6 a.m. must be presented to the Under-man on foot carrying a red flag, signed on or before 3rd April, put an end to the enterprise. 1028, or they will not be recog
As Ship Builder. nised.
Immediately following the close All broken, chafed and damaged of his apprenticeship, the young Goods are to be left in the Godowns, engineer's engagemont with Messrs. where they will be examined on any Coleman lasted about two years, Tuesdays or Fridays, between the and all through that time he was hours of 10.45 a.m. and Noon, busy inventing and patenting vari- within the Free Storage period of ous useful appliances, frequently One Week.
acting as consultant and expert
elected.
THE BANK LINE, LTD.,
General Agents, Hong Kong, 21st March, 1928.
4.01.
The D. & Co. 5.5. "Bolton Castle" sailed from New York on February 4, and is due here on March 25.
The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of Russia" frem Hong Kong on March 7 left Yokohama on March 16 at
March 25.
Asia" arrived at Manila on March The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of 10 at 10 a.m. leaves Manila on Mar. 24 at 4 p.m., and is due at Hong Kong on March 26 at 10 a.m.
No Fire Insurance has been witnesa in patent cases, and m., and is due at Vancouver on Bills of Lading will be counter-to start business as an engineer. gathering the capital with which
signed by
At the age of twenty-two, in part nership with a foreman engineer, named Hedley, he rented a derelict ship-repairing yard on the Isle of
The Swedish East Asiatic Co., Dogs, on the Poplar side, of the Thames. For a time, the business Ltd.'s M.V. "Formosa" left Ham- WAS not successful, but about burg on March 17 and is due here. 1867, Yarrow announced to the on or about April 27, public that Yarrow & Hedley were prepared to build steam. Jaunches for whoever wanted them.
COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE,
HE Steamship
ed from Port Said on Feb. 20, and The D. & Co. s.8. "Venezia" soil-
is due here on March 29.
The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of The first order for a steam
Canada" left Vancouver for Hong launch was placed by a retired “DOCTEUR PIERRE BENOIT" colonel, named Halpin, and the Kong, via Japan ports and Shang Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk, vessel was successfully launched hai, on March 17 and la due here Rotterdam, Antwerp, London, &c., in 1868. Other orders followed, on April 5.
CONSIGNEES are hereby inform-and it soon became clear that Alfred Yarrow had found the voca- ed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and tion in which his comprehensive Valuables are being landed and grasp of marine engineering and stored into the Godowns of the ship design could be most effee- In 1875, the HONG KONG KOWLOON WHARF tively employed.
The D. & Co. M.V. "Toledo” sail- ed from New York on February 18, and is due here on April 12,
The motor ship "Rion," of
been launched at the Unterweser Yard, in Germany, to the order of the Soviet Republic. She is to be a twin-screw craft, and German engines are to be installed.
& GODOWN CO., LTD., KOW- partnership with Hedley was dis-about 1,000 tons deadweight, has LOON, whence delivery may be solved, and in the same year the obtained immediately after landing. young head of the new firm mar- All claims must be sent in to me ried Minnie Franklin, thus setting on or before WEDNESDAY, the his life on a firm basis." 28th March, 1928, or they will not
Works Extended,
be recognised.
Agent. Hong Kong, 19th March, 1928.
CONSIGNEFS' NOTICE.
DAMAGED PACKAGES will be The years between 1868 and examined by the Company's Sur-1875, however, must be noted, as veyor, Mesars. Goddard & Douglasa perod of development. ' In 1873, in the presence of the Consignees the Yarrow steam launch ́ çame at 10 a.m. on SATURDAY, the 24th into use for the carrying of what March, 1928.
was then known as the "spar tor No Fire Insurance will be effected pedo," and the great speed and by us in any case whatever."
efficiency of the little boots quick- L. LESDOS,
ly attracted the attention of the naval authorities of the whole world. The works were extended and the staff increased to meet the incessant's domande.coming from the United States, Italy, France, Austria, Holland, and other countries, and all the while the indefatigablo inventor con- Consignees of Cargo ex 8.8. etantly sought out the means of "Paul Lecat" are advised to send obtaining higher speeds and great- In claims to the Agent before er stability. The introduction of March 29,
the "Whitehead" torpedo in 1877, Consignees of Cargo ex B.B.quickened the desires of the na "Docteur Pierre Benoit" are adviations for possession of the most ed to send in all claims to the effective weapon in naval warfare then existing, and from that dato Consignees of Cargo ex 8.5. Yarrow's yard became a veritable "City of Dunkirk” are reminded to arsenal from which the naval take delivery of their goods which powers drew a large part of their will be subject to rent after March equipment for conflict.
Prosperity now flooded in on Consignees of Cargo ex 8.8. Yarrow & Company, and the "Benavon" are reminded to take struggle of Alfred Yarrow for re- delivery of their goods which will cognition had ended. Like the
YORK & BALTIMORE. Agent befors March 28.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
VICE OF
'BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.
(OCEAN S.S. CO, LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL SS, CO, LTD.)
AND
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AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE be subject to rent after March 28, marriage of the much-tried heroine
(ELLERMAN & HUCKNALL 8.&. CO., LTD.) SANINGS FROM TONG KONG.
8.8. "CITY OF DUNKIRK” AL, Via Suez Canal
8.8, "CITY OF EASTBOURNE Via Suez Canal
20th Apr. 18th May, 16th June
8,8; "CITY OF NEWCASTLE? Vin Suez Canal Steamers proceed via Sue Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Ontion.
"Subject to change without notice." Fuat pinj
and hero of romance, prosparity, in a sense, takes away the glamour. It is proposed by some of the of a young man's career, though Japanese shipping concerns that the after events are really of more more lighthouses should be erect-practical importance to the world. ed by Japan to prevent disasters But that part of the record of
Croatises. They assert that the lack Yarrow & Company is written of lighthouses is responsible for large across the naval history of the frequent occurrence of ship: the past fifty years. Another pro wrecks off Japan Japan has duct of his many-sided engineer only194-lizhiksusea.
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May 2nd
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