FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928,
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 SOUTII AFRICA, AUSTRALÁSIA, 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.)
8. 5.
Mons
From Hong Kong i
About
~KHIVA
-MIRZAPORE
SMACEDONIA
KIDDERPORE
→KHYBER
Destination
$4,1352751 Oct. Marseilles, London & Hull..
Ngon +0,716 1et Nov. Straite & Bombay. 11.120 10th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
13th 5,334
Nov. Straits. Bombay & Karachi. 0114 24th Nov. Marseilles, London & Hull
* Calls Casablanca.
*Cargo only.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaun, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Xhedival Mail Steamship Co.
TALMA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TTAKLIWA
GANARA
UTILAWA
*Cargo only.
10,000 27th
Oct: Singapore; Penang & Calcutta. 2.30 p.m. :7,934 ⚫rd Nov.
6,012
Nov, 16th 10,003 28th Nov.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st Land 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and
carry a qualified surgeon.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
COMPASS THEFT
FORMAL REMAND GRANTED AT KOWLOON
FRESH DEVELOPMENTS
A formal remand of one week was granted by Mr. W. Schofield, at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, on the application of the police, In the case in which two boatmen are charged with the theft of a ship's compass from the sis. "Kalgan,” (a Butterfield and Swire, vessel) while she was lying at her berth in the harbour some few months ago..
Det. Sub-Inspector Dorling, who is la charge of the case, informed His Worship that inquiries made by the police had led to fresh develop- ments,
CANAL TRAFFIC
THE GRAND UNION COMPANY
A DEVELOPMENT The beginning of a movement to revive and increase the use of canais as effective means of transport was Indicated at the general meeting of the Regent's; Canal and Dock Co., when an announcement
was made that on January 1 next the Grand Union Canal, Co. will come into existence with a capital of £3,500,- 000, and 240 miles of waterways connecting London and Birmingham, with arms to serve important towns. The new company is a fusion of the Grand Junction, Regent's, and War- wick and Birmingham Canals,
interest in
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
Destination
Tau vin Stow & Shal Ttau via S'tow & S'hal Tian via S'tow #S'hai Tinu vin Stow & 'bat Osaka via "Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
Osaka via Amoy, Shanghal,
Moll & Kobe Straita & Calcutta
Sandakan, Sandakan
Canton Tientaln Tientsin
Sailing
KWONGSANG..Sun., 28th Oct. at 7 a.m. Wed, 81st Oct. at 7 a.m.
. Steamer
HOPSANG KWAISANG ...Sun. WAISHING....Wed,
4th Nov. ut 7 a.m. 7th Nov. at 7am.
.KUMSANG
YUENSANG NAMSANG HINSANG MAUSANG
.Sun., 28th Oct. at 7 a.m.
.Sat,
Fria
3rd Nov. at 7 a.m. 2nd Nov, at 3 p.m. .Wed. S1st Oct. at Noon
Thurs, 16th Nov. at 3 p.m. KWAISANG .Sun., 28th Oct. at 8p.m. CHEONGSHING.Sat., 27th Oct at Noon CHIPSHING... Tues., 6th Nov, at Noon For Freight and Passage apply to:-- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.
General Managers.
FEAR OF USURENS
The total first cost,. Including building and plant: is estimated at 625,000 gls, and three large ship- That a Siklit moneylender, Karnnil owning companies in the Nether Singh of the Pales Hotel, had offer- lands, viz-Nederland Steamshiped him $50 not to give evidence wag Company, Rotterdam Lloyd and the filegation.nde by Kartar Singh, Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschap-motor-ear dealer and driver, in the The former shed a Chinese for 100,000 gls, each; the financial post- pl. have agreed to bear a share of Sry Court yesterday.
$540 and the latter gave evidenco tion of other shipowning and of the under subpoena. One of the wit- shipbuilding companies in the
ness' statements was the "if ho told Netherlands, unfortunately, does not enable them to contribute materially
the truth all the moneylenders would be against him." He admit- to the capital cost of the undertakted in cross-examination that he is ing, and approximately one half of heavily indebted. the capital required will have to be. furnished by the Government.
LOCAL SHIPPING
TO-DAY'S ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
Working expenses are estimated to amount to 65,000 gls, per annum, This amalgamation may be re- while the income from experiments garded as the first-fruits of recom-is put at 25,000 gls., leaving a deficit' mendations made by a Royal Com- of 40,000 gls, per annum, one half of misston which inquired into the which the committee hope to wipe canals and inland navigations of the out by private subscriptions, leaving United Kingdom some 20 years ago,20,000 gls, por year to be paid by states the "Daily Telegraph." It is the State and/or other authorities. a modest beginning, and the results will be watched with view of the fact that the. Commis- sion set out a number of reasons standing in the way of any attempt being made to improve canal trans- port by private enterprise, and sug- gested Government assistance and the formation of a Waterway Board. In England and Wales there are canala and the 1,927 miles of Commission's plans involved the development of four main routes, all radiating from Birmingham and the Midland industrial districts to the Thames, the Severn, the Mersey, and the Humber. That to the Thames is the one now being taken in hand.
The defence is that the promissory ente was not signed at the Palace Hotel, plaintiff's registered address."
Julgment wns reserved.
Mr. Sadao Saburi, the Japanese chargé d'Affaires, gave a dinner on September 18 at the Japanese Embassy in honour of Count Uchida. Among the guests were:--- Lord Hailsham, Sir Ronald Lind-
Bay,
Sir Maurice Hankey, Sir Arthur Willert, Sir Edward Crowe, Sir Horace Hamilton, Sir William Berry, Mr. Douglas Hacking, M.P., Mr. W. F. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. G. A. Mounsey, Mr. J. T. Pratt, Mr. City of Khios (3,551) British, W. Strang, Mr. G. N. M. Bland, from Yokohama, Keelung Bank Dr. Harold Williams, Dr. Dougins Line: 672 tons tea (through). Crawford, Colonel E. F. Lawson,⚫ Chenan (1,854) British, from Mr. H. E. Sly, Mr. J. L. Garvin, Shanghal, Amoy B. & S.-850 Mr. H. A. Gwynne, Mr. R. D. tons general cargo for Hong Kong, Blumenfeld, Mr. J. S. Hodgson, 380 tons (through).
'Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. J. O. P. Antung (2,107) British, from Bland, and several members of tea Singapore, Amoy B. & S.-1 pas- staff of the Japanese Embassy.
Mr. J. E. Smith, of Loughborough- senger, 500 tons firewood for Hong Kong, 20 tons general cargo road, Brixton, S.W., entered Д
train
(through) B
on a recent Saturday at Sunning,670) British, from Canton B. & S60 passengers, Paddington to see his wife off to
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). serviceable, larger barges and 1,000 tons general cargo (through). Cornwall, when the train started
Manila, Sandakan, Thuraday Island,
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney
&
tons through. 1929
ARAFURA
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
ARAFURA
4th 4,000 1
Nov. 0,950 30th Nov. 4,600 28th Dec
6,000 let 0,060 lat
Feb. Mar.
-TANDA
Australia.
Melbourne.
If canals aro to be made more
Tata (0,154) British, from Kobe and he was carried to Newton speedler methods of passing through locks are essential. Bonta on allMackinnon, Mackenziu:-478 tons! Abbot, Devonshire. English canals can pass one another general cargo for Hong Kong, 1,280 in the open, but not in the locks, and to this cause, as well as to the numerous bridges of small span, much delay is attributable, especial toy on the Birmingham Canal, where traffic is heavy. There are two
Khiva (5,500) British, from Yoko- classes of canal craft mainly in use, barges measuring from 60ft. to 70ft. lama, Slanghai-Muc. Mackenzie: and 14ft. wide, and narrow boats,-50 passengers, 109 tons general er, as they are colloquially known, cargo for Hong Kong, 1,795 tons
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Ilofia Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other parts en route as inducement
offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New "monkey boats," about 70ft. long, Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal
The P. & . Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
but only 7ft wide, chiefly used in the Midland and Southern cannis. The barge will carry about 60 tone,
tons, with the same draft of a little, over 3ft.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and and the "monkey boat" about 30 'London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
Oct. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 6 p.m.
KHYBER
9,114 | 26th
"KASHMIR
"TILAWA
8,985 10,000 0,950
10,080
2nd Nov. Nov. Ďth 6th Nov. 9th Nov.
TANDA
MALWA
*Cargo only.
S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Maji, Kobe & Osaka. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Blectric Fans free of charge. Steamers on Lendon and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. -
Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.
For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to— MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
+P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C.; HONG KONG.
Agenta,
TESTING TANK
PLANS FOR ITS CONSTRUC. TION IN HOLLAND.
SHIPOWNERS' SUPPORT
At the funeral at Belmont Abbey, Khyber (5,074) British, from Lon- near Hereford, of Dr. F. E. Glad- don, Singapore-Mackinnon, Mac- stone, formerly organist at Llandaff, kenzie:-70 passengers, 2,138 tons Chichester, and Norwich Cathedrals, general cargo for Hong Kong, 4,728 four monks sang "In Paradisum, tons through.
through.
Glenbeg (5,85) British, from passengers, 1,047 tons general corge Middlesbro, Singapore-J. M.:-7 for Hong Kong, 4.500 tons through.
Tjisoridlari (5,018) Dutch, from Sourabaya, Muntok J.C.J.D.:-742 passengers, 2,885 tons general cargo for Hong Kong, 0,426 tons through, Vulcanus (707) Dutch, from Can ton-A.P.C.
Times Mari (1,804) Japanese, from Keelung-M.B.K.:-1,930 tons coal for Hong Kong, 1,800 tons (through)
Shini Matu (2,014) Japanese, from Fremantle-Y.K.K.:-1 paa senger, 848 tone sandul wood for Hong Kong, 2,015 tons through.
ton
Tak Hing (105) Chinese, from Autau-Fook Hoi Co.:-1 general cargo for Hong Kong, 40 pas- Bengers.
A committee appointed by the engfacering and shipbuilding section of the Royal Netherlands Institution of Engineers, to inquire into the desirability and financial possibility
Tak Hing (101) Chinesa, from of a ship model testing tank in 'the Netherlands, has issued Its final re. Macao-Hoo Hing Co.:-00 tons, port. The members of this com general cargo for Hong Kong.
Tai Leo (1,044) Chinese, from mittee were Mesara. M. C. Koning, Chefoo-Yee Tai Col:-725 tona gen- director of the Nederland Steamship Co., chairman; Ioost, Nethercral cargo for Hong Kong, 1,150 tons
benns through. landa Navy, secretary; A. van Driel, Wing Led (641) Chinese from Fort engineer and naval architect; G. Bayard-Yiu Yuen Co.-51 passen- Hooft, principal engineer of the gers, 280 tons general cargo through. Fijenoord Shipbuilding and En- |
Departures gineering Co.; R. van Leeuwenburg, For Hoihow: Menado Maru, principal surveyor to Lloyd's Regħ- |·Halvard, ter, Rotterdam; E. Vossnack, of For Swatow:-Hydrangan. Delft University; and E. B. Wolfi, For Canton:- Times
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE director of the Government Bureau Corona, Chenan.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL” LINE.
(OCEAN S.S. €0., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL 8.8. CO., LTD.)
AND
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL SS CO., LTD.)
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
S.S. "CITY OF KHIOS"
5.6. FYRRHUS” VILLA
8.8. "CITY OF PERTH"
S.S. "CITY OF CHESTER".
Via Suez Canal:
Via Suez Canal
Via Suez Canal
Via Suez Canal
25th Oct
-16th Nov, 80th Nov. 23rd, Dec.
18teamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option.
Subject to change without notice.
For Freight and particulars apply tu
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong, Mông Kosz & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. Carston
for Aeronautical Research, Bussum. For Haiphong-Vulcanus.
The first meeting of the com-
For Macao:-Tak Hing. mittee was held early this year,
For Saigon:-Shun Chib. when financial and technical sub
For AutauTak Hing. committees were formed. In ne- For Singapore:- Van cardance with instructions issued Seattle Maru." the committee has based its con siderations on the report of the Boyal Commission of 1918.
Maru,
ster
Arrivals Departures In Fort
8. 8
* Clearance. For Swatow: Kwang Tung. For Swatow Svale... For Shanghai-Diomed. The committee have since found that shipbuilding arms and others
British are spending about 20,000 gls, per
Japaneso annum on model experiments, which Norwegian have to be carried out in other coun Chineso tries, through lack of appliances In Dutch," Holland. An experimental tank of American 525ft free length, 80ft. width and Danishnetke o bila 1642: 6in, depth, with a car speed of French LADE 30 to 3342. per second, is considered Portuguese amply sufficient for all needs expect
ed in the future.
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which Dr. Gladstone had written for the occasion.
Mrs. Jane McBride Struthers, of Megan-street, Glasgow, became ill and died while on her way to a wedding on a recent Saturday.
COUNT THE "MAILS.”
See Page 3.
President Liner
SAILINGS
Weekly Trans-Pacific Service
To San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu.
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays.
Pres.- Taft
Pres, Jefferson
Pres. Lincoln
Pres. Madison
Nov. 6th.
Nov, 20th.
Dec. 4th.
Dec. 18th.
To Seattle and Victoria.
The Short, Straight Route to America. -
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays.
Pres. Jackson
Pres. McKinley
Pres. Grant .....
Pres. Cleveland
Oct. 30th, at 8 a.m.
Nov. 18th.
Nov. 27th.
Dec. 11th.
£120, £112 Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of Special through rates to Europe via United States. rail lines merces United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
Europe and New York Direct
ROUND THE WORLD.
Fortnightly sing on Sunday via Manita, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston. Pren. Adams ..Nov. 4th–8 n.34, Pres. Gardel „Nov. 18th 8 a.m. Pres. Harrison .Dec. 2nd 8 nm.
Pres. Monroe.Dec. 18th 8 a.m. Pres. Wilson ...Dec. 30th .8 .m. Pres. Van Buren Jan. 18th 8.
To Manila
Free. Taft.....Oct. 27th 6 p.m. Pren McKinley Nov. 6th 4 p.m. Pres. Jefferson Nov. 19th 6 p.m.
Pres. Grant ...Nov. 20th 6 p.m. Pres. Lincoln..Nov. 24th 6 pm. Fren. Cleveland Dec. 4th 6 p.m.
For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor. Telephone Central 2177, 2478 and 7051
Cable Address "Dollar."
CANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Sha Kea Street.
American Mail Line
and
Dollar Steamship Line
AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY
S.S. "CALULU”.
will be despatched hence on the
21st November, 1928
for SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE
via 'Rabaul For Freight and Passages apply to:- V
Tel. No. Central 1080
DODWELL & CO., LTD,
Agents. Queen's Building.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO.. LTD
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS nad IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is gunZAMĚNNÁ. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Blipways, end exa accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
*Town Office: 44, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel Central No. 654. Shipyard: Sham-Sal-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kowloon Ma., D. Estantes furnished on application. Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: “MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.
Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition;
Western Union and Watkins,
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER
MAKERS, IRON, STEEL AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, ELECTRICIANS.
Single Screw Steel Passenger and Cargo Motor Vessel," "P. ABOITIZ,”
134 ' 6" B.P. x 27′ 0′′ Mld. x 11′ 2′′ Mid, Built to the order of Mess
iz Inc., Cebu, for Philippine Inter-Island Service, Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:
R. M. DYER, BSc, MIN.A., Kowloon Dock