SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,
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.)
1:59
8. B.
Tona
From Hong Kong About
Destination
Jan. M'scillos, C'blanca, L'don & Hull. '9,144 19th
Noon 5,273 24th Jan. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. - TO,953 2nd Feb. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
7th Feb. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. 18th Feb. M'ecillos, C'blanen, L'don & Hull.
2nd Mar.
Marnotiles & London, 9th Mar.
KALYAN
*ALIPORE
MOREA
KIDDERPORE 5,334
KASHGAR
MACEDONIA
*PADUA
9,065 11,120 6,907
*Cargo only.
M'ailles, London, A'werp, R'dam, &
Hamburg.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to. Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Ports by steamers or the Khedival Ball Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SIRDHANA
SANTHIA TILAWA TAKLIWA.
TAKADA TALAMBA
7,746 | 16th Jan. 7,764 29th Jan. 10,000 1 7th Feb. 7,936 13th Feb. 0,949
22nd Feb. 3,013 7th Mar.
Singapore, Fenong & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
&L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
*
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
ARAFURA..
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
6,000 1st Feb. 6.956 lat Mar. 4,500 | 30th Mar.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
Regular monthly mailings. from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in. ducament offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:—
The Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdota via: New i Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc..
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Capo. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
TILAWA
KASHGAR
*PADUA TAKLIWA TAKADA
MACEDONIA TANDA TALAMBA KHIVA TALMA MALWA *NAGPORE ST. ALBANS KHYBER NALDERA
5th
| 10,000 | 15th Jan. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 0,005 18th Jari S'hal, Moji, Kobs & Yokohama. 6,007 -24th Jan: S'hai, Moll, Koba & Yokohama, 7,936 20th Jan. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, al 6.049 31st Jun. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 11,120 1st Feb.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 0,966
Fch. Moji, Kobe, Osaka and Yokohama. 8,018
Feb. Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Yhama & Osaka 9,135 15th
Feb. Shanghai, Mojí, Kobe & Yokohama: 10,000 18th Feb. Ainoy, S'hat, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. 10.086 1st Mar. Shanghai, Mofi, Kobe & Yokohama. 5,283 4th Mar. Shanghal Moj Kobe & Yokohama. 4,500 5th Mar Moji, Kobe, Oeskn '& ·Yokohama. 9.114
Shanghal 16,088
* Cargo only.
8th Mor. 15th Mar.
Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama,
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS,
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own. Hotel expenses mt Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying ateanier.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fana free of charge.
..
Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 24 ft. x2° f£x1 ft. will be recolved at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to exiling............
For further Information, Pasanges,, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & V. Building, Connaught Rd, C., HONG KONG.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CARDIFF DOCKS -- THE ENGLISH GENIUS
CITY COUNCIL AND COALING
- APPLIANCES
MR. BELLOC INSTRUCTS THE
FRENCH
CONSIGNEES.
LLOYD TRIESTINO N. CO.,-
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
'SS. “VENEZIA L"
From Trieste, Venice, Brindia), Fort Bald, Mizusanna, Aden, Karachi, Colombo Penang and Bingapore.
The Parliamentary Committee of Mr. Hilaire Bailac has been in- the Cardiff City Council; have 'structing Paris in the genus of decided to vend a deputation, con- the English race. We have, to his sistlag of the Lord Mayor and Town eye, two features which stand out. Clerk, to London to interview Sir The first la imagination, imagina- Felix Pole and his fellow-directors tion accompanied by emotion, of the Great Western Railway re- which we are not good at expres garding the decision of the company sing, except in lyric poetry," The to close downtemporarily certain second is an aristocracy of feeling
NONSIGNEES of Cargo 'are coating appliances at Egat Dock, and habits, which Mr. Belloc finds hereby informed that all Goods "In violent contrast to the spirit Cardiff. The deputation were in-of equality now general,”...: Wik are being landed at their risk intë' | structed to remind the directors of rellef we read that it is not "Im the Godowns of the Hong Kong and the solemn pledge they had given posed by any caste," not even the Kowloon Wharf & Godown Com- bu 1921, when the amalgamation of wicked rich, but is inherent in our pany, Ltd. at Kowloon, whence railways was under consideration.
Insular nature. It is good to see and/or from the wharves delivery The Lord Mayor, who presided at ourselves as others see us, but we may be obtained. the meeting, said official figures confess a mild surprise that Mr. Optional Cargo will be forward- showed that the decrease in trade Belloc sees us like this. The por given before 12th instant.
ed unless notice to the contrary be this year as tpmpared with last trait is not unpleasant. It looks an year was only three per cent. as interesting fellow. But why does the Goods have left the Godown, far as Cardiff Docks were concern he call it an Englishman ed. On the other hand, the decrease It is true that the dogma of the ed after, the 18th inst. will be sub and all Goods remaining undeliver- In Swansea and Port Talbot Docks equality of man has not many ject to rent,
TRADE OPENINGS
- No claim will be admitted, after
by
Bill of Lading will be counter::| signed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.
Hong Kong, 12th Jan. 1929.
NOTICE. TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN
was 21 per cent., and the result of practising believers in England, All claims against the vessel the Great Western Railway proposal but till Mr. Ballot told, us, we had must be presented to the under would be to exercise economies at no idea that "the spirit of equality signed on or before the 28th inst. the expense of Cardiff alone, al was now general" anywhere. On or they will not be recognised.. though most of the decrease of the other hand, it has been re- trade had actually taken place in marked by foreign. observers that Goods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chafed, and damaged other ports. Another important the principle of discipline which where they will be examined on point was that the proposal would Francis Drake, no hero of Mr. the 18th inst. at 10 am. close six of the tips et East Dock Belloc's put into the famous buryeyors, Messrs. Goddard & that could deal with 20-ton trucks, phrase, “I will have the gentlemen with the result that Monmouthshire to pull and haul with the mar No Fire Insurance has been
Douglas exporters might be discouraged iners," is enforced in English
effected. from sending their coal to Cardiff customs as a code of honour, Per any further. It was stated in the haps Mr. Bellos will reply that to course of discussion that arrange require of the officer the same ments had been made for delivery endurance and the same labour as this year of more coal from Cardiff the man is true aristocracy. But the, unlikeness of his portrait" of than for several years past.
the truebart Englishman is rather in what it leaves out than what it puts in. Surely the most striking thing which the English race has done in the world is commit the vaat territories of the United States and the British Empire to occupation by people in whom English' blood is potent, who take
From ÚS.A. With the abject of stimulating their thoughts from the English interest in openings for British language and their rules of life HE Steamship trade in South and Central Amer- from the English customs and "CITY OF BEDFORD" ica, Major Edgar Manning visited the English law. It seems prob having arrived, Consignees of Newcastle recently, and addressed a able that this is a consequence of Cargo by her are informed meeting under the auspices of the same Important characteristics. that all Goods are being landed at Chamber of Commerce. He pointed Imagination may have had some their risk fato the hazardous and/ out that it was British enterprise, thing to do with it that or extra-hazardous Godowns of capital, energy and brains which aristocracy of feeling which be Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery may and made Latin-America, but things lieves in leadership was no doubt be obtained to had changed since the war, and we useful. But it needs something
No Claims will be admitted after had not kept up with American more to colonise half the world. the Goods have left the Godowns, ideas of business. Britain had cer- The vulgar notion that an English- the exception of some gas coal, and diaposition, a turn for managing ed after 16th January, 1929, will tainly get the coal trade back with man has by nature an adventurous and all Goods remaining undeliver he believed gas coal could be up and making intreatable Chings must be presented to, the Under-
situations without an explosion be subject to Rent.
All Claims against the Steamer plied from the Tyne.
Latin-Americans knew they would for it which an artist painting signed on or before 22nd January, but they preferred them to goods of bear.Daily Telegraph. have to pay more for British goods, the genius of our race should 1929, or they will not be recog
*LACK OF PROPAGANDA IN
SOUTH AMERICA
other countries: „The first essential was to get the right people in South America either to import goods or to act as representatives of English firms. Britain was lacking in pro paganda in South America.
side.
1
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
The P. &.0. 3.5. "Karmala" from Hong Kong arrived London on Jan 10 at 2 am; ;'
work, has something to be said.
nised,
LINE
W
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and Noon within the Free Storage perfod, of One Week.
No Fire Insurance has been effected
by Bills of Lading, will be counter-
signed
THE BANK LINE. LTD, General Agents. Hong Kong, 9th Jan., 1929,
over
IDLE U.S. SHIPS
DECLINE IN BUILDING After his speech, Major Manning and Interviews with several pro- Whereas during the year ended minent commercial men on Tyne-June 30 let the world's supply of
shipping increased by nearly 2,000 000 tons, or 3 per cent, the mer chant fleet under the US, flag, aggregating 10,854,000 gross tone." was 6,000 tons less in size on that fact, the more riziking because of date than 12 months earlier. "This the anxious efforts of the author marine, which ranked third in the ties to promote United States ship world in 1914, had now been fo The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of ping in every way, is brought out legated to the sixth place. It Russia arrived at Shanghai yes- in the report of the Secretary of ranked lower than those of Japan, terday at 1.30 p.m., left Shanghal Commerce just fasued, state Italy and Germany, and it was to-day at 9 ata., and is due at Washington advices, but by reason of its age. While Nagasaki to-morrow at 3 pm. Moreover, the capacity of ship the French commercial balance The Ben Line a.a. "Benvrackle" under construction in the United showed a deficit, the nation was from Middlesbro', London, Strafts States declined from 144,000 gross paying to other countries and Philippines, is due to arrive tons to 45,000 tons. The report 2,000,000,000 in freig here on Jan. 17.
remarks that moderate recession The Ben Line ss. "Benaider" took place in the activity of the from Leith, Dunkirk, Antwerp, ocean shipping of the United States London and Straite left Singapore and of the world as a whole during for this port yesterday, and la due tha, fiscal, year under review. Thiá was to be expected in view of the to arrive here on Jan. 17. N ;
The M.V. "Nippon" (Swedish abnormal demand for space, which East Astatie Co., Ltd.), left Dun had prevailed in the previous year. kirk on Dec. 24, and is due here. Idle shipping in the United States on or about Jan. 31. on June 30 last totalled 3,039,000, The CFS, RM.S. "Empress of gross tong and was 185,000 tone, or Australia" B/W Crulsa arrived at 42 per cent, more than of the Bombay on Thursday morning, corresponding date of the previous leaves Bombay on Jan. 17 at & p.m., year This increase was and le due at Hong Kong on Feb. accounted for in the larg 13 at a.mt.
of privately-owned vesse MM 161,000 tons. Ičle Projected arrivals at and depar- Board tonnage, in tures from Hong Kong of steam- lahed by ers under the management of the in all of the Bank Line, Ltd, are as follows: countries combined ***Arrivals at Hong Kong 000 gross dom 8.3. "City of Pekin, from tone, or Europe; January 27:
SS. "Poleric, from New York,
NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE, Feb 1
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL- LINE
(OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD, & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)
AND FORM
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
MAN & BUCKNALL 98. CO. LTD. ILINGS FROM HONGY TÖNGIN
8.8 City of Khartoum," from Europe, Feb. 24
New
of Guildford," from
cent. In
Shipph
President Liner
SAILINGS
Weekly Trans-Pacific Service
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
To Seattle and Victoria
The Sunshine Felt via Honolulu The Short, Straight Route to Amirlon -
Fortnighdy anülnes on Turadera.
Fonnisbete anillos on Stečaja, Pres. McKinley Jan. 15th Noda Pres Jefferson
Jan, 29th-Près. Lincolt ... Feb. 12th | Pres. "Madison Feb 29th Près. Jackson
Pres. Grant... Pres. Claveland Pres. Pierce-
Jan. 22nd Feb. 5th
.Feb. 19th
.Mar. 5th
£120, 112 Special through rates to Surope via United States. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sightseeing.
Europe and New York Direct
ROUND THE WORLD.
Fortnightly, stillaga on Sunday, vis Manda, Strato, Colomb Saex Canal, Alexandela, Naples, Gasols, Marseilles, New York and Boston, Fres. Van Buren Jan, 13th 8 mm
Pres Adams. Pres Hayes
***, Jan. 27th 8 a.m Pres. Polk
Feb. 10th 8 a.m.
To
".......Feb. 24th 8 am,” Pres. Garfield, Mar. 10th, 8 u.m., Pres. Harrison,Mar. 24th 8 mamă
Manila.
· Pres, Jefferson · „Jan. 15th 6 p.m. ƒ Près Cleveland Feb. 2nd 6 p.m.
· Pres. Grant'.......... Jan. 19th.6 p.m. {· Pris. Madison: „Feb, 12th 6 p.m. Pres. Lincoln ..Jan. 29th 6 p.m. † Pres Pieres Fah, 16th 6 p.m..
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