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THE CHINA
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THE WHANGPOO
A HARBOUR AFFAIRS COMMISSION
INTERESTING PROPOSAL
SHIPPING ....
SECTION.
ON THE PACIFIC
details of the FIRST.
STEAMER
THE "BEAVER"
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NO ENTRY
BRITISH MASTER'S SUCCESSFUL APPEAL
COSTS GRANTED
LondonThe King's Bench Divi- sional Court allowed the appeal of George Henry Patterson, master of the British steamer "Gretavale," from the decision of the South Shields magis- trates, who dismissed his complaint.
four
members of the ship's against
crew of an alleged offence against dis cipline during the voyage from Colombo to the United Kingdom. At the hear- ing of the complaint, preliminary ob London, March 30..
Jection was taken by the defendants Mr. F. A. Pauling, Agent-General that the magistrates had not jurisdic-. for British Columbia, furnishes addition, as no entry of the alleged offence tional details of the remarkable histery was made in the ship's log book. The of the steamship "Beaver," to which magistrates ruled the objection good, he referred on March 27 at the open and dismissed the master's complaint. ing of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Mr. William McNair, for the master, of native Indina skill, which is being submitted that the magistrates' de- held at the Imperial Institute. As-evideision was wrong-in-law, as they had ence of the great skill of the natives power to continue to hear the case. of that province, a commentary or
Chief which appeared in "The Times" on March 28, Mr. Pauline mentioned that the "Beaver" in 1850 visited a number of the coast villages of British Colum
Interesting statements with refer- ence to the establishraent of the Har hour Affairs Commission for Greater Shanghai and the proposal to take over the Whacgpoo Conservancy Board have been made by Mr. Chih Ting-mau, the Commissioner, to the Chinese Press, these being, briefly, as follows:
Board The
Whangpoo Conservancy was formerly known as the Whangpos River Improvement Commission and
Giving judgment, the Lord was established in the 27th year of the
Justice said there was no doubt the The
provisions in the Merchant Shipping teign of Emperor Kuang-hsi. establishment of the Whangpoo Con-
Act for making entries in. log books the interests of ship- servancy Board was based on Article
were as much 11 of the 1842 Treaty with, Great Bribia, and a month later, on revisiting one owners as accused persons. His lord- tain, according to which both the village, found a miniature replica of ship would be sorry to give any decision the protection. Chiness and foreign governments were herself putting of from the shore to which might diminish
to accused equally responsible for the payment of meet her, with smoke-from burning which the Statute gave the annual expenses of the Board which leaves issuing from funnel and napersons, but when one looked at the amounted to Hk. Tls. 400,000. In the tiven turning the paddle-wheels, the various provisions as a whole, it was 8th moon of the 31st year of Kuang craft having beer constructed entirely not correct to say that the production
Indians. by the local
of an entry in the log book was a con- hai, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Mancika Government took over the
According to information in thedition precedent. The section dealing administration of the Board and paid Archives of the Library at Victoria, with legal proceedings stated that en- all expenses, and the late Mr. Chang British Columbia, says Mr. Pauline, trics in the log book should if prac Jen-talang, formar Viceroy of the two the "Beaver" was actually the first ticable be produced or proved, and in Kiangs, with the approval of the Im-steamship that entered the Pacific default of such production or proof the pertal Government, renamed the Ocean. She was 101-ft. long, 20-ft. Court hearing the case might in their Whangpoo River Improvement Commis-beam, and the depth of her hold was discretion refuse to receive the evidence! sion to the Rehabilitation and Mainten 11-ft She was built on the Thames, of the offence or act of misconduct. ance Board. During the Revolution in of oak and teak, and fitted with two The reason given for no entry hay- steam engines of 75 h.p. sach, made ing been made in the log book of the 1911, when Mr. Tang Shao-yi came south to negotiate with the represen- by Bolton and Watt. She was regard-Gretavale was that the alleged offence tative of the revolutionary movement, ed as a wonder ship at that time, and extended over the whole voyage, and it foreign merchants in Shenghai draft- her launching in 1835 was witnessed seemed to be ludicrous to say that it el 12 provisional regalations regarding by King William IV, and a crowd of was not practicable to produce the the Whangpoo Conservancy-Board and 16,000 people. Following a trial trip entry when in fact there was no entry submitted them to Mr. Tang for his to test her engines and her paddles, at all. He was satisfied that the words approval. These were approved and she was rigged as a brig to enable her of the section were sufficiently wide to have ince been effective. The two rea- io press the Atlantic, round Cape Horn, cover a case where was not practi sons for the rendition of the Whang- and up the Pacific to Vancouver under cable to produce an entry for the rea Doo Conservancy Beard sre (1) the 12 sail. She could not make the journey son that none was made. While the Act regulations of the Whangpoo Conser- by steam, for she had not enough room made the log book entry admissible in evidence, it did not make it the only vancy Board are not permanent regu- to carry coal for the Younes, therefore, evidence, and the proper course was for lations and have not formally been
Before leaving the Thames, signed by the Chinese Government, the paddles were presumably removed the magistrates to continue the hearing therefore the Board is non-existent in and stowed away for rediting at Van- of the case. accordance with the law; and (2) all conver, where she arrived after an ad- Justices Avory and Swift concurred, shipping administration rights, har- venturous voyage of 103 days. She and the appeal was allowed, with costs.
and creek conser- river
reached her destination in 1856, and
bour as for the Shanghai Harbour her arrival was celebrated by the Hud-
vancy
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE'S ORDERS
are part of the work of the Greater son Bay Company, for whose service Shanghai Special Municipality, in ac- she was built, arranging an excursion cordance with the regulations govern trip, in which many leading local men SIX ELECTRIC SHIPS ing the organisation of the Harbour of the day took part-a notable event Affairs Bureau of Greater Shanghai.In the nautical history of the Pacific. For the unification of the administra. After weathering the storms of the Bri. tion of Shanghai's harbour affairs, the tish Columbian coast for 98 years she Whangpóo Conservancy Board must was sold by the company to a grocer not be permitted to exist any longer at Victoria, Mr. Henry Saunders, who and the Harbour Affairs Bureau has converted her into tug. In 1888 she ran upor some rocks and was wrecked. Mr. Pauline points out, by way of tri: bute to the soundness of her construc. tion, that whon her engines were taken out they were still in good running order, after 53 years' service, while her timbers were turned into souvenirs and soid to thousands of admirers of her
been established in its stead. This Bureau will, therefore, take over the duties of the Whangpoo Conservancy
Board.
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BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
When they pass the Shiuhing Gorge,
The Dollar Steamship Line contem plate the construction of six liners, two the American travellers say "Well, we beats the Hudson River, of which may enter the around-the-guess this world service of the line, while the our show place." Continental visitors others will be employed in the trans remark that it reminds them of the Pacific service, replacing vessels now "Rhine and Switzerland." Whilst
trade. The placing of operated in that
"Surely, the the contract for two of these vessels British tourists declare with the Newport News Shipbuilding Lake district or the Scottish moors, little less vegetation." and Dry Dock Co. is expected to be an- but with a nounced shortly Two are to be built Now why not take a five-days' round by the New York Shipbuilding Corpora-trip and see for yourself. It costs you tion at Camden.
All six will be of the same type, only $40. about 650 feet long, with turbo-elentrie
A vessel new to the Colony arriv ed here yesterday. She is the s.9. "Tonan Maru" (ex-"Yeitoxu Maru" UNION-CASTLE LINE drive and a speed of about 20 knots,
whose owners are the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. The vessel entered under the command of Captain Y. Sugimoto and has a crew of 49
Japanese.
The "Tonan Maru" arrived from Colombo and is bound for Dairen.
It is understood that no cargo will
RETIREMENT OF FREIGHT DEPARTMENT MANAGER
and accommodation for about 350 pas- sengers,
It was announced recently by Mr. R. Stanley Dollar, vice-president of the line, that the vessels are to have larger The Southampton shipping com public rooms and greater deck spaces munity will lose a big-hearted sports than any of the eight vessels now being man by the retirement of Mr. Frank he discharged at this port, although D. Hooley from the position of head rated in the around-the-world seri vice. These innovations are expected she marries 6,800 tons of steel rails of outward freight department of the to make the vessels more attractive to for a firm in Dairen engaged in ruil-laton-Castle Line, says the "Journal of tourists. The vessels also may carry. way construction.
The vessel
Commerce." A native of the Hants aeroplane equipment. It is understood was built
n 1921 at port, Mr. Hooley has spent the whole that the vessels will cost about £1,400,- Innoshima by the Osaka Ironworks of his business career in the realm of 000 each.
a steel screw vesel of 4,370 local shipping, and during hia It is understand that the contract for gross tonnage and 2,723 net tonnage. association with the Union Steam two passenger and cargo liners to he Her port of registry is Hakodate, Ship Corngary, and later the Union built for the San Francisco-Sydney while her dimensions are: length, Castle Line, he made a host of friends, service of the Matson Line is to be 345 feet; breadth, 49.8 feet; and who will wish him all fuck and happi-awarded to the Bethlehem Shipbuilding beam, 25.8 feet. Engined by the reas in his retirement.
Corporation for construction at the San SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports, builders, she is capable of developing
M. Hooley joined the Union Steam Francisco plant of the company.
The WAKASA MARU
Ship Company at the age of 17 in the Bethlehem birl was the lowest of those year 1881 and has been
but was associated recently subinitted,
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
KAGA MARU
TANGO MARU
† PENANG MARU
SADO MARU
Mexico & Panama.
GINYO MARUI
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Thursday, 30th May.
Friday,
7th June.
NEW YORK via PANAMA.
+ ASUKA MARU
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva,
Friday, Marseilles. Tuesday,
† TOYOOKA MARU
31st May.
21st May
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
+ NAGANO MARU
† AKITA MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
TANGO MARU (Nagasaki direct)
† DURBAN MARU
HAKONE MARU
+Cargo unly.
Thursday, 16th May. Thursday, 30th May.
Fricay, 17th May.
Thursday, Monday,
23rd May. 27th May.
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ANDES MARU ......... Surday, 9th June.
She
390 N.ILI.
Bome.
MARINERS WARNED |with the outward freight department what higher than contemplated by the
COOPER BANK CROSSING ON THE YANGTSZE
until 1911, when he was posted as head Matson Line. Since then negotiations of the Southampton passenger depart- have been carried on with a view to ment, but after many years in that bringing the costs in line with the capacity he reverted to the outward ideas of the owners, and it is reported freight department
tment again, and became that a satisfactory basis has been ar On or about May 18 and without head of it in 1924, sacceeding Mr. C. S.rived at.
the further notice, the following changes Rae. During his association with will be made in the aids to navigation firm he has witnessed far-reaching |------ marking the Cooper Bank Crossing, changes, for he can recall the days when the old Union steamers ranged Yangtze River:----
between 2,500 and 3,500 tons, and also when there was very little more of the
Crossing Light-boat will be moved S. 51% deg. E. about 2.14 miles from
His successor as head of the out-
its present position, its characteris docks than the inner and outer basins. tics remaining unchanged. From the The Union Line then maintained a sail- new position of the light-bost, Kiu-ing every two weeks instead of one at shan Quoin Beacon will bear S. week as now. 10% deg. W., distant 2.6 miles.
Big Tree Light-boat will be moved ward freight department at Southamp N. 68deg. E. about 2 miles from ton is Mr. S. W. Coomber. A native of its present position, its characteris- London, Mr. Coomber joined the old ties remaining unchanged. From the Union Steam Ship Company in 1899 new position of the light-boat, Kiu- as junior clerk in the secretarial de- shan Quoin Beacon will bear S.partment, but after serving 12 months 20 deg. E., diktant 4.94 miles. All bearings given are magnetic. Charts affected: Marine Department
Charts Nos. 3 and 12.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES –Va Saigon, Singapore, harbour:
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
SANTOS MARU
MANILA MARU
GANGES MARU
BOMBAY Vis, Singapore & Colombo.
Friday, 17th May.
Thursday, 27th June.
Tuesday, 21st May,
SHINNOH MARU (Calls at Karachi) Monday, 3rd June.
DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, REIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA¬Vis. Singapore & Catoibni CHICAGO MARU
CALCUTTA—Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
KASADO MARU
SUMATKA MARU
Friday, 31st May.
Saturday, 18th May.
Wednesday, 22nd May,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports
AFRICA MARU (From Shanghai). Tuesday, 21st May. MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
MADEAS MARU
SAIPHONGYia Haihow & Pakhoi.
MENADO MARU
Thursday, 6th June.
Thursday, 8th June 10 am,
NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco & Panama.
JAPAN PORTS.
ALTAI MARU
SANUKI MARU
TACOMA MARU
AEELUNGVI SWATOW & AMOY.
HOZAN MARU
CANTON MARU
TAKAO-Via SWATOW & AMOY. TAKAO & KERLUNG
SANUKI MARU
For further particulars please apply Tel. Central No. 4986, 1089, 4090,
Saturday, 18th May. Wednesday, 22nd May. Friday, 24th May.
Sunday, 19th May. 3 p.m. Sunday, 26th May, 3 p.m.
Wednesday, 22nd May. to.-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
WARSHIPS HERE
The following are the warships in
Basín H.M.S. "Tamar." South Wall Basin: H.M.S. “Corn- wall," "Seames" and L16.
North Arm:H.M.S. "Seppy." West Wall Dock:-H.M.S. "Hermes." In dock:-.M.S.
*Bomme" "Bruce," No. 6 Buoy:S/m. L20.
No. 11 Bugy:H.M.S._ "Marazion."
Foreign Men-of-War
Swei",
Chinese Cruiser:"Yang No. 2 Buoy; "Hai Yung", No. 2 Buoy,
French Gunboat "Argus." `U.S.S. "Tulsa
DAILY RETURN
The following, are the Nationality and numbers of vessels arrived in and departed from the Colony during the 20 hours ending 9 a.m. to-day:-
Arrived Departed British
20 Japanese Norwegian
Chinese Dutch German Portuguese
fin that capacity he was transferred to the freight department, from which he worked from the bottom to the top. Previous to going to Southampton Mr. Coumber was head of the mail steam er freight department in London, a position which he had filed for four years.
SHIPPING BREVITIES
Captain C. Inglia, master of the s.s. "Seistan" in an official report “to the Harbour Master states: "One Chinese dark passenger died from chronic dysentery on May 13, and was buried at sea" The "Seistan” arrived here yesterday from Singe- pore and Hothow and her owners are the Oriental Navigation Co.
The motor vessel "Santoa Maru" (0.8.K,) which arrived here early this morning is reported to have one case of measles. The "Santos Maru" ar- rived here from Kobe.
The U.8.S."Tulsa" has arrived here from Canton. She is going to the Philippines where she will be put on the retired list.
M. TAKKUCHI, Manager.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE,
Consignees of cargo ex a
of Mablic" are reminded to take
Total number of vessels in port is delivery of their goods which will be 69.
subject to rent after May 21,
"City.
American
MAY SAILINGS DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wychow 2:00 p.m. S.S. "TAI HING"
[1,068 tona-Capt. O. B. Wilke] MAY
SÚN. 19th
ᎡᏞ
24th
WED. 29th
S.S. TAI MING” [649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] MAY TUES. 21st FRI. 31st SUN. 26th
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