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From
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*PERIM
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MIRZAPORE 1 0,715 *ALIPORE KHIVA KHYBER
5.M.
Destination
Rotterdam & Hamburg.
Marseilles, London & Huil
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SANTHIA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TILAWA SIRDHANA
TALAMBA
TAKLIWA
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THE CHINA MAIL,
"MARIE CELESTE
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The
MORE ABOUT THE. EXPOSURE
some hot water and rushed of. couldn't light the fire and dare not go back. The male said a tot of rum would be better. The mate after see ing the ship was pat right, went to bed; the captain stood beside his un- consciouc wife all through the night. oft-debated mystery of the
At the morning watch we were told brigantine Celeste has cropped up that Mrs. Brigga was dead. The cau- once again through the medium of an tain had gone off his head, and exposure of what it is contended was wouldn't leave the body of his. wife. nothing more than an elaborate hoax The planny lay all upsey-downsey, and as appeared in a recent issue. The fol- the captain was kicking at it and curs lowing are additional particulars: ing it wildly. We were all scared. On December 7, 1872, at ten o'clock There was talk of the evil luck that
brought.
STEAMER SOLD
FORMER OWNER-BUYS THE "ANJOU"
لا
The s.. "Anjou" formarly on the Hong Kong-Wuchow run, was yester- day sold by auction at Lammert's Auction Rooms for $13,500. She was purchased by the former owner, Mr. Tam Pik-shan. It will be recalled that the sale by auction was ordered by the Supreme Court of Hong Kong as the result of a mortgage executed
in the morning, a ship was sighted in M Briggs and her pianny had in a recent case, the Atlantic, sailing with a full spread
The mata took more and
The upset price was $43,000. of canvas towards the Spanish coast, more rum The captain stayed in the The Anjou is a steel screw vessci" As she did not respond to signals and cabin whimpering. Then the mate. of 809 gross tennage and 354 net showed ro signs of life when who had been saying all day the body tonnage and was built in 1899 by A. viewed through the xlasses, the must be buried, ordered Jack Bossell, Legal & Co. at Nantes. Her dimen- slipper of the, hailing vessel the carpenter, to prepare a shroud. sions are length 142.7 feet, beam 25 sent a boat's crew to investigate. The The captain, who had placed the pinany fact, and depth 10.7 fest. She was stranger was the brig "Marie Celeste." back in position, was in the cabin. He engined by A. Mancour & Co. at In the forecastle
were five seamen's would not allow the body to be taken. Nantes. and registered under chests and two canvas kitbags, still con- There was a row between him and the British flag at Hong Kong. taining the outfits of the crew. The
of
CONSIGNEES.
LLOYD TRIESTINO N. CO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
galley range, though raked out, waste. The captain accused the mate of hot. A cat was peacefully asleep murdered Mrs. Briggs by alter- the position of the pianny, and ún a locker. A meal was laid on any now wanted to cover up the table in the after-cabin. Three cups jernin by throwing the hedy over- tea were lukewarm. The board The mate was alarmed at this vessel had been abandoned precipitately new turn and came up to think how for no apparent reason. It was the he could escape a charge that might be difficult to answer on shore. Then say- world's greatest mystery of the sea."
agely he announced that, captain or "Ay." was a music-box, a pianny.ro captain, the body was going to be that played the biggest part in the buried. But when three men were sent mystery of the "Marie Celeste." Ainto the cabin they returned with cottage piany that they used to call the news that the captain was bath. Chartered Steamer, in the American free-and-easies a "paring the body from a bucket of alcohol,. evidently with the idea of embalining it Poll."' But none of us evCT
-can-
corn.
"TIMAVO"
the
CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby Gocds are being informed that all landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Gedown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 28th instant.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 2nd July will be subject to rent. All claims against the vessel must bo presented to the undersigned on or before the 12th July or they will not be recognized.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns,
1
Jour
From Trieste, Venice, Spalato, treamt for a moment when we saw and producing it on shore to prove Brindisi, Port Said, Suez, Massaua,
However, the burial that pianny shipped to please the Cap. Mullock's guilt.
sume Karachi, Colombe, Bombay, Penang & then occurred some- tain's wife that it was to bulk so large took place, and in the world's greatest mystery of the thing that was enough to make your Singapore. sea that I have now cleared up once and the captain ordered that Peter Sanson, and never come down again. Thus John Pemberton, aged 92, at who was the steersman when the big for all."
care that made the pianny leisure in his little home on the out wave skirls
of Liverpool. He is the sole break away, was to be sewn up survivor of the brigantine Marie ras at once and thrown over the side. Celeste," and he is mentioned in the The mate struggled with the captain book, "The Great
Celeste and they both fell down the Marie
There was a pause, and Hoax," by Mr. Laurence Keating, just panion way. published in which the mystery is when Hullock returned he had been John drinking again, He brought up bottles cleared up cuce and for all Pemberton never leaves you in doubt of rye whiskey for the whole of the as to what he thinks. He does not crew and wild scenes followed. Later merely dislike tall men, for instance Hullock announced he had at last per He just hates them. He does not mind suaded Briggs that the culprit was not and that instead. 7,648 | 29th June | Marseiller, Lin, Hull. Antwerp, if you regard him as at times a little the steps on but the nanny, and tha:
iraccible. That is his privilege. had to be buried Always he wears an old-fashioned tail-was at once pulled up out of the cabin cost. It is the habit, of a lifetime, and pitched overboard. It had brought Some of his friends say the tailcoat is all the ill-luck (and you will see by that in which he came to Liverpool 57 the book how much more followed), but years ago, direct from the drama of looking back on it all I think it was a the "Marie Celeste." Ho celebrated waste of a good pianny to chuck it over-where they will be examined on the that occasion by "having his "photey board. I wish they had given it to me. 2nd July at 10 a.m. by our surveyors
bacon.
No Fire Insurance has been effect took," probably for the only time in his It was a good planny." Just like a box Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
You tell him it 19 typical phases.
The greatest of all sea mysteries was ed. life. His Individuality reveals itself in of baco
aham. It was concocted by Captain Bill of Lading will be countersign- warm. "Yes, two overcoats warmer
han yesterday." "This piane of which Moorhouse, of the brig "Del Gratia," ed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD., you speak. Was it heavy?" "No. not for the sake of the salvaga money ob
derelict ship.
Agents, heavy, massive." "And the shape of it?" tainable by tinding a
Hong Kong, 25th June, 1920, Just like a box of lacon." This last Captain Moorhouse's mate revealed the details about the warm cups of tea and smile is understandable.
"I was the cock in the "Marie the cat. The details were true. Celeste," he
"As a boy in tea was about to be drank by the three explained.
was a men who remained in the brig after Liverpool, where my father
as the the death of Captain Briggs and his well-known character known crossing-sweeper of Blod-Street," I wife. Hallock and the rest had desert-
ed at the part of Santa Marta. go knew often enough what it was to hungry, and I determined to be a cook, to be always rear where the food is. And all my life I've been a cook. Not, mind you, like some of these people who call themselves cooks to-day, but a real cook. True, the mate of the "Marie Celeste"-I called him Starlight Hullock because of his red nose-used
Mesara. Birmingham Electric For-
The times and heights are given for that is a common enough reference at sea to a cook, who is supposed to kill parade, Birmingham, have received au the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen,
George-street-Kaulung: hat they may be used for. naces, Limited, 55, the people he doesn't like. I didn't mind that from him, but it was a dif- order for a reheating furnace from the differences being very small.
Company, Limited, The times of high-and low-water ferent thing altogether when i saw in Meears. Moss Gears
be considered to coincide Tyburn, Birmingham, for a box-type must not an American magazine a few years ago carburising furnace and a reheating with the times of slack-water änd that the real clue to the mystery
"Marie Celeste" was that the book furnace from Messrs. Alvis Car and change of current, the two phenomena
Engineering Company, Limited, Coven-being quite distinct. eaning nie poisoned everybody on board, threw the bodies overboard and try, and for three reheating furnaces then fell in after them. That annoyed Limited, Park Works, Lockwood, Hud- from Messrs. D. Brown and Sons, me so much I decided to break
New South Wales The for 50 years. I insisted dersfield.T kept It is my vindication. I can go Sydney, have just ordered, from my friend Mr. Keating making this Government, Railways and Tramways, Limit in-book.
to the grave satisfied with it. You Meaars. British Brown-
if it ed, Trafalgar House will find the full story there, and
further high- three does not give you a thrill there must London, S.W.1,
power rectifier equipments, each interrupted him. "But this adventure which is for an output
7,754 4th July 10,000 24th July 7,745 29th July
13: 3,013
Aug. 7,936 8th Aug. 10,000 23rd Aug.
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rink 8.9 mi tu 10 10 458.8 3 52 x 0.8
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11 8437 4 2 0,8 never have been a four equipments already supplied. Sun. 23m 172.257 us there would
Limited, Trafford Park, It caused Messrs Royce, "Marie Celeste" mystery.
moment it came Manchester, have secured orders for Mon. 21m 0 21 37 m bad language the
5 43 05 9 46 7.3 do. five electric overhead cranes of b and
Tues. 25
7 u 1 3.6 m 88914 aboard. It was so awkward to handio. five and it was so like a woman to bring 10 tons capacity, from Messrs. Davey,
623 a Limited, Col Wed, 261 52 5.5 m 3 £7
in 10 17 7.z it. Mrs. Briggs, the wife of the cap Paxman and Compan
She chester. tain, of course, was responsible.
recent contracts in- Othmpany
m. 10 617 D wouldn't sail without it. They put it include one 50-ton and two 5-tos over-
Thurs 27 m 2 5 3.6 m 20 3.5 head electric cranes for a railway com 1 bit of a recess in the cabin between
31 36. the port and starboard bulkheads, and pany in Brazil, one 6-ton overhead Starlight Hullock was furious. He crane for Buenos Aires, one 10-ton said he had no leg room and that the overhead travelling grab crane for interfered with sleep. South Africa, and one electric espatan playing of it
a great powerful man for India. Hullock was ith hands like a
For "Armstrongs a block from Baltimore, with
he sat of mahogany. I wouldn't care,'
Messrs. Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whit- to me, if she had brought a concertins worth and Company, Limited New- or a fiddle, but to bring a big planny castle-on-Tyne, have secured a contract aboard without so muchi as a by-your for the construction of an oil-tank leave
is too much. Every time I turn motorship of 8,800 tons dead-weight in to sleep she plays her fandango, and for Mr. Per Gjerding, Bergen, Nor
The propelling machinery will I'm not going to stand it. She does
way. deliberately." The relief from the consist of Armstrong-Sulzer Diesel en- trouble, or some of it, came in an un-gines. They have also secured a con-
de Four days out from tract from the Companhia expected way.
Navega- New York there was a terrible storm.cno Lloyd Brazileiro, Rio de Janeiro, and the pianny broke loose from its for the extensive reconditioning of lashings. It was starting to break uns.s. "Camamu" and 2.8. "Inges. The the cabin as it was flung this way and work involves the supply and instal- that, when the rate went in. Bie as it lation of new boilers and the conver- was he picked it up, and lashed it in sion of the vessels to burn oil fuel a new position. Mrs. Briggs was mad. Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs, Limited, She ordered the carpenter to move it Elswick Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, back to the old place, but the mate told have been entrusted by Mosers. Lever the carpenter to leave it alone, and the Brothers, Limited, with the order for captain couldn't interfere with a man the hydraulic equipment for the en- like the mate I didn't realize until
of their new dock at afterwards that behind where the trance lock
Bromborough. The lock gates are in pianny wad Inshed before was a store course of manufacture at the Barrow of lauor that the mate wanted."
Messrs. Vickers-Armstrongs works. "Well, the mate got more leg room, have also recently received orders
and more sleep, and we were having six hydraulic and two sisstrical, cap-
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a spell of fine weather when November stans for India, which will be con 24, 1872, came along. That was the
day on which the last entry was made structed at the Elewick works E-
the captain in the log of the Bineering.
by
"Marie Coleste." The vessel was pick-
The following have been elected Fellows of the Royal Empire Society-Kuala Lumpur: G. D. Barron, A, Gordon Macdonald, Mrs.
ed up, you remember, ten days later, without a soul on board, and yet, in per fect order, and no one ever found trace of the crew. On that Sunday morning, without the slightest warning, wo hit a hurricane squall. Enormous F. Macdonald, C. P. Smith, H. J. Waves swamped us, the steersman was Stennitt: Singapore: Prof. K. B. washed away from the wheel, and we Williamson, MA., Taiping; Mrs. thought the ship had gone. In the midst of it there was a shriek from the D. R. I. Clayton, Teluk Anson cabin. The tinkling at the planny had 0. F. Conoley, MB.C.S., Glynn stopped. Max Briggs had been play Jones, L. F. Tribe. ing hyman tunes on it. I went down to the cabin after a while with Captain Briggs and the sight was terrible.
The Board of Trustees and Staff The pianny had bem flung across the of the Foreign Y.M.C.A., Shanghai, cabin and lay bobbine up and down held an "at home" for Mr. and Mrs. in the water. Mrs. Briggs had been T. M. Haslett, Mr. and Mrs. WE. flung with it and lay underneath. She was unconscious. I was ordered to get Hines, and Mrs. LE McLachlin.
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