FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1929.
P.&O.-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.
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
8. 9.
Tors
From Hong Kong About
Destination
SCOTTISH YARDS
3.
ר
THE CHINA MAIL,
PREPARING FOR THE RECENT
SUMMER HOLIDAYS
HALF YEAR'S OUTPUT ·
The main feature of interest in Clyde shipbuilding recently is the preparation for the annual holiday period which begins soon, writes the Clyde correspondent of the "Journal of Commerce" to hand.. Shipyards
and engineering works, will then be closed down for a period varying from ten days to a fortnight, and there is at present much activity in the winding up of auch work as is in the final stages completion.
In view of the July holidays the output of
in June is new tonnage in usually well above, the
average of the other months, and this year is no exception. With the exception of March, when an unusually large num ber of big ships were put into the water, the
new tonnage the output of last month was greater than for any of the previous montha of the half- | year. An output of 30 vessels of about 39,000 tons is a substantia! amount, even for the Clyde yards, and it shows no signs of falling off. This brings up the half-year's out- pat to 118 vessels of nearly 286,000
INDO CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer
Gatling Shanghai via Swatow .... YUSANG
.Fri., 9th Aug. at Noon Ttan via Stow & S'bai. YATSHING...Sun., 11th Aug. at Noon Tta via 'tow & S'hai .. CHAKSANG Wed, 14th Aug. at Noon Ttnu via Stow & S'hai
KWAISANG Sun, 18th Aug. at Noon Ttau vis Stow & Shal KWONGSANG Wed., 21st Aug. at Noon
Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe
SUISANG......Thurs., 15th Aug, at Noon
HOSANG
A. KUMSANG ..Fri, 23rd Aug. at 7am. .Sat., 31st Aug. at 7 a.m." KUTSANG...Wed., 11th Sept. at 7 a.m.
Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
Kobe Osake via Amor, Moji &
Kobe S'pore, Penang & Calcutta NAMSANG Sat., 10th Aug. at 3 p.m. S'pore, Penang & Calcutta YUENSANG ..Mon., 19th Aug. at 3 pm. Sandakan
HINSANG Mon., 12th Aug. at 3 p.m. Tientsin
CHIPSHING.Fri, 23rd Aug. at 10a.m. Tientsin via Wei Hai Wei CHEONGSHING.Tues., 3rd Sept. at Noon For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.
General Managers.
tons, which is slightly less than the and the Goschen," for the South M.S. "ASAMA MARU”.
New Railway Sleaner
amount launched at the correspond- India Railway Company, ing date last year, but it is nearly double the amount for the first half After running trials on the Firth of 1027. Ini the half-year im- of Clyde, the fast passenger mediately preceding the
"Vienna," outbreak steamer of the
ed
year,
which
Messrs.
TRIAL SPEED 21 KNOTS
first of a war ther were launch- John Brown and Co. have built for
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY on the Clyde 120 vessels of a the London and North Eastern Rail- total of 267,000 tons, which is about way Company's service to the Con- 19,000 less than for the past half- tinent, has returned to her builders' basin at Clydebank to complete fit- New Work
ting out,
This vessel, which was Taunched An encouraging feature of situation is that new orders were re-the first of three which that firm are the by Messrs. Brown in April last, is ported more freely during June than building for the L and N.E.R. Com- in the preceding month. May prov-pany. The two sister ships are to ed blank so far as the announcement be named "Prague" and "Amster of new work was conf ned, but in dam" respectively. They will repre- Juna a substantial an
At of ton- sent the last word in comfort and was placed on the Clyde, while luxury on the crossing between. Ilar nage a few orders also went to east coast wich and the Hook of Holland On firms.
Perhaps the most important the Vienna," which is now almost individual order
reported booked by Messrs. Lithgows, Limit-dation is provided for 450 first-class was that ready for service, sleeping accommo. ed, Fort Glasgow, for two additional
und and 104 motor tankers, each of 13,000 tons, There are four large and luxurious- second-class passengers making four in all which that firmly furnished cabins de luxe. Each of for the United Molasses the vessels will have a sea speed of
Orders for 211⁄2 knots.
❤KIDDERPORE
MALWA
*KASHMIR
MOREA
MANTUA
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseillea & London, Marseilles, London & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo. & Bombay. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
5,334 16th Aug. 10,980 17th Aug. 31st Aug. 8,085 10,953 14th Sept. 10,946 28th Sept. 0,715 2nd Oct. 5,273 9th Oct. *Cargo only. Calla Casa Blanca.
*MIRZAPORE
*ALIPORE
Frequent 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 TALMA DALGOMA
PAKADA
TILAWA TALAMBA
7,936 15th 10,000
5,958 4th 6,949 5th
31st
Aug. Aug. Sept. Sept. | 10,006 4th Oct. 9,013 8th Oct. Calls Rangoon.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calentta.
BI. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon,
are Ltd., London
પ્રમ
word
The N.Y.K. newly-built M/S "Asama Maru" of 22,000 tons, the serica of three large palatial passenger liners ordered for the Orient-California Service,
WE recently put through her official trials at Nagasaki, attaining the ex- cellent speed of 21 knots which is almost a record for Diesel per hour
engines.
This magnificent vessel, carrying equipment of any passenger liner, the moat
luxurious and up-to-date will make her maiden voyage from Japan, to California in September.
She will come to Hong Kong on December 8 and sail 11 on her first voyage
on December from Hong Kong..
HARBOURS IN CANADA
of
The ever expanding trade When the "Vienna" leaves Clyde- Canada is making increasingly heavy bank there will still be in the fit demands upon the transport and har- ting-out basin the two large liners bour facilitles Rangitane" and "Rangitato which During the past few years large rail- of the Dominion. Messts.. Brown are completing for way, extension schemes the New Zealand Shipping Company. carried The former vessel was launched as of out and
programme construction and improve "Bangitata" ment, involving recently as May, but the
expenditure
BA
ave been
Company, two large twin-screw motorships were also placed during the month by Messrs. Holt and Co., of Liverpool, with Scottish firms, one vessel to be built by Scott's Company, Greenock, and the other by the Caledon pany, of Dundee,
Messrs, Barclay, Curle and Co. booked an order for a 13,500 motor tanker for Norwegian
the Blythswood Com since March. On the stocks the firm system of $53,750,000, is at present has been fitting out in the basin or the Canadian National Railway owners, and pany an order for a passenger and have the 40,000-ton express Atlantic under discussion at Ottawa. cargo steamer for New Zealand.
Again, liner for the Canadian Pacific Steam-a The industry has fortunately been free from labour troubles for a 20 ships, Ltd., the two L. and NERA good deal of attention has recent
ly been directed towards the
Cana- siderable time, but the shipyard join-couple
steamers,
already referred to, and a dian canal system, and our readers ers are again' showing some signs of
of destroyers for the Britiah will recall that several large recon- unrest in connection with their claim
Admiralty.
The destroyers, which struction scheme are
are actually in pro- the "Acasta" and gress. Generally speaking, the ports for an advance of wages to the ex-the "Achates," are of the same class
are to be named tent of 3. per week. The Greenock aa the Arden, launched by Mesars. branch of the Amalgamated Society Scotts, Greenock.
Woodworkers sent. protest to the Executive Council gesting the adoption of drastic ac tion to enforce their demand for
of
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). wages increase.
TANDA
ET. ALBANS 4,500 ARAFURA TANDA
ST. ALBANS
6,958 30th Aug. 4th Oct. €,000 Ist Nov. 6,950 29th Νου. 4,500
3rd June
.1930
A
sug
12
The
Shiprepairing drydock accommodation at Glasgow is fully occupied and at certain of the repair estab lishments there is some pressure of Most of the new vessels which work to get repair jobs, complete I have been running trials
before the
yards close for the
annual will holiday period. The graving docks at over Govan
arc fully occupied, and
Vessels Completing
es- ara
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday leland, to their owners before the yards contained the Henderson liner "Kaneuver. Halifax, Three Riversi
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.
be completed and handed
&
close down for the
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
ducement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
..
holidays; mendine," the Pacific. Steam and one OT two more will be ready for speed tests. Out-
for
nail-cladocked at
and
ex-
in each саве
President Liner
SAILINGS
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
To San Francisco and
Los Angeles
The Sunshine Bolt via
Honolul
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays
To Seattle and. Victoria
a.m.
The Short, Straight Hozta
to America Fortnightly Bailings on Tuesdays Pres. Lincoln Tues., Aug. 18, 3 Pres. Cleveland Tues. Aug. 20, 9 Pres. Madison..Tues., Aug. 27 Prea. Pierce ...Tues., Sept. 3 Pres. Jackson Tues., Sept. 10 Pres. Taft....Tues. Sept. 17 Pres. McKinley Tues., Sept. 24 Pres. Jefferson..Tues., Oct.
TO SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES VIA HONOLULU. DIRECT PRES HAYES
£120, £112 Special through
rates
Oct.
2
1
to Europe via United States, Direat connections with all Atlantic Hinas, Cholce of rail lines acroES United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT
ROUND THE WORLD.
Fortnightly sailing on Sunday via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandra, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York
and Boston.
a.m.
Pres. Wilson..Sun. Aug. 11, Pres. Polk....Sun. Sept. 22, 6 Pres. V. Buren Son. Ang. 23, 8 Pres. Adams...Sun. Oct. 6-8 Pres. Garfield Sun, Sept. 8Pres. Harrison.Sun. Oct. 20, 8 TO MANILA
Pres. Cleveland Aug. 13.6 p.m. Pres. Jackson Aug. 31 6 p.m. Pres. Madison Aug. 17 5 p.m. Pres; Taft.....Sept. 10 6 p.m. Pres. Pierce...Aug. 27 6 p... Pres. McKinley Sept. 14 6 pm. For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Telephone Central 2477; 2478 and 795.
Cable Address "Dollar." CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA REE STREET.
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
AND
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
SPEED
GOOD SERVICE - COMFORT S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Week Day Sailing from Hong Kong at 2 p.m. Arriving Macao at 5.30 p.m.
Sailing from Macao at 7.59 a.m.
*
·
Arriving Hong Kong at 11.20 a.m. Sunday Sailing from Macao at 6 p.m. H.K. 10. p.m. Freight and Passage apply :--
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO, LTD.
4. Connaught Road W.
Tel: C. 6061
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years experience. We bwn two Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Town Office: 64; Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kowlom No.
Estimates furnished on application.
of the Dominion are modern and well equipped, but their resources, pecially during certain seasons, often severely taxed. Bearing this in mind, the news that the Dominion House of Commens has passed Bills providing for substantial loans, for development. ритровоз, to various harbour Commissioners in Canada, ia of more than usual interest.
Five harbours, namely, Montreal, (Quebec), and Chicoutimi (Quebec), are to share in the development tion Company's motorship "Lautaro scheme, and the sim involved. is standing among these is the new and
new and the Furness-Withy liner "Pacific $29,000,000. The amounts to be Brocklebank liner "Markhor," which
which Pioneer."
pended at Montreal and Vancouver Messrs. Wm. Hamilton and Co., Port At Elderslie, Messrs. Barclay, total $10,000,000 Glasgow, have built for the well- Curle and Co, have had two of the $5,000,000 will he spent at Halifax, The E. & A. 6.5. Co., Ltd., Steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, known Liverpool firm. This steamer, Blue Fuel Line fleet in for repairs and $2,000,000 at each of the har- Cabu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in Which is about 7,800 tons sow couple of Clan liners have also At Montreal, the Kink
"Menelaus" and the "Telamon." is grose,
-bours of
of Three Rive
Rivers and Chicoutimi. due to be Que
Edward and been at the dockyard for overhaul, Laurier Wharves will be reconstruct painting, The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New mite. The dry-docking will be car-
previous to going
one of them being the "Clan Mac-ed and, at the same time, three new the measured into which new stern tube barths will be built on
bean." Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
ried out for Messrs. Hamilton by the were
At their Mesars. Bali Clydeside Wharf. In addition, the the Laurier The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.
rail- Works Mesars. repair department
Messrs. The . & 0. Branch Service of steamers to Landon via the Cape.
Ajusander Stephen and Co. Lint-Co. have a couple of Ellerman-City eatery tent will be extended to the section of the Harbour, the house. The "Markhor" was launched liners, the "City of Benares" and, the grain-conveyer aystem enlarged, and The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and about the middle of May last. Her "City of Birmingham, both for desk further industrial wharves and berth- London via Panama Canal.
single-reduction geared turbines were and engine repairs. Among smaller ing facilities provided. supplied by Mesars, David Rowan vessels overhauled by the firm were
At Vancouver a now ocean pier and Co., Glasgow, and during con- cargo ateamers, the "Rhineland" and a grain Jetty are to be built,
the car struction the vessel was superintend and the Sutherland.
and wharves for the હત
were bandled in 1928, At Halifax, a on behalf of the owners
Stephen
coasting and Messrs. Alexander
and Ashing trades, and
tioned above in connection with har- fish stores and pler, transit sheds and a revetment bour developments at Three Rivers Messza. A. Goodwin-Hamilton and Sons have had a
substantial amount cold-storage plant and premises are of Liverpool
wall are to be constructed, and im Adamson,
of work on hand, one of the most imto
will be expended on the provision of Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Important additions portant addition made to the grain seven additional bertha The loan of Mesara, Recently
D. and Amoy, Maji, Kobe & Osaka.
W. portant contracts being the fitting of to the erected.
grain-handling facilities at the elevator to enlarge its capacity by 1 $2,000,000 to the harbour commission Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
million bushels. the Anchor liner
Three rivers, an at Chicoutimi, an important post, at over to her owners the carge steam-on Moj Kube. & Danka, a
expenditure of some 50,000,000. The important manufacturing city and the head Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. half dozen new vessels which the on the "Anchoria, another vessel of it Je stated that whereas 56,000,000 also Berves Shawinigan
Moji & Kobe Clyde firm of Messrs. H. Hogarth the same fleet and on the cargo bushels of grain were delivered in Grand mere, and other growing in-
Falis, extending the wharf, at Shanghai, Moll, Kobe Yokohama. and Sons are adding to the act steamers "Findhorn" and "Michael 1924, no less then 97,250,548 bushels
an additional Kobe, Osaka & Yokohamaa... Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
at the present time, A sister ship, Tricoglu. The Furness-With liner the Baron Ramsay,"
"Pacific Experter s is now being
also been over- Kobe
fitted out by Messrs. Henderson, who
hauled
by Mesars, Stephen.
Henderson have at their, wharf in the river Messrs. D. and c. War Kelvin no fewer than three new
the have
steamer new ships
to Мелета. fitting out. In addition to the belonging
amport "Baron Ramsay," they are complet and Hoit, Liverpool, in the Meadow- ing two railway steamers, the "Irwin side Drydock, and at their wharf in the Kelvin some overhaul work is being carried out on the cargo, steam- er "Garibaldi."
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
NOREA
TAKADA
"SHEAFMOUNT
*GARBETA
KARMALA
10,953 16th Aug. 16th Aug. 6,349
17th Aug. 5,327 20th--Aug. 9,128 30th Alis
"MIRZAPORE 6,715 2nd Sept.
NAGPORE
ST. ALBANS
TILAWA
ALIPORE
MANTUA
TALAMBA
*KIDDERPORE
KALYAN
*NELLORE
5,283 4th Sent 4,500 10th Sept.
10,000 10th Sept.
5,273 11th Sept.
10,948
18th Sept Sept
17th Sept
5,334 25th Sept.
• Cargo only.
27th Sept 29th Sept.
Amoy, Hop, Kobe & Osaka Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.
Shanghal, Moj Kobe & 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 at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer, bag. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2 x 2 1 1 ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.!
For further Information, Fassage, Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & D. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Agents.
er
by
Hong Kong, April 1, 1924,
Henderson completed and handed additional passenger "Bonne fort will also be made, involving an
"Baron Vernon,the, first of a Some voyag‹ Spark wore executed need for these will be evident when harbour, on the St. Lawrence river, Seguen sanon, on the
dustrial towns. The $2,000,000, men- 2,400 oction, or
under construction, for an
HONG KONG TIDE.
TO CHANGE HANDS
The tide table given below has been obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting WHALING COMPANY Machine, which includes 40 compon ents for the better prediction of tides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal. observations,
raken at the Low- loon tidal observatory under the
According to an Oslo massage, the direction of Dr. Doberek during the negotiations for the sale of the newspaper "Morgenbladot" states that years 1887, 1838 and,
The timer heights are given for Atlas Whaling Company to British Kowloon
but they may be used for interests are well advanced, and that the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen, an official announcement may be the differences being very small looked for shortly. The price to he The times of high-and low-water paid for the shares, 18 understood, mur not be considered to coincide will be 110 per cent.
The Atlas Whaling Company, states
2nd
NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE, with the times of slack water and the "Financial Times, was formed
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.
(OCEAN SS. CO., LTD, & CHINA MUTUAL SS CO. LTD.)
AND
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALI, 85. CO. LTD.)
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG,
9.5 CITY OF CANBERRA
8.S.PYRRHUS”.
Via Suez Canal
Via Suez Canal
10th September
30th epbember
Steamers eed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option
Subject
BUTTERE
change
KLINE, ETD Hong Kong ESUN & CO LTD) Canto
change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct
DITI
Augost
August 9 to 15 1929
January 14, 1929, with a abare capital of about £275,000 in kroner, fully paid op The comp the passenger steamer"Stockholm purchased from the
(KE LOW WATIR can Live some months
CORVILS
and is
now reconstricting it as a foating factory. It has also placed a con- tract for the construction of four whaleboats with a Norwegian ship bullding/company.
All theso, shire were to be deliver Ted in August, and are to set off/on their finst whaling, expeditions to the Antar Cin Septe
OLD TAYLOR
AGED BY TIMES
be devoted to Present
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: “MANIFESTO HONGKONG.
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER
MAKERS, TRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS –
ELECTRICIANS,
The Com pany pos sospes Six Granite
ocks and Twe Pat
ent
Way The dimensions.
Dock are
of. No. 1
700
口
.x
M.S. SUGBO
Caden Used:
AL A.B.C.
Fifth Ell-
tien: En gineering:
Single, screw steel passenger and cargo motor ship. Dimensions: 15% 0 B.P. 280 MIL 11 6 Mld.; D.W. 470 tons, B.HP 60; Speed 10% knots. Built and machinery installed by The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd to the order of La Nasiera Filiping Inc, Cebu for Philippine coasting service
Please address
to the Chief Manager
R. DYER BS MINA, Kowloon Dock, Hong Kon
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