SAL JRDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1929.
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.)
From Heng Rung :
About
S. 9.
Tons
{
+KALYAN
*NAGPORE
MACEDONIA
•KIDDERPORE KASHGAR
9,144 28th Oct.
11,720
1th Nov.
5,334
19th Nov. 9,005 23rd Nov.
2nd Nov.
RAWALPINDI 16,619 7th Der.
Dealination
Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp, Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg.
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & Louden. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp.
Bombny, Marseilles & London,
Cargo' only. Calls Casa Blanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Fassengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pirus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TALAMBA
TAKADA
-BHIRALA
TALMA
TILAWA
| 3,013 26th Oct 6,949 6th Nov. 7,841 15th Nov. 10,000 18th Nov. 8th Dec. 10,000 17th Dec.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. 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),
1st Nov 29th Nov.
NELLORE -*TANDA
1. 6,803 0,950
ST. ALBANS NELLORE
4,500
1930 3rd Jan. 3,853 Bist Jan.
*Calls Port Holland.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & . Melbourne.
THE
AIR RESEARCH
EXPLORING THE ETHER WITH GUNFIRE
THRILLS FOR THE SCIENTIST
of the
CHINA MAIL,
MARINE ENGINES
PULVERIZED TEMPERATURE,
CARBONISATION
COAL DUST
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
.
Kew Observatory-the eighteenth With regard to the possibilities for century setting for twentieth century marine work of pulverised low tem- scientific research-was the scene re- porature fuel, we are now rapidly ap- From NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA! cently of an inspection by meteoro-proaching the stage when such
AND MARSEILLES. logists from all parts of the Empire material will be available for bulk of the most modern methods for pru- supply. In this connetion alten- The Steamship, bing the secrets of the atmosphere. tion may be drawn to the "K.9.G."
"CITY OF CARDIFF" These were explained by Dr. plant at New Jersey, which started having arrived. Consignees of Cargo F J. W. Whipple, the Superintendent up last March. It is the larges of the Observatory. The exploration temperature carbonization plant so far are heing landed at thele riak into the low by her are informed that all goods —by means of gunfire air-waves-of set to work, having a throughput of hazardous and/or extra-hazardous Go- lair strata at a height of forty miles, 520-720 tons of bituminous coal dust downs of Holt's Wharf, whence deli-
holda for the acientist as great a and amalla per 24 hours. thrill
the penetration ду
very may be obtained. It is being operated by the Inter- Amuzan jungle by the traveller.
national Combuon
No Claims will be admitted after Heat of the Air
Engineering the Goods have left the Godownt, and Corporation, associated with Dr. Whipple explained how, by
Coal all Goods remaining undelivered after Oil Extraction, Limited, of Landon, 23rd October, 1929, will be subject: means of gunfire from selected points supplying. Un long contract, at varying distances from the Obaer minimum
&to rent. of 3,000,000 cub. ft. of vatory such as Woolwich, Shoebury- town gas per twenty-four hours, 535 must be presented to the Undersign- All Claims against the Steamer and Birmingham, the velocity:B.Th.U. per cubic foot, to the Public ed on or before 30th October, 199, and trajectory of the air waves thus Service Electric and Gas Company.or they will not be recognised. set up can be made to record their of New Jersey. progress on a photographic film, thus enabling graph to be made. Since sound travels more quickly, through atmospheres at ascending tempera- tures and vice versa, it is possible
nexs,
Large Rotary Tho installation includes eight standard retoris constructed by the Bethlehem Steel Corporacion. Each of these is a very large rotary, alight ly inclined, mechanically continuous, externally heated steel cylinder 72-ft. ed. long and 10-ft, dia., having an inner cylinder 85-ft, long and 5-ft. B-in dia..ed by, at-which carries the load.
to conjecture how hot the air is at the highest point of the trajectory.
"By means of observation balloons with
temperature, pressure, and humidity recording instruments tached to them, we have been able to ascertain the temperatures of the air at a height of about 14 miles," added Dr. Whipple.
Would Boll an Egg "Unfortunately we cannot get the balloons any higher. The tempera- ture at that height is roughly about minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit, Now comes the curious thing. The gunfire experiments all point to the probability of the atmosphere's be coming warmer at greater heights, and in all likelihood, when we reach a height of between 80 and 40 miles, the temperature is high enough buil an g."
to
Visitors watched with the greatest interest the sending up of an experi- mental balloon with recording instru- ments by Mr. L. H. G. Dines, the scientist in charge of this branch of research, and the son of Professor W. H. Dines, inventor of the Dines Meteorograph-as the apparatus for air exploration is called.
Prevent Damage
The aneroid instruments, with two sharp metal points which scratch their tell-tale lines on a tiny silver-plated sheet, as pressure and temperature react upon them, are encased in an aluminium cylinder and slung rigid inside a parachute framework to break the fall and prevent damage.
the
An official label attached to the bal- loon offers the finder Es. reward for returning
apparatus to the Observatory.
So sma!! arc the metal plates on which these records are taken that they can only be read by placing them under a strong microscopic lens and the necessary graphs are drawn by this method.
researches is to try to discover how The immediate object of these the atmosphere behaves. "Even yet, we don't understand exactly how the weather protestes really take place," said Dr. Bincs.
"The ultimate reason has not yet
SEA MORALS
The complete weight of each retart is about 150 tons, the outer drams being made in three sections, The two end portions are in, thick, and the middle section 1-in, thick, with all the scams hammer-welded water-gas heating and annealed.
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 period of One Week. No Fire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign-i |
THE BANK LINE, LIMITED," General Agents. Hong Kong, 17th October, 1929,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
LLOYD ROYAL-BELGE SA.
From ANTWERP.
Steamship,
"BOLIVIER"
Each seam is also reinforced by means of outer ateel bands 2-ft. wide and 13/16-In. thick, riveted and welded, while the inaer drum is on the same lines, but much heavier, made of 1 3/10-in, plate. The small coal enters the retort at one end and The travels along the inner cylinder dur- ing 15 hours, being raised to a tem- having arrived, Consignees of cargo perature of 400 deg. to 570 deg. Fahr. by her are informed that all Goods (205-300 deg. Cent).
Afterwards
are being lunded at their risk into the charge falls out the hazardous and/or extra-hazard- through small apertures into the ous godowns of Hong Kong and Kow- outer cylinder, which is the hottest loon Wharf and Godown Zone, about 925-1,025
Co., Ltd. deg. Fahr. whence delivery may be obtained. (495-550 deg. Cent.), and at the No Claims will be admitted after same time high superheated, steam at the Goods have left the Godowns, and 850-950 deg. Fah is blown through all Goods remaining undelivered after the charge, at this point, to the 24th October, 1029, will be subject -extent of about 100-200 lb. per ton of to rent. coal, so as to prevent undue expan- sion of the plastic charge.
Fuel Dast
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on before 31st October, 1929, or they will not be recognised.
All broken, Goods are to be left in the Godowns chafed and damaged where they will be examined on 24th October, 1929, at 10 a.m.
No Fire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign-
THE BANK LINE LTD., Agents.
The low temperature carbonization is completed in another 1 to 1 hours travel in the outer cylinder, the temperature slowly declining to about 800-900 deg. Fabr (430-485 deg. Cent) while the speed is one re volution In 90 sec. A certain amount ed.
low temperature fuel of the
dust and breeze, nat over 10 per cent, ised by blended with the raw coal to prevent the plastic charge aticking, while for heating the setting producer gas is barnt in a small irebrick combustion chamber, and the very hot gases at 2,370-3,095 deg. Fahr. (1,500-1,700 deg. Cent) diluted, not with air, but 50 per cent of the waste com- bustion gases re-circulated to give approximately 1,100-1,290 deg. Fahr, (600-700 deg. Cent), passed all round the retort.
DRUG TRAFFIC AND A MASTER'S give the
DUTY
Water Gas
Hong Kong, 18th October, 1929,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED,
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.
The Steamship,
"BENCLEUCH"
The installation at New Jersey includes a large water gas equipment, which a used to supply blue water gas, this being mixed with the rich low temperature carbonization gas to ft., as statedium of 3,000,000 cub.
In emergency, how. Consignees of cargo are hereby in- ever, the water gas plant can be formed that all goods are being land- The conviction of the master of operated as a carburetting installation ed at their risk into the hazardous the "Hong Kheng" under the Ses Cusso as to produce all the desired amount and/or extra hazardous Godowns of toma Act in Rangoon following the dia of town gas direct. band opium on the ship in April has of Revenue at Simla. been set aside by the Central Board
Regularly sallhugs from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong covery of 223 lbs. 12 ozs. of contra- to Australia.
The E. & A. 9.8. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Ileilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timur. Darwin, or other ports en route as in- ducement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--
The Officiating Collector of Customs in fining captain $1,000 and order Ing the confiscation of the onlum, held that the master of a vessel is expected
The Union S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New to take special preventive measures to Zealand, Vancouver, Shin Francisco, etc.
The P.&O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal,
The P... Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape...
ensure against the concealment of con- traband on board.
Ingenious Methods
The New Zealand ripping Company's steamers for Southampton and in which the optors was contrived to
London via Punanis Cusal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
*BELTANA SHIRALA KASHGAR
TALMA
TANDA
RAWALPINDI
*LAHORE
*ALIPORE
KHYBER
MALWA
TILAWA RAJPUTANA *JEYPORE
25th Oet. 7,841 26th Oct. 0,005 26th Oct. 10,000 29th Oct. 6,954 6th Nov. 10,019 9th
Nov. 5,304
111k
Nov 5,278
12th Nov 47th Nov. 9,124 21st Nov. 10,980 23rd Nov. 10,000 26th Nov. 16,508 7th Dec. 3169th Dec.
- Cargo only,
Shanghai, Hoji, Kobe & Tokokams, Amoy, 9'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Maj, Kobe, Daaka & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Mall, Kobe & Yekohama. Moji & Kobe. Moji Kobe Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohams Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama Amoy, Moll, Kobu & Osaka, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Mojl, 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 exyenas at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer,
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers en London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. 2. ft. x 1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.
For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, sto, apply to:
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & 0. Building, Connaught Bd. C., Hong Kong.
Agents.
HONG KONG AND MAÇÃO LINE
in Good Speed
CHUEN CHOW
Daily Saling from Hong Kong
2.00 p.m.
from Macro at 7.50 mm.
Bunday
from the bituminous coal smalls used the wharves delivery may be obtained. Further, the average yield per ton The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from is about 3,900 cub. ft. of very rich
No claims will be admitted after the (800 B.Th.U. per cub. 1), Goods have left the Godowns, and all gals, of crude light oil, 80-33 gals, of Goods remaining, undelivered after the tar, and 144 cwt (72 per cent.) of solid smoketeas fuel with 12 per cent. volatile matter.
gas
that will be subject to rent. All claims against the steamer must presented to the Undersigned on or before the 8th November, 1929, or
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the Act under which proceedings were they will not be recognised, taken could only involve a person who by deliberate act or
All broken, chafed, and damaged connivance had Goods are to be left in the Godowan contributed to the offence and there where they will be examined on was nothing to show that the appellant 24th inst, at 10 am. by Messrs. was so involved.
Goddard & Douglas.
The ingenious and elaborate manner be concealed in this Instance in differ ent parts of the vessel without being
After referring to the fact that the observed by some responsible officers of vessel was rummaged in Singapore and
No Fire Insurance has been effect the ship makes it clear that all pre- Penang the Board said it should not
ed cautions which a master is rightly ex-bo inferred, that the duty of search
Bills of Lading will be counteraign pected to take were not takers.
ed by, exhausted the obligations, that lie upon "It is the neglect of this duty which master before he can certify that in my opinion facilitated the smuggling the manifest is correct to the best of of the opium,and for which I hold his knowledge. the master responsible unless the per- son or persons immediately concerned are exposed.
Effective Watch
The Collector of Customs rightly point- ed out that in the case of vessels likely to be used by smugglers the Master should also have an effective› watch
There were several grounds of an peal that the opium was concealed in an ingenious and elaborate manner and maintained to prevent the shipment of could only have been the work of ex- contraband and perienced smugglers; that there are over the
adequate supervision only two officers employed on the "Hong board."
movements of the crew on Kheng and it is not possible to have incomplete. It has not been establish
The enquiry on this point is more than one officer on daty at ard that no watch or supervision wa time; that it is obviously impossible for kept or that such watch or supervisión the officer whose duty it is to supervise as may have been kept was inade loading and discharging of cargo to quate, in keep watch on every part of the ship: that the steamer carries at times as shows that the best of watches can The experience of Customs officers many as 8,000 passengers andd it was often be evaded by determined amug quite possible that some of them glers. brought contraband into the ship with their luggage and concealed it In the there was a deficiency in this respect The Collector merely infers that poly for sale of opium, employs falled to observe the concealment of ship during the voyage; that the mono from the, fact, that responsible officers special searchers to search vessels the contraband, part of which was leaving for, Rangoon; that if it was concealed in the celling of the pantry possible for smugglers to evade those and part in the tunnel airshaft, searchers it would be manifestly un- just to hold the master responsible ference is justiRed. It follows that it The Board cannot agree that this in- for negligence because he failed to dels hot proved that the Master falled tect the opium.num
to take measures that were sufficient No Evidence to justify his making the declaration The Board held that the clause of in the manifest. "
AUSTRALIAN - ORIENTAL LINE, LTD.
“CHANGTE"
TAIPING
These New Vessels, Maintain Regular Service from
HONG KONG TO: AUSTRALIAN PORTS
via MANILA 20 THURSDAY ISLAND
Through Bill of Lading farded to all Australian, New Zealand
and Tasinaninar Forte vi bur Excellent and Most Up-to-Date, First and Second Class Passenger
Accommodatiomaliza de HONG KONG TO SYDNEY-19 DAYS,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 17th October, 1929.
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THE
SERVICE
BARBER WILHELMSEN
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TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST, SERVICE
Tia PANAMA. NEXT SAILING
M.V." TAI PING"
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for SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, : NEW YORK & BOSTON
42 Days To New York.
For Fassenger and Freight Information please apply:-
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Queen's Buildings.
Agents.
Telephone C 1030.
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 own two Slipways and cas accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Town Office: 64. Coraught Road Central, Hong Kong. Tel Centrai No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kowloon No. 1. Estimates furnished on application.
Repz Kong. April 1, 1924.
EASTERN PORTS
DETAILS OF HEALTH
-BULLETIN
The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended October 12, Isaded by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, gives the fol lowing cases:
Plague Alexandria: 3 cases, i death. Bagdad: 1 case,
Rangoon: 2 deaths.
Colombo: 1 case.
Saigon: 1 case, 1 death.
Cholera
Calcutta: 15 deaths. Tuticorin: 6 cases, 5 deaths. Pnom-Penh: 16 cases, 11 deaths. Swatow: & deaths.'
Small-pox
Berbera: 1 case. Alexandria: I case, Bombay: 5 cases, 3 deaths. Calcutta: 2 cases, 2 deaths. Cochin: cases.
Madras: 12 cases, 1 death. Moulmein: 1 case, 1 death. Rangoon: case. Batavia: 2 cakes. Samarinda: 6 cases, 1 death.
According to Calgary the manager of the Prince a casage from of Wales's Canadian ranch denies
a report emanating from London, that operations were to commence with prospects of finding valuable allfekta. In any event mineral rights were reserved by the Federal Government on all Crown lands leased or sold in the Province of Alberta.
HONG KONG TIDE
The tide-table given below SĀJUM been obtained by aid of the teipre dicting Machine, which includes 40 components for the better prediction af tides, from the readit of the analysis of the tidal observations, taken at the Kowloon tidad; observa- lory under the direction of Dr. Doberck during the years 1887, 1889 and 1889.
The tlates and heights are given for Kowloon; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen, the differences being very ата!!.
The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct.
DATE
October 19 to 25, 1929.
October
HIGH WATEE LOWER WATER.
Standard
Times
Ht. Standard
Bt
Times
Fat 19m 9 50 47 m 3 S6 20 2107.4 3 49 2.7 San. 70 m 10 38 6.94 15 16 1087.74 28 | 21
Mom. 211 37 6.8 m 6 11 1.4
10 39 7.3 446 3.0 Tacs. 120 54, 56414 El 18' 8.0 6 33.9 Wed. 232 286 1.7 m 7 6 1.8
67.8m 821 1.7 Noinferior H. nor Low W 25 m 187:59 14 18 Noinferior Hmor Low W.
Thurs 34 0 Fri.
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