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¿EDUCED THROUGH VICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolula,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
THE CHINA MAIL.
Wear Shipping
TWO NEW ARRIVALS. LINERS FOR
CHICHIBU MARU SHINYO MARU
YOKOHAMA MARU
Thursday, 31st July.. Wednesday, 13th August SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
5th August.
Tuesday,
CAPE COMERIN AND ROYAL- STAR VISIT PORT.
Singapore. Penang, Colombo, Suez.
HARUNA MARU
Saturday,
9th August.
KAMO MARU
Tuesday,
19th August.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KITANO MARU
Tuesday,
ATSUTA MARU
Tuesday,
19th August. 23th September.
TAMBA MARU
PENANG MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
Two new steamers to this port figured in the Harbour Ofice re- turns for the week-end
Monday, 11th August. Thursday, 28th August. SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angelca, is owned by the Lyle Shipping
Mexico & Panama.
GINYO MARU
Wednesday, 27th, August
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porte,
BINGO MARU
NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panama.
Wednesday, 6th August.
LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Stamboul, (Constantinople). Genoa.
† ATAGO MARU
Tuesday,
6th August
† DELAGOA MARU
Blonday,
11th August.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
BENGAL MARU
Friday,
15th August.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
4th August.
MITO MARU
KASHIMA MARU
Thursday. Saturday,
7th August.
9th August..
+ MALACCA MARU (Moji direct) Monday,
+ Cargo only.
For further information apply to:--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
Telephone 30291.
(Private 'rechange to all departments b
0. S.
K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG 8BJECT TO ALTERATIO""
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore
Calambo, Sues and Port Sald.
ATLAS MARU-
Monday, 11th August.'
BIO DE JANEIRO. SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapo
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
LA PLATA MARU BUENOS AIRES MARU OMDAY-Via Singapore & Columbe.
SHUNKO MARU HONOLULU MARU DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES,
BAR & HUMBABA-VIa
CANADA MARU MEXICO MARU
HIMALAYA MARU
CELEBES MARU
Friday, 29th August.
Friday, 3rd October.
Sunday, 3rd August.
Tuesday, 10th August. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM ZANZI Slugapore Colombu.
Wednesday, 6th August. Friday, 28th September.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & angeon.
Friday, 1st August,
Monday, 18th August.
VICTORIA, BEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER—Via Japan Ports from
Shanghai.
ARIZONA MARU (from S'hal)... Sunday, 17th August.
MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
#!PHONGVin Holbox & thi khỏi
*EW YORK-Vin Japan ports & Panama.
FAN PORTS.
KOHSO MAKU
› CKLUNG-Yla Swataw & Amoj.
TAKAO-V↳ Swatow & Amoy.
JAKAO & KEELING
BATAVIA MARU
Tuesday, 29th July.
Sunday, 10th August.
bor further paricular, please apply to--OSAKA SHOSEN & AISHA.
Tel. 28067
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
The frat is the Cape Comerin which is under. the command of Capt. McGlashan with a crew of 39 British. The vessel la 5,148 tons (gross) and 3207 tons (net), and Company. Messrs. Sander, Weller & Co. are the local agents.
The other vessel is the Royal Star which a owned by the Blue Star Shipping Company. She is under the command of Capt. Walsh and her crow
number 90-85 British and five other Europeans.
The vessel is 7,900 tons gross and 4,880 tona net: Messrs Dodwell & Co. are the local agents.
WATER LEVELS.
ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feat the water levels on the West River, North River and Esat River, on the dates named:
July 24 July 15
Shiuhing
Taingyuen
Samshul Sheklung
7.4
3.9
8.8
7.5
Sheklung minus 27 feet.
WARSHIPS IN PORT
The following British warships are in harbour to-day:-
Tamar Basin.
Seraph-North arm. Sepoy-In dock.
Sterling-In dock.
Foreign.
· ZEALAND.
Intelligence.
NEW
Great Improvement on Existing Ships.
SUEZ CANAL.
DIVIDEND INCREASED LAST YEAR.
The 76th annual meeting of the Suez Canal Company was held in Paria on June 3.
Rugby, July 8. The. Rangitiki, one of the three new 17,000-ton liners built The Marquis de Vogue (the for a New Zealand shipping com- president) submitted the direc pany, sailed from Tilbury this morning for New Zealand. The tors' report, and dealing with the vessel was visited yesterday by results for 1929, said: The tran- Prince George, who made a tour sit receipts, amounting to 1,116,- of the ship which, with its spaci-000,000 francs were 4 per cent. ous decks and handsomely equip-
ped special suites, represents a higher than in the previous year great advance on the type of ships (itself a record), and this in hitherto employed in the regular crease enables us to propose that service between London and New the gross dividend per capital Zealand by the way of the Panama share should be increased from Canal.
NEW DREDGE.
ARRIVES FROM GERMANY UNDER OWN POWER.
644,57 franes to 667.01 franes. In accordance with the traditional policy of your company, we have considered It our duty to let our shipowner clients benefit from this prosperity, their present: position offering a strong con. trast to our own. We have there. fore decided to make, as from Manila, July 16.
September 1 next, a reduction of The new public works dredge 25 centimes in the transit due on for the city of Manila arrived two loaded vessels, bringing this down days ago from Germany and is to 6.65 francs, while from the. at present berthed near the Anda same date the rate on vessels in monument. The dredge operates ballast, which up to the present on the same principle as the s.s. has always been 2.50 francs below Dredger. For the last 15 years the normal rate, will be fixed at the Dredger has heon the sole re-one-half of that rate. liance for keeping the fairways
Higher Receipts. and berths at Manila open to The total receipts for the year
traffic.
amounted to 1,189,958,441.03 The new dredge is larger, how-francs, exceeding by 22,846,363 over, and more powerful, which francs those for the previous year, will enable more rapid execution which, you will remember, bene- of the work.
fited from an exceptional receipt]
The highest levels on record are:
The contract for the new unitarising from the revaluation at -Sniuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 29.2 feet; Samshul. 27.3 feet; was awarded by the bureau of par of the sterling included among supply, as the result of competi- the assets at December 31, 1928. Sheklung 15.5 feet.
The lowest level on record attive bids, to Messrs. F. Schichau, The expenditure amounted to Samshui is minus 5 feet and at C. n. b. H. of Elbing, Germany, at 331,243,234.56 francs. As laat a price of P471,000, including year, we propose to set aside delivery at Manila. Formal exe 25,000,000 francs for amortisa- cution of the contract was ar- tion and renewal of material, and] ranged by the purchasing agent 25,000,000 francs to the special at New York. Through the cour-fund for the construction of tesy of the War Department, the houses in Egypt. On the other services of an officer, of the En- hand, the sum set aside for canal gineer Corps, U.S. Army, on duty improvement works, which was in Europe, were secured to super-100,000,000 francs last year, can vise inspection at the ship yards. be reduced without inconvenience The vessel left Ebing, Germany to 80,000,000 francs. After pro- on May 10, manned by a German|viding for these amounts and add- crew, and made the. 11,000 mile ing the balance brought forward voyage under its own power, from 1928, there is an available The contract calls for a sea-sum of 742,740,227.89 francs, of going, self-propelled suction which the proposed dividend will hopper dredge, operating on the absorb 737,478,209.86 francs. "Fruehling System" and having the following principal features:
Length:-57.9 metres. Breadth:-10.82 metres. Depth: 4.70 metres.
Mean draft: 4.00 (approx.) Mean Speed: - 10 knots, loaded.
Hopper Capacity:-600 cubic metres.
Maximum dredging-depth:- 15 metres.
Classification-Lloyds A 4 K (Dredger).
Adamastor-Portuguese cruiser. Vigliante-French gunboat. Alerte-French gunboat. Tahure-French gunboat. Helena-U.S. gunboat.
like Japan has, for the training of pilots and ships' officers.
Before the Mast.
"I know quite a number of The young men who are now sailing GRAVE PROBLEM FOR BRITISH square-rigged qualification is, of before the mast in Russian,
SHIPPING.
MONDAY, JULY 28, 1930.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC
14 DAYS FROM CHINA AND 9 DAYS FROM JAPAN TO CANADA AND USA. Hongkong Shanghai Koba Yokohama Yaptiver
LEATS LOG.T
LAY!, LIAVA ATTIT
Empress of Japan Aug. 7 Aug. 10 Aug. 12 Aug. 11 Aug. 22 Empress of Ash Aug. 20 Aug. 23 Aug. 26 Aug. 28 Sept. 6 Empress of Canada Sept. & Sept. 7 Sept. 9 Sept. 1 Sept. 19 Empress of Russla Sept. 17 Bept. 20 Sept. 23 Sept. 25 Oct. Empress of Japan Oct. 2 Oct Oci, 7 Oct. 9 Oct. 17 Empress of Asla Oct. 15 Oct. 18 Ucl. 21 Oct. 23 Nov. 1 Empress of Canada Oct. 30 Nov. 2 Nov. 4 Nov, Nov. 14 Empress of Russia Nov. 12 Nov. 15, Nor. 18 Nov. 20 Nov. 29 Empress of Japan Nov. 27 Nov. 30 Dec. 2 Dec. Dec. 12 Empress of Azia" Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 18 Dec. 18 Dec. Empress of Canada Dec. 25 Dec. 28 Dec. 30 Jan. 1 Jan. 9 Empress of Rusala Jan. 7 Jan 19 Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Jan. 24 Empress of Japan Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 3 Feb. 5 Feb. 13 Empress of Asia Feb. 25 Feb. 28 Blar. 3 Mar. 6. Mar. 14 *(Call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai)
SPECIAL ROUND-TRIP SUMMER FARES. From Hong Kong to Nagasaki & Return .G$ 82.50
14
» Kobe
Tlekets on sale to September 15,' Anal return Umit October 31,
.G$105.00
Yokohama
.G$117.50
Telephones: Passenger 20752 Freight,.20042
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Total
JULY-AUGUST SAILINGS.
DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 1.30 p.m." 8.S. TAI HING"
[1,068 tona-Capt. Trott.)
WED 30th
AUGUST.
MON. 4th SUN.
10th
FRI. 15th
.
JULY.
WED. 20th
TUES, 26th
98. "TAI MING" [649 tons Capt. G. J. Spink.] AUGUST.
FRI.
$20.00
WED
ist 6th
16.40
TUES. 12th
2.00
.838.40
is excellent and the accommodation comfortable; once you try you will re commend it to others.
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For information apply to-
KWONG WING
29. Connaught Road. West, Phone 20893.
Ltd.,
"JAPAN" BAND.
LEAVING MANILA FOR CANADA NEXT WEEK.
The total weight of goods car- Record Canal Traffic. ried through the canal was The traffic through the canal in 34,516,000 tons, exceeding by 1929 showed by comparison with 1,894,000 tons the maximum re- that for 1928 (which broke all corded for 1928. previous records), an increase of The progress noted in 1929 has 1,560,112 tons net-namely, 4.9 not been maintained during the The number of transits was 6,274, tonnage has fallen considerably per cent to 33,466,014 tons. present year. Since March the against 6,084 in 1928. The aver- below the figures recorded last ships, Ltd, have received age size of vessels has slightly in-year; at the end of April the dif- gram from its Manila office creased to 7,876 tons gross, and ference was 407,351 tons, and un garding the band which has been the proportion of transits made by fortunately it is possible that this engaged for the new luxury liner vessels of more than 10,000 tons will increase from now until the Empress of Japan. ***gross increased from 11 to 117 end of the year.
This states that the band is
-- 100
The
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Steam-
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NO SAILS- NO PILOTS Many of the older pilots still serving were previously in com- mand of sailing ships.
course, no longer attainable so Swedish and Danish barques in far as British ships are concern order to gain their 'square rigged' The disappearance of the Bri-ed. Our last windjammer of all experience. It is essential that tish windjammer from the seven
the Garthpool-was wrecked a pilots in particular should have Beas has created a problem of year or so ago.
this experience, as the safe the first magnitude for pilotage
Captain Harry Davis, the pre-handling of large vessels in nar-multitubular Marine type boilers, vessels in the canal was 14 hours the appointment of Sir Thomas on August 2 for Hong Kong, and The vessel is fitted with two per cent. The average stay of The report was adopted, and salling by the President McKinley authorities throughout the United sent Ruler of Pilots at Gravesend, row waters depends on expert which supply steam at 142 pounds 57 minutes, which was the lowest Royden to the board was confirm that it has successfully broad- Kingdom.
said to a Daily Express repre-
seamanship. sentative that the only ships left only be gained under sail, Unless four compound engines of 250
"Proficiency in this respect cansion and dredging.
working pressure for both propul- figure yet recorded, in which Great Britain's future the Government either builds or horse power each, two of which pilots can learn their profession buys one or two sailing ships for are direct connected to the twin thoroughly are those owned by this purpose, it will not be long propellers, while the other two foreigners.
"It seeme incredible," said Cap- available for the pilotage services pellers when not needed to drive until there are no eligible recruits may also be coupled to the pro- tala Davis, "that Britain, the at all. greatest maritime nation in the
the dredging pumps - world, has no State sailing ships,fessional one.
"The danger is not merely a pro-
It is national,"
It has hitherto been a rigid rule with the London Trinity House and other principal services, such as the Clyde, Mersey, Bristol Channel, Tyne, Humber, and Firth of Forth, that no one could qualify for a pilot's licence unless he held a "square rigged" master mariner's certificate,
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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS HONG KONG CHINA & JAPAN.
There are
The latter are arranged on the "Fruehling" system, which com prises a trailing suction head, through which mud, sand, etc., are drawn up by two powerful centri-
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fugal pumps and deposited in the ELLERMAN hoppers, whence the spoil may be discharged through doors in the bottom of the vessel, or drawn out: by the main dredging pumps and discharged through a pipe line at
a distance, for filling purposes, Working in the soft mud of the fairways at Manila; the pumpa are capable of filling the hoppers in from 30 to 45 minutes..
Since the new dredge operates on the same principle and is very similar to the B.B. Dredger. the shipbuilders crew will be imme- diately relieved by a full comple ment of Bureau of Public Works officers and men, as soon as the formalities of actual transfer can be effected.
The contract provided for all necessary trial runs and dredging tests at the shipyards, and after a brief stay on the shipways for Fexamination, following the long run from Germany, the dredge will be immediately pat in service, dredging the fairways and berths to 85 feet at low tidens With the 8.8. Dredger also available, the harbour and Pasig River can be Improved and maintained in thoroughly satisfactory condition.
Manila Bulletin.
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& BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE. UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT
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NEW YORK, BOSTON, & BALTIMORE
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... 9th August.
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11th August,
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3rd August.
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4th August.
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