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P. & O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES încorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
BTRAITS, 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 FORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.).
8.S.
Tonk
*IPERIM
From Hong Kong About
1981.
→
7,700 20th July
1st Aug. +KHYBER
0.000 *KIDDERPORE 5,300 Eth Aug. *ISOMALI
6,800- 8th Aug.
RAJPUTANA 17,000 15th Aug. **PADUA
8,000 22nd Aug.
TKARMALA
9,000 29th Aug.
*ALIPORE CATHAY **SOUDAN
*KALYAN
1
Destination.
Marselfies, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam & Antwerp, M'sellies, L'don, R'dam & A'werp Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, Gibraltar, Hayre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsellles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London. Rotterdam, Ant
werp & Hull.
5,3002nd Sept.--Straits, Colombo & Bombay,
15,000 12 Sept. 5,800-19th Sept.
0.000 26th Sept.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-
werp & Hull.
Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. Calla Djibouti. Calls Karachi & Port Swettenham..
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Gou stantinople, Pireaus. Smyrna and other Levant. Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co..
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1931. *SIRDHANA- 8,000 28th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
3 p.m. *TILAWA
10,000 8th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. SANTHIA
8,000 23rd Aug.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutts.
Calla Port Swettenham.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for lat and 2nd class passengers.
THE CHINA MAIL.
LONG VOYAGES IN SAFETY OF LIFE AT
BALLAST.
Britain to Australia /
Empty.
Ballast
are
SEA.
N.Y.K. Demonstration at 'Frisco,
voyages, unfortunately, fare now very common (says
Home paper). There
the steamers which are making the long voyage from this country to Australia empty, and other vessels for which coal cargoes to Port Said were secured have proceeded thence to Australia In ballast, a passage of about 7,500 miles. There has been some 'comment' in seaa
FLEMING LIFE-BOAT,
RUINOUS FREIGHT
WAR.
Shipping Companies Cut Each Other's Throats.
The shipping trade in threatened by the collapse of freight confer- ences, saya the Japan Chronicle. With over ten million tons out of service, shipping companies find it Com- Japan Overseas Travel Magazine difficult to obtain cargoca. gives the following interesting ac-petition between conference com count of a Fleming lifeboat launch-panics and outsiders is growing. keener and keener, resulting in ing in San Francisco harbour:
The safety of travel-on-the-high ruptures of conferences and in
to-day is marked by the ruinous freight rates.
The New York-Far East Confer
elimination of the human hazard.
In the modern age, a mechanical ence, for instance, has lost the substitute for, almost every task of greater, part of Its raison d'etre, the seaman gives the assurance of with many cargoes now charged at open rates. All cargoes, except efficient performance,
has also
the freight markets this week on a steamer which recently proceeded from South Wales to Port Said with coal and is now to return along the Mediterranean (a distance of about 1,000 miles), and then is to No better illustration of the co-dyestuffs, tobacco and a few minor steam across the Atlantic, through efficient of safety in present-day items, shipped from the United the Panama Canal, and down the ocean transportation could be given States, are now open. The Pacific Pacific coast to Chile to load than recently, when United States West Bound Conference
been obliged to make, wheat, lum-! nitrate, making a total steaming Government officials conducted др distance in ballast of more than inspection of the lateat life-saving ber and other cargoes open, and 8,000 miles. The outward freight unit of the new motor liner Tatguta these rates to-day are one half or
one third of a year ago. to Port Said was 8. a ton, from Maru in San Francisco harbour,
The European Out Bound Confer- which has to be deducted loading Chief Officer S. Itabe blew his expenses and port dues and dis-whistle and the ten-man crew step-ence is also on the verge of rup- A similar trouble, and the worst charging costs at Port Said, while ped lightly into their place, while a the homeward freight le 20s. 9d., petty officer took command at the with extra rates for discharge at rudder astorn. Another blast and of all, is seen in the South Seas ser- Mediterranean or Adriatic, port the noiseless electric winches slip-vice, where the Ishihahara Sangyo or Alexandria. Another vessel is ped the boat over the newly im- and the Conference of the N.TK, to make the long voyage from proved davits that feature the the O.S.K. and the Java China line
are in ruinous competition. Europe--to-Chile-empty in-order-to Tatsuta-Maru's- equipment; and load a cargo of nitrate there. Yet swiftly down the ship's side to the another type of ballast voyage has water's edge. It was a splendid been that of steamers which have demonstration of manning proceeded to Port Said with coal, boat and "Putting her down" with have then steamed empty to Dur- out a hitch. ban, a distance of about 4,400 miles, and have returned to Perim
The present genera-
with coal.
་
life-
The shouted command from the coxswain and each sailor took his place at an upright handle that
tion of shipping managers has to looked exactly like the "Joystick try to adapt itself to conditions that guides an aeroplane. Timed quite different from those existing with the count of the coxswain, of their predecessore, the portside and starboard crew of in the time who built up British cargo shipping the sturdy craft bent their backs in on the strength of outward cargoes alternate unison. There was of coal and homeward cargoes of churning of water aft as the boat grain and other commodities In bulk.
A report on private radio licences in Canada, issued by the Depart ment of Marine, shows nearly 100,000 more licences were given for the year 1930-31 than in the previous year. A grand total of 523,100 radio receiving licences were issued by the department dux- ing the past 12 months. There were 424,146 receiving licences issued during the year 1929-1930,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS,
· LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA, The Steamship,
BENARTY"
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). Consignees of cargo are hereby in
1031
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7.000
2nd Sept. 7,000 7,000 2nd Oct.
1st Aug
from
#
got under way and with a swinging of the rudder, sped away from the ship and pier..
ture.
The only lines where rates are maintained and in which Japan is interested-are the Bombay, line, the Calcutta line and the Tsingtao
line.
HELMS ORDERS.
Reasons for the Change Proposed.
Replying to a question in the House of Commons of Rear- Admiral Beamish, Mr. W. Graham, the-President of the Board of Trade, slates:-
"The proposal for a uniform international system of helm orders It was a remarkable demonstra- tion of the new Fleming Life-Boat Conference on Safety
was discussed at the International of Life at Propelling Gear, with which the Sea held in 1913-14, and the Con- new motorship Asama Maru, Chi ference recommended that in view! chibu Maru and Tatsuta Maru of of the diversity of practice and the California-Orient service has a opinion In the different countries pair of these improved safety units, the question of adoption of a uni- accommodating sixty-two persons, and the other seven ships of recent form system of helm orders should be considered at the same time as construction have similarly equip
péd life-boats.
How It Works.
AB
the revision of the Regulations for preventing collisions at sea. proposals for the amendment of the Collision, Regulations were to be considered at the 1923 Conference, it was inevitable that the subject
A brief technical description of the patent Fleming Gear explains that the ten vertical levers, five on each aide, are connected to a fore of helm orders should be discussed; and aft shaft, which in turn is and definite notice to raise the mat- connected at the after end of the ter was given before the Conference boat to the crank discs. These are assembled by Denmark, Finland, fitted to a thwartship shaft under The Netherlands, Norway, and the stern sheets, and another fóre Sweden." and aft, or tail sha., with a four-
highly improved life-saving units, but many new ships, now under construction, are being equipped
blade propeller is geared to the cross rod. The coxswain handles the entire craft from the stern. with the rudderstick at hand, and a with them. control clutch which can reverse the
formed that all goods are being land- ed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and
Godown Co., Ltd, whence be obtained gears at will, for astern movement. ping oar and rowing in heavy seas
The old disadvantages of ship-||| A Melbourne.
the wharves delivery may be
No claims will be admitted after the
Captain John K. Bulger, super is now removed, for anyone can Goods-have-left-the-Godowns,-and-all-vising inspector of the United operate the Fleming lever, and a Goods remaining andelivered after the
States Steamboat Inspection Ser- speed of five to six knots per hour All claims against the steamer must
vice on the Pacific Coast, with can be acquired with a ten-man be presented to the Underrigued: on or | Captain Charles Austin, and Mr. crew and a load of fifty-two passen- before the 10th August, or they Rorquist, inspectors at San Fran- gera aboard. Even a two-man crew will not be recognised.
All broken, chated, and damaged cisco, voiced their approval of the has got the boat under way swiftly, Goods are to be left in the Godowns, demonstration the Tatauta with a 42-passenger list aboard in where they will be examined on the Maru. Captain Shunji Ito explain recent tests, an important factor 25th inst. at 10 a.m., by Messrs.ed the invention to Captan Bulger, when launching a life-boat. The | Goddard & Douglas:
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan 27th inst. will be subject to rent. and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez,
•
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
SANTHIA KARMALA
TANDA
*SOUDAN CATHAY TTALMA
*NANKIN
TAKADA KALYAN
19T. ALBANS
1981.
:
ed.
8,000 31st July 'Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. 9,000 31st July
2,000
6,800
16,000
7th
Aug.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y’'hama. 8th Aug. Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama. 14th Aug
Bhanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 14th Aug. Amoy, Moll, Kobe & Osaka.
7,000 27th Aug. Shanghai, Kabe & Yol-enama. 7,000 28th Aug. Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama..
29th Aug.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 31st Aug. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama,
0.000 4,500
Cargo only. + Calls Nagoya.
#Calling' Wei-hai-wei, Telngtau & Shanghal on return from Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. Passengers for Rangoon most defray their own Hotal expenses. at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punks Louvre System free of charge!...
Steamers on London and Australian Lines aro fitted with: Laundries, Parcels measuring not mose, than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to walling
on
No Fire Insurance has been effect- and Albert Porter,
editor of the levers can be stored down with a Shipping Register,, and other ship-ratchet attachment, and the simple Bills of Lading will be countersignping men who were present.
mechanical gear involved make it ad by
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha new available for. Installation in any GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD motorships are the only vessels on ordinary life-boat with minor
Agents, Hong Kong, 20th July, 1981. the Pacific equipped with these changes.
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