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P. & O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
..
PEPYS AT THE
ADMIRALTY.
Royal Gifts to the Maritime Museum.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
There
FIRST LORD.
Charming Sequel to Paris Tour.
news-
A charming story about the First Lord of the Admiralty and a French sailor petit-marin Francais-is
Parls. According to this related by the Echo de Paria at paper, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander visited Paris and their incognito was so well maintained that.even the British Embassy was not aware of their proente.
status which would alrendy bear FRENCH SAILOR AND comparison with those of long- established institutions. First in order of time came the Anderson collection. Among the manuscripts on the naval history of the 'seven- teenth century collected by Mr. Anderson stood. out pre-eminetly
The annual meeting
of the So- the manuscript collection of Charles Navy soclety for Neutical Research was Sergison, who joined the held at the Royal Naval College, Board two years after Pepys left it and subsequently filled the position Greenwich, last month.
Admiral Sir George Hope, who of Clerk of the Acts and held it for presided, referred to
The importance of this the -fact 30 years.. that 350 gifts had been presented could be gauged from the fact that National it included the minutes of the Navy during the year to the Maritime Museum. At the head Board from 1673 to 1718. of this list stood gift from the were 76 volumes of these minutes, King-a Royal barge built, accord-richly bound in contemporary-calf, ing to tradition, by William III, for and they put into their hands the Queen Mary I. This Shallop, to key to 50 years of naval administra
tion. There was also the gift of employ its original name, was pro- bably the only boat of its kind in private lettere written by Earl St. the world to-day which was over 200 Vincent, between 1797 and
A series of gifts had They were addreased in strict con he was staying. It was admitted! years old.
miralty, Sir Evan Nerican, who
gave instructions for inquiries to must have been not a little embar- this information, and the Minister rassed by the character of their be made at all the principal hotels. contents for St. Vincent had "a But Mr. and Mrs. Alexander were very high opinion of Nepean's dignot staying at any of them, and the cretion, tact, and integrity, and in Minister appealed to the Prefect of these letters treated him as a sort Police to assist him. It was then quickly discovered that the visitors were at a modest hotel, and that
tourist might. capital as any they were exploring the French
1802.
In some roundabout way, how- ever, news of this vlait came to the ears of M. Dumont, Minister of. Marine.. Anxious to pay his res pects to the First Lord, M. Dument asked the British Embassy where
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF. also been presented to the Museumfidence to the Secretary of the Ad- that it was not possible to supply
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.)
8.S.
Tons
From Hong Kong About
1931.
5,300 10 Sept. 0,800 19th Sept
Destination.
Bombay.
CATHAY
GARBETA T4SOUDAN
KALYAN
| 15,000 12th Sept.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Noon
Straits, Colombo
*MIRZAPORE MANTUA
+KASHMIR
by the Queen, who had sent a num- ber of Nelson relics, collected by herself. Her Majesty's know- a very ledge of antiques had in signal fashion enriched the na- tional collection of Nelson relics, and he hoped that when the Queen's House, which we to be the puclens was converted to of the Museum, Its new purpose, the Queen might be the first visitor. Six large pic
of Father Confessor,
The Keith Papers. The Keith
Papers covered the entire period of that great Ad- came commander in 1772 until his retirement from active service in 1816. The 175 bound volumes con- stituted but a fragment of this re-
To
Minister arrived at their hotel one morning, and they were begged to. make use of this during their stay,
They gladly accepted the offer,
tures which the trustees had just miral's career from the time he be their surprise a motor-car for the received constituted one of the most remarkable pictorial records of any battle ever fought at sea. They were oil paintings on canvas of the battle of the Texel, fought in markable collection, and he would and soon became the firm friends | leave them to guess what secrets might be hid in papera which re-incident has had a sequel" in the of the driver, a French sailer. This quired two larries to bring them to sailor-driver's recent application Greenwich They were the papers for eight days' leave. On being of an Admiral who commanded in asked the the Downs when Napoleon had his quest, he explained that he had camp at Boulogne: an Admiral so been invited by the First Lord of
trusted by those he
the Admiralty to spend a holiday as implicitly served as to enjoy in the narrow his guest in Britain.
third and final Dutch war,
One
August. 1673. the last battle of the was by Isaac Sailmaker and the other five by Van de Velde the
Elder.
The latter artist was pre-
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, sented at the ongagement and made an elaborate series of sketches, and for the Queen's House followed the lines of the drawings with great fidelity.
Bombay.
Rotterdam & Antwerp. 9,000 28th Sept. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant- werp & Hull. Oth Oct. 1 Straits, Colombo 6,700 11,000 10th Oct. Marseilles & London.
9,000 24th Oct. M'scilles, L'don, 'dam & A'werp. 6,500 31st Oct. Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,
BURDWAN
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
NALDERA
16,000
+KASHGAR
7th 0,001 21st
Nov.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Nov.
RAJPUTANA
17,000 5th
Dec.
M'seilles, Ldon, R'dam & A'werp. Marseilles & London.
CORFU
| 15,000
19th
Doc.
Marseilles & London.
*ISOMALI
6,800 26th
Dec.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
Cargo only. +Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti. Calls Bangkok. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- atantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
the canvases acquired
books.
plenary
seas something of the powers of a maritime dictator.
reason
for this re-
WATER LEVELS.
Details for West, North and East Rivers.
The Secret Lettera
The famous collection of navel The chairman went on to describe Pepys relics from the collection of prints left by Sir Charles Cust to the late Mr. Pepys Cockerell which the Sea Lords of the Admiralty had been made over by them on loan to they had envied for their naval
There had' had the Museum trustees. associations and. which
Beat of not been time as yet to explore its gravitated to Greenwich. all was a stout volume, rebound in treasures, but a preliminary survey. the early eighteenth century and of the card-index showed that, in containing three mysterious letter- addition to original drawings and
The following table, issued by Pepys kept copies of water-colours, there were many en- ordinary routine letters in an gravings not contained in the Mac- the "Kwangtung River Conservancy The Wyllie Commission, shows in feet the ordinary book in the ordinary way. pherson collection.
the West River, But the contents of this volume collection had also been secured for water levels on
He wondered how North River and East River were not concerned with routine. the Museum. They were highly confidential, and many realized what a marvellous re- the dates named:-
-Supt. Sept
5 6 were kept most strictly under lock cord Wyllie left behind of the great
18.3 West River at Shiuhing 17.8 and key. Forty-seven letters, wholly change om sail to steam in the
16.2 or in part, were written in the same Navy and Merchant Service, and of North River at Samahul. 14.2
12.0 shorthand as the diary and had types of small craft bridging 60 North River at Tsingyuen 11.2 6.2 of the East River at Sheklung. After the manner Of the years. never been deciphered.
"The highest levels recorded other letters in ordinary longhand, elder Van de Velde he went to sea nearly 1,000 in number, 218 were in nearly every type of ship and are: Shiuhing, 41 feat; Taing- B.L. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for lat edited by Dr. J. R. Tanner Three- drew whatever took his fancy and Yuen, 29.2 feet; Samshul, 27.3
on The lowest levels record quarters of the contents of this seemed to him worthy of pictorial feet; Sheklung, 11.5 feet. and 2nd class passengers.
massive volume had yet to be given-treatment.
are minus 5 feet at Samahul and minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.
*TALMA
TAKADA
SIRDHANA
TILAWA
1981.. 10,000 8th Sept
3 p.m. 7,000 23rd Sept. 8,000 4th. Oct. 10,000 14th Oct.
• Calls Port Swettenham.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Calls Kangoon,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). privilege to announce
NANKIN NELLORE TANDA
1031 7,000 2nd Ock. 7,000 31st Oct. 7,000 2nd Dec.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney
& Melbourne.
+
од
The Great War broke to the public. He considered it a out, and he received facilities like that they those granted in the seventeenth would never now be published, ex-century to the Van de Veldes-He cept under the auspices of the Na- went where he would and sketched hardly a ship of note, hardly
what he liked. tional Maritime Museum.
All these drawings naval occasion between 1870 and There had been a splendid re- were sent
to the Admiralty and 1980 which was not represented in Those the appeal for manu were released when peace was de- this wonderful collection. aponse to scripts which he made last year, and clared. He had at the time of yet unborn, who were as far remov as they were from he was able to announce three fur- his death 3,000 of these sketches, ed from them ther donations which between them without taking into account the the Van de Veldes, would bless the of Manu- shelf-loads of drawing books filled prescience that kept this collection
В new museum to from cover to cover. There was together and gave it to the nation.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan raised the Department and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. 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 Sued The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London vis Panama Canal
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN." Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
BIRDHANA MANTUA *BURDWAN KASHMIR TILAWA
NELLORE SANTHIA NALDERA
KASHGAR
TALMA
TANDA
1 1981.
8,000 11th Sept. | Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 11,000 11th Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
6,500 12th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 9,000 26th Sept. 10,000 25th Sept.
7,000 5th 8,000 Oth Oct 10,000 10th Oct.
0,000 17th
Oct, 10,000 23rd Oct
MACEDONIA 11,000
FAKADA
RAJPUTANA
BIRDHANA
CORFU TILAWA
RAWALPINDI -
NANKIN KARMALA
Amoy, Holl, Kobe & Oaka.
24th Oct. Shanghal,, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
7,000 5th Nov. S'hal, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka'&. Y'hama.
scripts in their
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DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS. IRON, STEEL, AND
FORGE MASTERS. WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
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On Lloyds
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Otaka.
Oct.
S'hal Hoji, Kobe, Osaka & T'hamn.
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
list of
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai Holi, Kobe & Yokohama.
approved
Cast
Steel
Manufac
Shaughti, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Thoma. Shanghai, Muji, Kobe & Yokohama.
turera.
7,000 3th Nov. | Moji, Kobe & Osaka
.17,000
7th Nov, Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama, 8,000 20th Nov.) Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. 15,000
Nov.
21at
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. | 10,000 4th Dec. Moji, Kobe & Osaka
17.000
5th
Dop. ..7,000 7th Dec. 9,000 19th Dec.
* Cargo only,
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1931.
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BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING DATES FOR SEPT, 1931 (Sabject to Change)... DEPARTURE HOURS:Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 3 pm.
Steamer.
Leaves Hong Kong
TAI HING WED. TAI MING FIL TAI HING TUBS: TAI MING THURS. TAI HING MON. TAI MING WED. TAI HING SUN. TAI MING TUES.
9th FRI 11th SUN.
Arrives Wuchow
Leaves
Wachow
Arrives Hong Kong
11th SAT. 13th MON.
1215 SUN.
13th
14th TUES,
15th
18th BAT.
19th
20% MON
21st
23rd THURS.
24th FRI.
25th
25th SAT.
26th BUN.
V-27th
27th TUES.
29th THURS.
29th WED. 1st FRL
JO ĮTHURS.lat
Zad ¡BAT.
3rd
196 BUN.
15th THURS. 17th FRI 17th SAT. 21st WED. 23rd FRI.
Regulur Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers having good Accommodation for Firat Clasa Passengers. Ecetric Light and Fans in State-rooms, and Saloon The s.s. "Tal Hing" is fit- ted with Wireless.
Ports of Call-Bamahal, Shulbing, Takhing & Doshing.
Fares Return (not including meals) 29.CC.
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Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tai Hing Wharf
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