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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1932.
YK.LIN
NE
N.
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING
FROM £79 TO £120 ON SALE.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
TAIYO MARU
ASAMA MARU
HIKAWA MARU
Tuesday, Wednesday,
THE
CHINA MAIL.
BORES WHO
THE MARRIED
9th February. 24th February.
1st March.
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
HIYE MARU
Tuesday.. Tuesday,
29th March. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vis
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez. HAKUSAN MARU
Saturday,
20th February.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KITANO MARU
Baturday,
27th February.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
26th March.
MANILA.
ASAMA MARU
Thursday,
18th February.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
IYO MARU
Tuesday,
† TOTTORI MARU
Monday,
9th February, 29th February.
SOUTH
AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, BOKUYO MARU
Sunday,
14th February.
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama. LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), tienos
CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Perang & Rangoon.
& Marseilles.
↑ DELAGOA MAR'I
Wednesday,
17th February,
† MALACCA MARU
† AKITA MARU
Monday, Monday.
RANGĦAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA
+ LIMA MARU
Wednesday,
Saturday,
8th February. 15th February.
17th February. 10th February. 20th February.
ATSUTA MARU (Nagasak! direct). Friday, KASHIMA MARU
+ Cargo only.
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA,
Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departments.)
0.
K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Buenos Aires Maru
Thurs..
11th Feb.
& BUENOS AIRES via
Saigon, Singapore, Colom
ba, Durban & Capetown.
MOMBASA ZANZIBAR, Arizona Maru ......
Mon..
7th Mar.
DAR-ES-SALAAM, BEIRA,
LOURENCO MARQUES
DUBAN PORT BLIZA
BETH & CAPETOWN THENCE TO
RIO DE
JANEIRO, SANTOS &
BUENOS AIRES via Singa
& Colombe
pore 4
BRISBANE, AUCKLAND &
SYDNEY, MEL Sydney Mara
WELLINGTON via Manila.
JAPAN PORTS
PAN
Services),
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT.
Hamburg Maru
TERDAM ANTWERP Atlas Maru
Suez & Port Sald.
(Frequent Burma Maru
BOMBAY via Singapore, Shunko Maru (not
Sat.,
5th Max.
Mon., Sun..
8th Feb. 21st Feb.
Mon.,
via Singapore. Colombo, Amazon Maru
Fri..
8th Feb. 11th Mar.
NEW YORK via Japan ports,
Los Angeles & Panama.
*
Call Direct at Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
Belawan Dell & Colombo.
calling Karachi) ..
Penang & Rangoon.
HAIPHONG via Holhow... Canton Maro
Thurs.,
Fri.,
Sun.,
Menado Maru
Thurs,
18th Feb.
19th Feb.
14th Feb. 18th Feb,
KEELING vừa Stator &
Amoy (3 p.m. every Sun- day).
JAPAN PORTS via Takao & Canada Maru
Thurs..
Kseung ...
TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy Dell Maru
Thurs.,
11th Feb.
(Fortnightly).
For further particulars please apply to:-
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Honolulu Maru
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 28061.
on
Shipping
Intelligence.
HAUNT SHIPS
THE GRUMBLER INVALID AND THE NURSE.
THE
Kowloon
Wharf,
Manila, A.M.L. Taybank, British str., 9,437 tone, Capt. J. Stewart, from Shang- hai, buoy No. A8-Bank Line. Terukuni Maru, Japanese str., 7,156 tons, Capt. S. Aya, from Shanghai, busy No. AB... Wing Lee, British str., 561 tons,
N.Y.K.
Capt. J. E. Harvoy, from Fort Bayard Saikong Wharf.-Wo Hop & Co. Wing Wo, Portuguese str., 495 tons, Capt. I Lemos, from Fort Bayard, buoy No. B11-Wo Hop & Co.
Yuan On, Chinese str., 1,116 tona, Capt. 0. Soovix, from Canton, C.M.S.N. Wharf.-C.M.S.N. & Co..
CLEARANCES,
All strata of Bore are to be found, they were attacked in the Straits of on ships and are well known to all Messina by a rampaging school of who
travel. There is surely no porpoises (or should it be porpii?) excuse for many of the people one who were only driven off after meets and with whom one has to sacrificing every tin of sardines on live during a voyage.
the ship to stake their blood lust. The married bores on a ship are
Marvellous Tales. the most deadly, and the most diffi-
(We should have welcomed an ad- cult to dodge. One prowls for the venture on this trip that necessitat- victim, and when he gets you seated parting with our sardines, as ed, up comes the other, and if they became more than the back- you have any manners at all, it's bone of the hors d'oeuvres, for two to one, and you a bad third. which surely they are born, hatched, They are a couple to whom mutual or spermed, and we got so tired of boredom is happiness, and who have them lying flaccid in a saucer of weathered the storm of life, riding lamp oil, or stretched bare, parched, Tjinegara, for Amoy.
the crest of an ennui-giving and dry on a plece of yesterday's Calcutta Maru, for Kobe. wave, that ordinary people could not rusty toast, or attempting to dia- Kasagasan Maru, for Bangkok. stand up against. They have travel-guise themselves as anchovies, with Hathing, for Singapore. led before, so have we all-but no their tails in where their mouths Sulsang, for Singapore. matter--they never give Ahad been, and tinged with tomato Pres. Madison, for Seattle. chance; sometimes we may have a sauce). lead in. "That reminds me of when The intrigues, the machinations Glengarry, for Singapore.
Perseus, for Shanghai. I was in- but not a bit of it. of international crooks that the Fulda, for Manila. You are disconnected, and we hear bores have thwarted, the bridge Graciosa, for Bangkok. of the adventures they have had on hands they have held, the flying fiah Chinhua, for Dalny. other voyages. Painted in with with a wing span of twelve feet they Szechuen, for Canton. their generoua daubs of exaggera- have seen, all makes a barrage of Taybank, for Iloilo. tion, our light etchings of truth boredom, with which they assail and Halvdan, for Bangkok. carry
no conviction. For thrills, rake us in our unguarded momente. Katori Maru, for Shanghai. our life compared to theirs has been They are proof against irritability; a soft slithery blanc-mange, and our it is no good turning back to your trips at sea a merc row on a swim- book, that is a forlorn movement. ming bath. Had we gone down on leading nowhere; it is best to make the Titanic, and spent forty days your mind a blank-but not too! and forty nights in an open lifebelt, much. If they ask you a question aubsisting entirely on the ink in on the topic, and your answer is not our fountain pen, this great adven-up to elementary standards, they'll ture would be completely negatived, start again.
and a minus value given to it from
The Grumbler.
a conversational point of view Second to the bores, is the grum-) compared with what has happened bler. He sits on the bench, and to them. There was the wild des- always denounces; a. hereditary perate storm in the Suez Canal in descendant of the Hanging Judge. the Spring of '27 or '28, or was it He deceives himself that he is an '22 or '23? No matter what is optimist, and maligns everything five years to a bore? This was wistfully, as though he were the when ten ships piled themselves up type who always expected the best, on the jetty at El Cantara, or when (Continued on Page 10.)
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
Thursday, Feb. 4. Ankiang, British str., 2,047 tons, Capt, G. Morse, from Amoy, Taikeo Dock-B. & S. Canton. French str.. 976 tons,
Capt. F. L. Morvan, from Hai- phong, buoy No. B10.-M. M.
& Co.
Chang Lee, Chinese str., 1,221 tons, Capt. N. Misugi, from Swatow, buoy No. B9-Loong Tại Hong.
Chekiang, British str., 1,818 tons. Capt. A. N. Taylor, from Can- ton, Taikoo Dock.-B. & S.. Daisberg, German etr., 4,375 tons, Capt. Eckhorn, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf. Jebsen & Co.
10th Mar. Fulda, German str., 5,525 tona,
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING DATES FOR FEB., 1932 (Subject to Change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 3 pm
Steamer,
Wuchow
Leaves
Arrives Hong Kong Wachow
9th THUR.
11th FRE 11th SAT. 1916 SUN. 14th TUES 16th WED. 16th THUR. 18th FRL 19th SUN. 21st MON. 22nd WED 24th THUR 24th FEL 28th SAT. 28th TUES. 1st WED,
TAI MING❘ TUES. TAI HING THUR. TAI MING SUN. TAI HING TUES. TAI MING FRL TAI RING MON. TAI MING WED TAI HING SUN.
Arrived
12th SAT. 13th 14th MON. 15th 110 THUR. 18th 19th SAT. '20th 22nd TUES 23rd 25th FRI
4152
27th BUN, 28th
2nd THUR, 3rd
Ports of Call-Samahui, Shulbing, Takhing & Doshing. Fare Return (not including meals) $20.00.
Meals and Winm are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tai Hing Wharf,
For information apply to
29, Connaught Road, Wort, SANG WO
Phone 20828.
Ltd
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS."
The P.&O. Ba. Alipore left Shanghai for this port on Febru- ary 5 at 10 am, and is due here on February 8 at about 2 p.
at 9...
on February 8 (Mon.) She leaves Hong Kong for Manila on February 8 (Mon.) at 5 p.m.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE
The OPS. R.M.8. Empress of Consignass of cargo Husola Arrived at Shanghai on Benmehr aras
February 5 (Fri.) at 10.80 àm. left live
Shanghai on February 6 (Sat) 10
Pam and was due at Hong Kong
ded to take
February
Halvdan, Norwegian str., 761 tons, Capt. Halvorsen, from Amoy, Stone cutters Anchorage. Thoresen & Co. Solviken, Norwegian atr., 1,435
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following British warships| were in harbour to-day;—
Bruce-In dock. Cornflower-North arm. Cumberland-West wall. Herald-East wall. Hermes No. 1 buoy. Keppel No. 7 buoy. Marazion-North wall. Medway and Suba.-No. 2 busy. Pandora-In dock. Proteus-In dock. Tamar-Basin,
Verity-No. 12 buoy. Whitehall-East wall. Wild Swan-No. 12 buoy. Foreign Man-of-War. Stewart-American destroyer.
tone, Capt. Norvalls, from HONG KONG TIDES. Canton, Yaumati Anchorage. -Sing Kee. Tanda, British str., 4,237 tons, Capt. Pilcher, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.-M.M. & Co.
The time used is Standard, or mean time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.;
00h. is midnight, 12hra. is soon. The heights are referred to the datum of the largest scule Admiralty chart of Friday, Feb. 5. the place and should be cdded to the Hulchow, British str., 1,847 tona, depths given on the chart unless pre- Capt. W. L. Thomas, from ceded by an asterisk (*), when they Cantón, Taikoo' Dock.-B. & S.
should be subtracted from the depths. Katori Maru, Japanese str., 6,127 tons, Capt..M. Murakomi, from Singapore, Kowloon Wharf- N.Y.K.
++ Kutsang, British str., 3,643 tons. Capt. Mooney, from Osaka, Kowloon Dock J. M. & Co.
to 13, 1932.
High Water Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.
Times.
February
Data
Feb.
Sun.
Capt. Arndt, from Shanghal, Michigan, American str., 8,474 Mon. buoy No. A3.-Melchers & j Co.
Glengarry, British str., 5,848 tons,
topa, Capt. RC. Lechner, from Shanghai, buoy No. AT. TUBE. -States & Co.
Capt. J. Angier, from Shang-Niel Maerek, Danish str., 8,166 hai, buoy No. A9.-J. M. & Co.
Hathing, Norwegian atr., 1,445 tons, Capt. 0. 8. Olsen, from Thoresen & Co.
Times. H. M. F.
E. M. F.
7. 11 15 4.8 04 25 0.6 5 10 8.3
21 50
50 7.8 15 10
8. 11 40 4.8 04 55 0.8
2046.16 50 3.2
22 28 7.6.16
.. 12 09 5.0
12 09. 50.05 22 1.1
23.00 7.1 18 31 3.1
28 21 6.5 17 12 8.1
06. 11. 1.6
Wed 10
12
34 5.0 05 49
tons, Capt. Anderson, from Thurs. 11 .. Shanghai, Stonecutters An- chorage. Jebsen & Co. President Madison, American str., Sati 8,341 tons, Capt. Healy, from
Fri.
12
+
19
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