RAJPUTAN CREENOCK
PεO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS TAKING CARGO FOR
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, East and
South Africa, Australia, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe. PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL
STEAMERS
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HM. GOVERNMENT
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route — and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
S.S.
Destination.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
*MIRZAPORE CORFU *BHUTAN
7,000 16th Feb. 14,500 20th Feb.
Bombay and Karachi. Marseilles & London.
6,000 27th Feb.
NALDERA *BEHAR
CARTHAGE *SOUDAN
14,500 20th Mar.
JEYPORE
RANCHI
CATHAY
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 18, 1987.
POST
OFFICES
POSTAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Insufficiently
Public are reminded that the postage on Printed Papers, Commercial Papers, Samples and Small Packets must be fully prepaid. prepaid. Printed Papers etc., are not forwarded.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE
Letters, Postcards and Samples for Europe and South
forwarded via Siberia" if so superscribed.
CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS
America are
On Thursday, the 11th February the General Post Office and all Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed. There will be no collection from the. pillar boxes and no delivery by Postmen, but ordinary correspondence will be delivered to callers at the back entrance of the GP.O. from 8 am to 5 p.
On Friday, the 12th February the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 7:30 am to noon. The Sheungwan Branch Post Office from 8 am to 9 a.m. and also from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. and the other Branch Offices will be entirely closed. There will be one col- lection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, and one delivery of ordinary correspondence at noon, and one delivery of registered correspondence at 11 3.311 The registered correspondence for despatch by the RMA, Dorado will close at 8 am on Friday.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed during the Holidays.
Bangkok and Swatow Japan
Straits and, Manila.
Calcutta and Straits
Japan
Calcutta and Straits
Straits
INWARD MAILS
Kiangsu
February 13
Nagara Maru
February 14
Deucalion
February 14
Katsang
February 14
Nagara Maru
February 14.
Santhia
February 16
Toba MarÜ
.February 16
.February 17.
Straits and Europe via Suez (letters Naldera
and Pagers) London, 21st January
and London Parcels London date,
14th January.
Java.
Australia and Marila Straits
Tjibadak
February 17
Atsuta Maru
February 18
Soudan Corfu
February 18-
February 19
RAJPUTANA
* Cargo only.
6th Mar.
16,000
6,000 13th Mar.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hall.. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
7,000 27th Mar. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Antwerp and Hull.
5,000 31st Mar. Straits, Bombay & Karachi 17,000 3rd Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15,000 17th Apr. Marseilles & London. 17,000 1st May Marseilles & London.
+ Calls Casablanca. all vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH INDIA
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA SIRDHANA
-
8,000 13th Feb. 10,000 27th Feb. 8,000 18th Mar 10,000 27th Mar 8,000 10th Apr.
APCAR
Japan and Shanghai
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time. given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 am registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day...
For
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
(Due Thursday Island February 24
Date and Time
Per
Sunday
§ Calls Tangier,
SAILINGS
Hong Kong Maru Sun, Feb Saturday Manila, Australia and New Zealand Changte
via Thursday Island.
Parcels Reg Letters Kiungchow Kaying
Sat, Feb. 13, Feb. 12, Noon. 115-am
3.30 p.nt
Monday
Szechten
2.30 p.m.
Tuesday
Feb. 16
·G.P.O. and k
Reg.,
Singapore, Port Swettenham, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
Now is the time to visit Australia & New Zealand
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting per Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you including 25/-for your pound.
Frequent connection from Australia with the following:-
The Canadian Australian Line to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, etc
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London. via Panama Canal.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
TANDA
NANKI
NELLORE
7,000 5th Maz.
7,000
3rd Apr: Manila Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney 7,000 1st May- Melbourne & Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
8,000 18th Feb. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
16,000 18th Feb, Shanghai & Japan.
SANTHIA
NALDERA
*SOUDAN
7,000-19th Feb. Shangh
& Japan.
10,000 4th Mar. Amoy
sghar &
17,000 7,000
4th Maz. Shang
& Japan.
7th Mar Shang)
TALMAS
RANCH
Handbooks, etc., apply
Sandakan
Amoy
Foochow
Letters for Guam, Honolulu andTjinegar
USA by "Pan-American Airways
Service
(Due San Francisco, 23rd Feb.): Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya
Swatow, Amoy and Formosa
Letters,
Tjinegara Tues
Wednesday
Fukaken Maru
Wed, Feb. 17, 8:30 am Kutsang Wed., Feb.
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO
ΤΟ
Panama
BALBOA (Panama).
LOS ANGELES CRISTOBAL (Colon)
NEXT SAILING-
Atlantic
NEW YORK
BOSTON
MS. "TAI YANG"
16th
ON
FEBRUARY
EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION FOR 12-PASSENGERS
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NANKIL
For further information, Passage,
The Acenta
MACKINNON MACKENZIE CO
P&G BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL HONGKONG
Phone 27721
Hons
Bank Building
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