SHIPPING NOTES.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDÂY, JULY 16TM¤, 1913.
SHIP RAIDERS OF THE THAMES.
20
VALUABLE P, AND O. CARGO SPIRITED
AWAY."
The annual report of the Austrian Lloyd shows net profits of 2,581,753 kronen (ns) against 3,200,120 krouca for the preceding
When merchant ships lay in tiers, four year). As the ordinary reserve fund) abreast, in London river before the docks requires only an allocation of 270,718 came, the riverside population used to take tribute to the extent of nearly half- kronen (comparing with 490,807 kronen), a-million sterling por annum. There was owing to the general reserve fund having strong indignation at the idea of bandl- now reached its statutory maximum, iting cargoes in docks built with high has been possible to increase the distribu- walls about and watchmen at the gates.
tion from 81 to 7 per cent.
thefts from craft
The tribute is nothing like £500,000 to-day. It is comparatively insignificant. But shipowners are regarding the dis- appearance of enrgo from ships in the port so seriously that the detective branch of the P.L.A. police has been completely
and reorganised,
ex-Chief Inspector Bower, Inte' of Scotland Yard, is now in
Minor charge. anchored in the river can be understood. A tug may, creep up, with lights hidden, to a raft of coal barges, and help herself. Bat the bigger thefts seem to be in the enclosed docks, and they are not easy to example, is surrounded by a strong fence. understand. The Albert Dock, for
perhaps a dozen feet high, and a mast. Every exit is carefully watched.,
In connection with the evasion at Dairon and other ports of Kwangtung (the Japanese icazed territory) of the import duty imposed upon steamers sad vessels purchased from abroad, a certain high official in the Japanese Department of Communications is reported to have expressed to a Tokyo Press representative the viow that the affair is a serious one hoth from financial and political stand points. The steamers imported from abroad during last year exceeded fifty, and of these only five were imparted through the proper channel and paid the duty. Thus upwards of ninety per cent. of the steainers smuggled were registered at Dairen for the express purpose of evading the tariff. These smugglers, says the official, declare that in case a law is enacted imposing the duty on steamers registered at Dairen they will register the vessels under the British flag at Hongkong, Singapore, etc. The official
quoted expressed his surprise at such a declaration on the part of the Japanese smugglers," and pointed out that the Tokyo Government will shortly open negotiations with the Governor-Gen-Australia, wore signed for by both the eral's Office of Ewangtung on the subject,
£3,000 CARGO LORT.
Yet the P. & D. Company, in a recent case, explained that from one of their steamers £3,000 of cargo was abstracted in one voyage. The hatches were securely fastened down before leaving London, and only on arrival at her destination was the loss discovered. How so much merchandise could be spirited away is a mystery Recently in Dockland, one shipper told a Daily News visitor the story of a consignment of Sheffield ware in three large cases which were carted into a London dock for shipment to
dock officials and the shipowners, but were not on the ship when she arrived as Melbourne.
A table appearing in the annual report of the Suez Canal Company shows that The routine of handling cargo, as the Ellermaan Lines were the principal explained to the Daily News representa- users of the Canal last year, with a tive, would seem to give this the appear. tonnage of 1,249,000 and 207 voyages, anca of art magic. The three large cases The Peninsular and Oriental come next were received into the dock warehouse with a tonnage of 1,212,000 and 241 and signed for. They were checked out voyages. In 1911 the positions were to the ship's people taken up by the reversed, the P. and O. Company taking ship's crane, and put into the hold. The first place with a tonnage of 1,205,000. ship's mate gave his receipt, and the ship- and the Ellerman Lines the second with
owner, on the strength of it, signed the a tonnage of 1,158,200, but with 286 consignor's bill of lading-the paper voyages, as compared with-244 of P and equivalent for the goods. But the con
Alfred Holt & Co. (Decansignment was not on board when the 0. vessels.
Twelve months later the and China Mutual Companies) come liner arrived,
tonnage,
the first
thren
A WISER BUT SADDER MAN.
shipping companies last year wero Minor robberies in the London docks
The
third on the list with a tonnage of goods were identified in an East End 1,015,000 and 210 voyages. Thus, as shop. regards British, whilst the next three were German, viz., the Hansa Line, with aarr tonnage of 880,000 and 220 wyages, the Hamburg-American Line with 695,000 tous and 154 voyages, and the North German Lloyd with 608,000 tons and 105 voyages. All the companies given above Whereas in recorded increased tonnage. 1911 the Messageries Maritimes were fifth with a tonnage of 603,400 and 172 voyages, last year they receded to the seventh position with a tonnage of 583,000, and so yielded place to both the Hamburg- American and the North-German Lloyd, though the number of voyages was greater than either at 104,
Interesting information appears in a White Paper just issued containing returns of shipping and tonnage passing through the Suez Canal for the year 1912, with comparisons for the two previous years. The tables show that there was an
Bear
sam ever
1912.
of almost daily Occurrence watchman at the gangway-if one were there at all-would have to stop one man in three, who wanted to come aboard, and unless he were a thought reader as well as a sailor any well-chosen fable would be as good as pass. So the hig Scots chief officer of one vessel recently he was new to the port-was warned of what happened to anything portable about a ship it she were not closely watched.
He had just been paid off, too, after 2 voyage, and was going back to the ship "Well, lock the till the next morning.
RUSSIAN SHIPPING IN THE FAR EAST.
STEARY INCREASE
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"Gentlemen, look at this evidence!"
You could not ask for more intelligent and trustworthy witnesses than these well-known people who have come forward, of their own free will, un testify in public that they have taken Sanatogen--that
it did really benefit their health-and that it specially benefited their nerves.
Weigh their evidence well, gentlemen | And remember that I can also produce over 16,000 original letters, signed by responsible practising physicians, who commend Sanatogen because of the excellent results which they have obtained from it in cases of nervous exhaustion, brain-fag, sleeplessness, depres sion, lassitude, anemia, digestive disorders, dysentery, and various wasting diseases.
But, gentlemen, I will not ask you to base your final verdict even upon this evidence. I will ask you to give your evidence upon the evidence of your own senses to let your own bodies tell you whether Samtogen is a true health-giver,
In one word, gentleinen, I will ask you to
Try Sanatogen Yourselves!
Buy a bottle of Sapatogen today; it is sold by all Chemists. And write for a Free Copy of "The Art of Living," by Dr. Andrew Wilson, the well-known Melical Author. This interesting book tells you all about Sanategen and also contains a great deal of valuable advice on health topics. Write at ouce, mentioning this paper, to the manufacturers of Samutogen, Mesars. A. Wulfing & Co., 6, Kikkiang Road, Shanghai,
DG C. M. Sen a, the well-known
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Lloyd's Register or the Bureau Veritas, mortgages for amounts up to 75 per cent. of their value-can be obtained from the- State Bank at 5 per cent. interest. According to the latest statistics, the Rus- sian flag, owing to all this State assist- ance, nov ranks fires in East Asiatic waters, and from 400,000 registered in 1908 it has reached $32,000 tons, leaving the Japanese and German flags far. behind.
EASTERN AND AUSTRALIAN. S.S. COMPANY.
SIR LUKE WHITE, M.; "My riperience of analogen con fires the medical opinion; there is no tonger tut feeling of fatigue which one previously experience:k, but theres follows from its use a distinct restora- Live cf26"
MR. SHIRLEY TREMBARNE, Editor of
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AN ADVENTURER'S DOINGS IN
TOKYO.
OBTAINS SOME TWO HUNDRED TROUSAND YES BY TRAUÐ,
A Japanese adventurer has by fraudu lent means managed to obtain: some Y. 200,000 fruin residents in Tokyo and other districts during the past year, says the Japan Gazette,
The individual in question, who, accord- ing to the Japanese papers, has been living like a nobleman." attracted the habits and driving in an automobile to attention of the police by his luxurious
On June 20th, when visiting the Momiji. I the various restaurants in the capital,
door when you turn in." he was advised. Awa' wi'ye, when I've got, that," said the Scot, turning up his sleeve, and show. ing an arm of shocking circumference, decorated with red bristles. The police- man on the quay, passing the ship next morning, heard loud wicked cries above. It was, the Glasgow mate. He wanted He had left his three months' help increase of 1,060,326 tons ia net tonnage money in his trousers' pockets and had as compared with 1971, and an increase left his cabin door open for air, the of 3,603,222 tons on the total for 1910.wenther being what it is. He wanted Notwithstanding a reduction in the policeman to get his trousers. They transit dues from £7.95 to 1.6 c.76, the
were flying in the morning wind from a gruss mceipts amounted in 1912 to the
rail aft. with the pockets insolently highest
reached, namely, turned inside out. f.136,123,831, as against 134,762,100 n the previous year. The number of vessels which passed through the canal wis 4,533 in 1910, 4,909 in 1911, and 5,373 in 1912. of which 2.778 in 1910, 3,080 in 1913, and 3,335 in 1019 carried the British flag. There was an increase of 1,331,674 bor last year, as compared with 1911. in the Lonnage of British vessels, which amounted to
10 12,817,621 tons
Judging from the latest particulars Daring the same period the boneage of available relating to the shipping trade German vessels increased from 2503, 7:49
in Russian Asia, su, s Fairphey, it is clear tons in 1910 and 2,790,963 tons in 1911 to that, notwithstanding the limited scope 3,025,415 tons in 1912. The percentage of of its operations, it is steadily increasing. British vessels and their net tonnage last The scanty maritime population is for was 621 and. 63.4 respectively, as the most part engaged in the coastwise compared with 02.2 and 64 in the previous traffic, for which the remuneration is
The often most miserable. year, and 81.3 and 62.9 in 1910.
There are only
The report of the directors for the year percentage of Gerraan vessels and their three commercial harbours available all
along the coast, namely, Vladivostock, ended December 31, 1912, states that the net tonnage was 13.6 and 14.9 respectively. as compared with 13.4 and 15.2 in 1911 Nicolaievsk, and Petpropalovsk, besides anticipations expressed in the last report and 14 and 15.5 in 1910, while the per- which, in hard winters, navigation is of improved earnings during 1912 have kan, he was taken into custody. The centage of net tonnage of the other clused altogether for three four been realized, and after providing for all | maritius nations using the Canal last months. Under these circumstances it is steamers' charges and marine insurance, adventurer, Jensaku Nakae by name, hails from Saga Prefecture. In March last he year remained practically stationary, us pet surprising that Russian capitalists
Logether with debenture and other compared with the preceding year." Out have been shy of putting money inte ship-terest, there is a working profit of arrived in Tokyo, where he posed as a of. 4,155 merchant vessels, and vessel; inping in those waters, although vessels ballast of a not tonnage of 15,391,877 tons under the flags of other nations find 493,073 18s. Id. Against this an amount nobleman and a Bungakushi, or Bachelor passing through B Canal, 3.075 ships, regular, and often profitable, employer depreciation, and a sum of £5,000 has who opened their arms and their choque. of £16,014 has been written off for of Literature. By these pretences he secured introductions to money-lenders, of a net tonnage of 11,484,912 tons, were in the Chinese Japanese seas. Dur-
been set aside as a provision against and 74.8 per cent of the tonnage. war, out of about 1,500,000 tons of ship- Gorman vessels numbered 417, ar 9.9 per ping entering and leaving Vladivostock deductions there remains, with the addi- forging official seals and documents cent,, whilst Helland, Austria, Hungary, Harbour, only about 400,000 tons were tieu of 286 28. 11d. brought forward from belonging to the District Court and City France, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Den under the Russian flag, although the 1911, a balance of 23,050 28., from which seal he was able to refraud a number of Office in Saga Profectare. With these mark, and Italy combined furnished
coastwise trade is limited to that flag, the the directors recommend that £2,000 shall a total of 16.6 per cent. of the vessels and Japanese flag dominated, followed by the be transferred to underwriting account people, and his total haul, as stated,
IMA 24.9 per cent. of the tonnage. As evidence German, the Russian companies and that the balance of £1,656 9. be
Possessed of more money than sense, of the increasing size of modern ships, 42 having the maritime postal concessions carried forward to next year's accounts.
the individual ransomed two geisha at a steamers, excceding 402 ft. in length and had to charter foreign vessels.
The cash indebtedness of the Company more than 50 ft. in breadth, with a
In recent years, however, the Russian has been substantially reduced; the items price of Y. 1,000 each, and at the time of e in. passed Government has succeeded, by virtue of of debentures, loan from bankers, and his arrest was living with these women draught of over 26 ft. through the canal last year. The mean substantial subsidies, in building up a bills payable amounting in the present at a house in Shiba, where he kept a fairly duration of passage for all vessels mercantile fleet in the Arctic Ocean. The balance sheet to £53,500 against £90,760 large establishment, navigating the canal was 16 hours 10 min, Volunteer Fleet, for example. thanks to in the previous year. Provision for the in 1912, ns compared with 7 hours 1 min.
the assistance of the State, now possesses
proper maintenance of the fleet has been- in the previous year, while the percentage a sufficient number of mail steamers, most made out of revenue. During the early of vessels navigating by night as well as of them new and up-to-date in quality months of the current year the earnings by day amounted to 96.3 per cent, last the lines worked by this Company connect year, as compared with 16.4 per cent. in Vladivostock with the Black Sea, with further to improve, and it is hoped that of the steamers have shown a tendency 1911. The vessels passing through the Japan, China, Kamchatka, and the Sen canal in 1912 included .85 warships and of Okhostk, and a new line has recently
this improvement will be maintained. transports, of 128,631 net tonnage, and been created, the bouts in which run as 1,054 mail steamers of 1,499,151 net tonfar as the mouth of the Kalina river. The number of troops carried The following sams are received in the nage. through the canal during last year shape of annual subventions by the amounted to 73,218, as against 98,555 in different lines worked by this Company:
decrease of 2,207. 1911, being a
The Vladivostock-Shanghai, 630,000 roubles; number of civilian passengers amounted to Odessa, 600,000 roubles; to the mouth to 161,333 last year, as against 144,635, of the Kalina, 105,000 roubles: to being an increase of 16,898 It appears Kamchatka, 510.000 roubles. In addition 息 that the tonnage of coal passing from
to all this, the Volunteer Fleet Company north to south amounted in 1912 to
has received by way of loan au advance 907.433 tone, compared with 1,091,223 tons of 1,530,000 roubles for the building of in the previous year. In the traffic from
four new mail. steamers for the south to north the tourage of wheat Kamchatka line. The coasting trade is FRESH amounts to 1,925,133 tons, as compared likewise subsidised, and one company with 1,044,000 tons in 1911, the greater engaged in it receives a yearly sum of portion of which was for the United $75,000 roubles. A further privilege Kingdors,
granted is that, for vessels classed with
British, being 73.5 per cent of the numbering the year fall the Russo-Japanese certain contingencies. After making these, books to bim. He has also been guilty of!
GRACA & CO.
Frop & Br. (Hongkong Hotel Buildingì Dealers in
DOSTAGE STAMPS, PICTORIAL
POST CARDS, CIGARS, BOOKS
TOYS, in
Just Received SUPPLY OF VEGETABLE SEEDS
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amounts to over Y. 200,000.-
2
PASSED THE "CANAL.
May 30th-Antilochus, Nore. ・・・ June 8th-Ernest Simons, TeuEp Tydeus, Den of Clamis.
June 10th-Bohemia, Nippon. June 18th-Indrani, File, Perseus: June 17th-Benglot, Dunbar. June 20th. Miyanki Maru, Ningehow, Vorwaerts, Cotswold Range, Fangteze, Amazone, 0, J. D. Ahlers.
June 4th-Glazee, Meinam. June 27-Lothian, Nankin.... July 1st-Benvenue, Palawan, Peking, Princess Alice, Afghan Prince, Arabia, Tranquebar, Glenfarg.
July 4th-Belgravia. Konigen Laire, Kitano Maru, Caufa, Peleus, Polynesien, July 8th Ambria, Goeben. "Japan, Theseus, Baron Ogilvy, Neleus.
July 11th-Himalay, Annam, Hyson. Africa, City of Baroda. Nyanza, Paul. Ereat, Baron Jedburgh,
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most excellent food."
WEATHER REPORT
On the 15th at 12.13 p.m.-Pressure has do- oreased slightly over Ohiba and moderately ofer Indo-China A shallow depression still cosora the north-west portion of the Chins Son,
No returns from Japan.
A typhoon has passed noar Legaspi at 6 am. this morning, travelling W.N.W.
Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours -ding at 10 s.m. to-day, 0.1 inchos.
The foregunt for the 24 hours "ending at noon to-day is agfollows:
DISTRICT
* Hongkong & Neighbourbura
Formass Chaunot
FORECAST.
(N.E. winds, modcrate.
Sortir ears, at Chiun berpeyni ; 'ihe same on Hongkong and sanooka, į No. 7.
South coast of Chins between (The same as
No. 1. Hongkong and Hainan...{
* E, winds, moderate fine.
CIFINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
Station,
Vl'ostook
Nemuro
REGISTER.
16TH JULY, 1913, J.M.
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KEATING'S
WORM TABLETS
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY. THERAPION No. + THERAPION No.: 2 THERAPION
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Wind.
7 n. 29.75 42: 70 83% 6 n.
78
29.77 71
29.72 29.77
60 29.8
29.81 80191
-5a. 29.75
Trichu
29.75
Tainan
29.75
29.75
Pescadorco.. 29.73
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Hongkong
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29.79 83
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director.
1 BANGETER, reduced to 3o degrees Fahrenheit,
on the level of the sea in insos, tenth and busdredths.
TEMPERATURE, in the sando, in dogross
Fahrenheit.
3 HUMIDITY, in porcentage of saturation, tha ne idity of air enturated with molature being 100.
4 DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points.
3 Fonch or WIND, nosording to Bezufort Seale.
8 STATE OF WHATHIG, b blue sky, a detachṣel eland, & drizzling rain, f for, g gloomy, h baill, lightning, o varoast, p possing showers, 4 squall. Train, o enos, & thunder, « visibility, w now fina
Baninches tenths and ketosispastier
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL
REGISTER
"Rongkong Observatory, July 14th. -
Previour On Late On Date
Day:
At
st
at 2 p. 6 8.10.
21,0.
Barometer Temperature
29.77
29.72
29.70
85
79
86
Hamidity......
81
93
76
Fast
2
0.10
Wind Dirvotion .... Part
Fores
Weather
Highrat open air Temperature on 14th...87 Lowest open air Temperature on 14th...78
HONGKONG TIDE TABLE.
From 16th to 22nd July 1913.
DIGH WATER
LOW WATER
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H'korg
Menu
Time.
'kong. Menn Time.
11. 12
ft. in.
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