Shipping HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
INO ONJUNCTION WITH
Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft "HANSA.”
EAST ASIATIC.SERVICE,
Regular Sailinge from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINES. via STRAITS and COLOMBO,
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Marseilles, Havre, Bremen and Hamburg and New York.
faking Cargo at Thinugh rates in a European North Continental and British Ports, also Tricate, Lisbon, Oporto, Gianos, and other Mediterraneo Levantine, Black-Baltic Sea and P., and a North and Sonih American Paru.
Next Sallings from Hongkong : OUTWARD.
For 8 august. Kob- ± Yokohama.
S.S. ARMENIA 2nd Des,
ALTMARK ......3rd Jax. SILESIA ......... 14th dat.
SUEVIA
27th Jan
O. J.-D. AHLERS1iih Feb. SPEZIA........... 26th Feb, SENEGAMBIA. 10th March | SITHONIA......rd Match
For Farther Particulars, apply to
HOMEWARD),
Fur Marilles Havre & Hamburg;
B.S. SEGOVIA....28 De
Fur Harre Bremss & Hamburg:
8.S. ALESIA.........24th Dia. For Rotterdam, Bremen & Hamburg; SS. BRASILIA........11b Jan. For Hare & Hamburg;
........16th Jan. 88. SAMBIA For Betterdams, Bremsen & Humburg; S.S. FURST BDLOW. 21th Jan For PT. Brem u & Hamburg:
8.S. ARMENIA......... 5th Jan, För Harte & Hamburg;
S.S. AUTMARI...th Pub. For Marseilles, Brewen & Hamburg
SS. GOLDEN FELS...7th Feb.
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Uffee.
BRITISH INDIA S. N.
CO., LTD.
112
NEW FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN KOBE, HONOKONG AND RANGOON.
EASTWARD.
*The 8.9." PUNTALA,” 4154 tous grew Captila, H. Chiller will bo patched for YOKOHAMA & KOBE on the 14th January, at daylight taking cargo and Passengers at current rate..
WESTWARD.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER
VESSELS TAKING CARGO A
Destination.
London and Antwerp
London and Antwerp via Singapore, &o..
Havre and Hamburg, &o.,
do..
do
do
Bremen, and Hamburg, &o.
Mexico, Peruvian and Chili via Japan
Cape Porte via Mauritius
Copenhagen and Baltic Ports...
European Ports,
Denbighshire
Sicilia
Alosin
Sambia
J. M. & Co..... 28 December
MOVEMENTS OF
STEAMERS.
VESSELS ADVERTISED TO
DEPART TO-MORROW.
Vessel Singan. Mausang. Sui Tali Kueichow Hangchow. Ningpo
For
Vessel's Name.
For Freight Apply To
To be
Pakhoi,
Dispatched.
India,
Macao, Philippines, Tsingtau,
P. & O. Co.... 25 Dec., about
H.A. L.
24 December
Singapore,
H: A. L
11 January
Hamburg,
Alesia.
*
5 Jaquary...
Shanghai
T.K. K.“ Bank Line A. N. & Co.... 8. W. & Co... -M. & Co.
1 February
Foochow,
Koonshing.. Haiyang
Begin. January
15 January
31 Dec., about 25 December
11
Brasilia Kiyo Maru Daneric Canton
... Persia
Trieste, Fiume, Venice via Singapore, &c. Naples, Genoa, Algiers, Gibraltar, Southampton
New York, via Suez Canal
Luetzow
H. A. L
New York, San Francisco and Canada.
do
New York via Ports and Suez Canal San Francisco via Shanghai and Japan, &c.
do
do. do. Victoria, Vancouver, &o," "'... Victoria, B.C., and Tacoma via Japan, &o. Victoria, B.C., and Tacoma via Keelung, &c.... Victoria, B.C.,.and Seattle via Shanghai, to.... Vancouver via Shanghai and Japan, &c.... Aancouver
Australian Ports
do
.do
Australian Ports via Manila
do'
do
do
Schuylkill. Swazi Nile Mongolia Ookley
Tacoma Maru... Panama Mara...
Awa Maru Empress of India Monteagle
The as. Oakley, lefé Muroran on the 14th Inst., and is expected to arrive here on the 24th inst
The s.s. Fitz Clarence, Bailed from Moji on the 21st inst., and is expected to arrive here on the 26th inst.
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The as. Ortoric, sailed from Moji on the 20th inst and 16 OX- pected to arrive here on the 25th inst.:
VESSELS ADVERTISED TO
ARRIVE TO-MORROW.
The Silk ex O.S.K. 8 s' Mexico Maru, which left Hongkong on the 12th ult, was delivered in New. York on the 19th inst.
VESSELS IN PORT.
From
Vessela
Shanghai:
Lutzow
Japan,
·Sicilia.'
Bank Line ... 30.December
Muroran,
S. T..& Co... P. M. Co.
9 Jan., about
Moji,
Ockley. Thongwa
31 December
.::. P. M. Co.
Bank Line 0.8. K. 0.8. K.
7 January.<
End of December ...26 December
N. Y. K. "O. P. R. Co.... O. P. R. Co....
4 January 31 December
11 January 8 March:
Australia.
MAO
Changsha
B. & S.
4 January
2
"Prinz Waldemar
St. Albans
M. & Co.
W
G. L. & Co....
4 January
Singapore, Coast Ports and Japan..
Batavia, Cheribon, Samarang, &c.
do Singapore, Penang and Calcutta
Singapore. Samarang and Sourabaya Kudat, and Sandakan
The 5.8. "OKARA" -52+1 Bogross, Capt. H. R. Hirst, will be dur-Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and Caloutla palched for SINGAPORE, PEN AND and RANGOON on the 12th January, 1913 at mann, on! will be followed by the 8 3. UPADA", 5257 tons gros, Capt. Logau, sailing hense on or about the 29th January 1913 at 2000, taking
cargo at current raten.
For Fiaghiar Pasengo, apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON "&
CO., LTD..
Telephone No. 215,
AGENTS.
Hongkong, 2let December, 1917.
LOG BOOK.
The New Thames Tunnel.
Japan
do
Yokohama and Kobe
Yokohama and Kobe via Shanghai
do do do Kobe and Moji Kobe and Yokoliuma
do
do do
do do
do do.
After a time, however, this was abandoned, and those who used | Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama the subway had to walk, The Anping and Tukao via Swatow and Amoy tuanel was cluaod in 1897 Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Blackwall tunnel coat a million and a-half. The Rothorrhithe tunnel cost 61,000,000, sud that at Greenwich £180,000. Black wall and Rotherhitho tuunels at for vehicular traffic as well 5 foot passengers.
Light Destroyed by Salling Ship, At 2.30 this morning. says an Adelaide report, dated Novembe
Foochow via Swatow and Amoy Manila
Manila, Ceba and Iloilo Manila, Mangarin, Iloilo and Cebu
do do do Shanghai, Kobe and Moji... Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama
do do
The new foot tunnel between North and South Woolwich make an important stage in the lustory of that part of the Thames. The opening occurs at a time in the year when the need of a tunnel ie most felt, for it was constructed mainly because of the incon venience by fog, which frequent ly brings about a completo stop page of the foo ferry service, thas preventing workmen and others
short distance from the Shanghai from crossing the river. During 1900 to 1907 the ferry was sus- Semaphore jetty and near the total Outer Harbour, was destroyed by pended owing to fog for a of 833 hours, or an average of 104 the sailing ship Dimedule which
came up the Gulf and entered thei hours per year. The stoppages oc- ourred during the early morning, Semaphore anchorage without the when workpeople had to cross the services of a pilot. Both persons river to their work. So great has on the lighthouse were drowned. been the inconvenience caused by Nothing was left standing excepts
do
do
do do
17. the Wonga Shoal Lighthouse, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe and Yokohama
a structure 80 ft. high, situated Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama
*
the dielocation of the ferry service few broken piles. Fortunately it ié that many employers of labour not the custom at the Port Ade- wore forced to give preference laids light station for keepers' when engaging men to those who wives and families to reside with had no need to cross the river. them, otherwise the death toll The thickness of the river bed would have been more serious above the tunnel is about ten The Dimsdale bears, evidence of
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.do-
do
do
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To
Sail
FOR SHANGHAI, KOBE
D
AND MOJL.
HE Blomship
* DILWARA,”
DAY, the 20th Dec., at Noon. *
Tjitaroem Tjimahi
Thongwa
Ningpo
Borneo
J. O. J. L. J. O. J. Lí D. S. & Co...
Colombo Mara... N. Y. K.
Tjiliwong Tjimanook Faitala
B. & S.
..... M, & Co...
28 December
Quick despatch* Quick despatch" 27 December, 28 December 24-Decomber Middle of January J. O. J. L. Quick despatch J.C. J. L..... Quick despatch J. M. & Co..... 14 January S. W. & Co...., 30 Dec., about S. W. & Co... 30 Dec., about D. S. & Co.... 30 December M. & Co.. ...
7 Jan.; about ...N.. Y. K.
2 January N..Y. K
·0. S. K.
E. F. Ferdinand Vorwaerts Arratoon Apoar. Coblenz Kaga Maru Nikko Maru Seshu Maru Haiyang Haiching Haitan Kaijo Maru Loongsang Kuaichaw *Zafiro Rabi
...
D. L. & Co....
15 January
25 December
24 December
... D. L. & Co.... 27 December
·D. L. & Co.... 31 December' 0. S. K. *.... 1 January J. M. & Co...., 28 December B. & S. 24 December
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S. T. & Co.... 27 December S. T. & Co... 7 January D. S. & Co.... 24 December.
Carmarthenshire J. M. & Co..., 14 Jan, about
Dilwara
Dumboa
Altmark
Sunda
Prinz Ludwig
Tjilatjap
Tjibodas
Tjikini Koorber Koonshing. Chenan
To Sail
K
Hongkong-New York.
FOB NEW YORK VIA SUEZ
MORE CANAL. RONGKONG-NEW YORK
M. M. Co... 30 December H. A. L ....3 January.
·P.&.0. Co.... 26. Dep., aboat M. & Co.
.J. O. J. L.
...26 Dec., about
Quick despatch Quick cospatch.
J. O., J. L....
P. M. Co. Quick despatch S. W. & Co.... 5 January J. M. & 06... B. & S...
***
24 December. 26 December
To Sail
AMERICAN MAIL.
The T. K. K. 8.5. Nippon Maru,
Steamers.
Andree Rickmera. Ger, 8 s... 2,673
Heinberg, 20th Dao. Hamburg 10th
8. WAN
Chihli, Br, 8.8., 1.143, McGarity, 16th Doc-Wuhu 10th Dec., Rice-B; & §;
ChipShing, Br. s.s.,1,199, Mooney,
13th Dec-Canton 12th Dec., Gen.-J., M. & Co..
loft San Francisco for Hongkong Clara Jebsen, Ger. s.s., 1,103, A
via usual porte on the 7th inst.
and is due here on the 31st inst.
The PM. 9.8 Korea, arrived at San Francisco on the 16th inst
FRENCH MAIL.
The 8.8. Ernest Simons will not leave Shanghai before the 25th inst. and is expected to arrive here' on the 28th inst.
The M.M. .s. Ernest Simone, with the outward French mail, will leave for Europe on the 28th inst, at 7 p.m."
The M.M. B.s. Caledonien, with the outward French mail, will leave for Europe on the 31st inst., at 1p.m
GERMAN MAIL.
The I. G. M. 9.8. Prinz Ludwig, carrying the German mails with dates from Berlin of the 27th ult, left Colombo on the 15th "inst, pm, and may be expected here on the 28th inst.pm.
AUSTRALIAN MAIL.
The E. and A. str. St. Albans, from Sydney, left Port Darwin on the 2nd inst. for Timor, Manila and Hongkong.
The E. and A. ss. Eastern, left Sydney on the 18th inst. for this port via Queensland and ports, Port Darwin and Manila:
MERCHANT STEAMERS.
The B.s. Shimosa salled from New York on the 24th ult., for Far East, via the Straits.:
The str. Kangas, passed the
P. Ulderup, 13th Dec.- Canton 12th Dec., Gen.-- J. & Co.,
Dilwara, Br. 6.s., 3,460, W.
Bishop, 21st Dec.-Singa- pore 15th Dec.. Gen-D, 8. & Co. S
Empress of India, Br. s.s., 5,940,
A. Hailey, 21st Dec.- Vancouver, B.C., 28th Nov, Mail & Gen-6. P. R. Co. 20 Erviken, Nor. 8.s., 1,400, Angen
sen, 19th Dec.-Canton 18th Dec., Coal.-M. B. K. Halching, Br. ss., 1,267, W. 0,
Passmore, 15th Dec Swatow 14th Dec,, Gen. -P. L. & Co. Halvard, Nor, ss., 1,066, C. An-.
dersen, 2 at Deo-Bang kok and Hoihow 20th Dec Gen. Chinese, Hangchow, Br. 8.8.,999, G. Morse,
20th Doc. Chefoo 14th Dec., Gen. B. & §... Hanoi, Fr. B.B., 739, G. Bonhier, 12th Deo. Haiphong via Pakha. 10th Dec., Gen.- A. R. Marty. Hanyang. Br. s B., 1.296, J. Cogan, 19th Dec Tientsin 12th Dec., Gen.-B. & S Hoihow, Br. e.s., 987, McCulloch,
10th Dec.Amoy 7th Dec., Ballast.-B. & S. Kauchow, Br. s.s., 1,217, Monk" man, 14th Dec.-Swatow 13th Deo., Gen.-B. & S.. Kobya, Br. ss., 1,168, Ballast, 12th Deo Manila 5th Dec., Gen. R. Basa. Kueichow, Br. 6.8., 1,215, Cole, 13th Dec.--Canton 12th Dec., Gen.-B; &8.. Laertes, Br. s.s., 1,320, Wawn, 5th Deo. Saigon 22nd Nov, Gen. Wo Fat Bing Liberia, Ger. 8.s., Schroeder, 14th
Dec. Shanghai 11th Dec., Gon.-E. A LON Namsang, Br. 8.8., 2,591, H. L Gilroy, 14th Dec. Japan; Coal and Gen.-J., M& Col
Petchaburi, Br. s... 1,972, GoseTM wiach, 19th Dec Soura- baya, 8th Dec, Bugar
B.M.S. "DUNUTTAR CASTLE, Suez Canal on the 3rd December, Pheumpenh, Br. 8.5, 1.086, Scott,
The bora steamer of 6,687 tons and is due here on or about 3rd register and classed 200 A.7. at Lloyds, | January, having superior first class passengers socommodation, fitted with wireles The T. K. K... Kiyo Maru, telegraphy, aleotris fans in all states arrived at Honolulu from rooms and carrying first class passen
gers only, is dus at Hongkong on the Manzanillo on the 13th inst. and 18th instant, and will leave for Yoko is due in Hongkong on the 18th hams direct the following day, She January.
will return here on THURSDAY, January 2nd and sail for Singapore.
The I. M. G. s.s. Coblenz, left Penang, Rangoon, Caloutia, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Buas (for Cairo). Sydney on the 14th inst., at 11
MONDAY, January 6th 1913,
on or about 6th January, På number of vacant first o'nas berths" are available at modemtentes, and ed if required. For further particulars from New York, in due at Hong- (With liberty to call at the Malaber special accommodation can also be book- The Indra Line 8.8. Indramayo,
please apply to an
kong on the 23rd inst. Sho passed. Count)
British 8.8. “BWAZI” MAR
JARDINE, MATHESON & Canal on the 26th ult.
00., LTD., For freight & farther in ormation, on or about 11th January, 1919. apply to man patie
SHEWAN, TOMES & Co.,
Geneni Agents.
587 Hongkong, Sad Dec. 1912.
feet. The tunnel has taken over the collision on her stem and on THE two years to complete, although her port and starboard bows. the actual tunnel length was All the South Australian light- started in December, 1910, and houses and those from Fremantle Capt. W. J. Bishop, will be despatched finished in October, 1911. Access to Brisbane were promptly in for the above purts on THURS to the tunnel is obtained by lifts formed of the disaster and asked The Steamer has superior Booom holding 40 persons each, and also to communicate with ships bound dation for passengers, is installed by epiral staircases. London has to Port Adelaide, informing them throughout with Electric Light and AMERICAN ASIATIO 8.9. CO Port Said. Messina and Marseilles on a.m., and may be expected here now five passages under the river, of the calamity. Captain T. B. carries a duly certified doctor,
Return Tours to Japan (oonpying Brunel's tunnel, between Rother Richardson (ohief pilot) went hithe and Wapping, now used by off to the Dinadala early this 29 days). the railway, which took eighteen morning. She was lying within The Steamers leave about every 8 quarter of a mile, to weeks for Shanghai and Kobe (Inland years to construct, was opened ja for traffic in 1843, and the other the north of where the light-e), retu ning vis Maji, providing a Return tickets are available by the four have all come into use with-house had stood. Captain Jones stay of 5 to 6 days in Japan the last fifteen-Blackwall in said that his vessel had taken a Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.'s 1897, Greenwich 1902, Rother-sheer and had run into the light- Steamer. Fare for round trip $20. hithe 1908, and Woolwich 1912. bouse. Asked whether the light But it is more then a con- was burning brightly he replied tury since a project was put for in the affirmative, and stated that ward for constructing a tunnel he had not signalled for a pilot, Bonghong, 19th Des., 1913. under the Themes. In 1798 it as he did not want one. The was proposed to build one at accident, be said, happened at Gravesend, but the scheme was 2.32 a.m. Ha lowered a boat to abandoned. Other soliemes were search for the occupants of the time of the disaster a moderate brought forward in subsequent demolished lighthouse, but no south south east wind was blow years, but Brunel was the first to body could be seen. In view of ing That would be a fair wind succeed where others had failed, the pending inquiry he did not for a sailing vessel, approching of England. It was built in 30th December For many years there was a sub- wish to make any further the Semaphore anchorage. The 1900-1 and stood in 18t, of For Visight and farther particular, way at the Tower; it was begun statement. He remarked, how Dimsdale arrived from Bahia,
For Further Particular, spply to
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LD., Agente,
1998
Agents.
Seang
Saigon 14th Dec., Gen Wo Fat Bing.vn Bee, Br. s.e 8,784, Travis, 19th Dec, Rangoon via Singapore 4th Dec., Gen.). Singan, Br. s.s, 1,047, Robinson,
Soshu
20th: Doc
Haiphong
and Pakhoi 18th Deo, Gen. B. & 8.199 Maru,, Jap 8.8., 1,119, L4 Tashiro, 21st Dec Swa tow, 20th Dec, Gen. 0,
Suisang, Br. 8.8., 1,760, Payne, 16th Deo-Java 5th Doc, Bugar.-J.-M. & Co. Tacoma Maru, Jap s 9,000,
Hamada, 20th Dec Manila 18th Deo. Gen.
Tamarao, Br 88 Macdonald.. 19th Dec -San-Francis- col Bulk all-8.0.Com
The s.8, Thongwa, from Shang- Hough one 12th Nov. 1819,844 hal and Kobe, left Moji on the 20th, Tean, Br. 6.8., 1,374, A. W Outer AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL and may be expected here on or
LINE
about the 24th inst. a m.
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The 1. G. M. se, Borneo, has (With liberty to call at the Ma'abar left Sandakan on Thursday the 18th of Deo. at p.m., and may be expected here on or about Tues- day the 27th of Dec, at noon
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previous occasions for wheat. The cost of the structure o
BOBUYLKILL- sensationally demolished by the Dimsdale was $20,000 T taxship manufactured by Chance Bros., will be despstobed from this part on including $3,500 for a lantern
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