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THE HONGKONG »TELEGRAPH, - WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1913.
CHAMBER OF SHIPPING to the Board of Trade for the great FAR EASTERN NAVAL SQUADRONS.
President on Current Toples
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At the annual meeting of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom in London. Mr
disaster to the Titanio he would
take it. He looked with interest
Name
upon the reports of the Commis sioners who were now considering the matter. He took the oppor tunity of congratulating the ship- ping trade upon its prosperity. G. W. Gordon was unanimously The Board of Trade thought such Alacrity
Atlas elected present of the Chamber. alterations in searmen's wages da In his presidental address he asid were considered necessary would ramble the last year would stand out as be better brought about between Britomart one in which there occurred the the two parties concerned than Cadmus greatest shipping disaster ever by any outside interference. Cherub Enown. He hoped that any im-Hear, hear.) There was no wish Clio portant alterations that were pro- on the part of the Board of Trade Fame posed with regard to life-saving to participate against the wishes Flora
Handy appliance would be made the of either party. subject of international dicussion Sole Agents. and arrangements. As to labour SERIOUS REVELATIONS.
unreat, shipowners would have
The Gas Accumulator Co.,reate strife, and they did not Ltd. of the United Kingdom.
LIGHT HOUSES, BUOYS, BEACONS, RAILWAY LIGHTS, AND ALL INSTALLATIONS FOR HOUSES AND SEA CRAFT ARE FURNISHED BY
PURPOSES.
US!
For Prices and Particulars Apply to
ARTHUR NILSSON & CO.,
York Buildings.
Gen, Agents For China,
'SENNET FRERES.
JEWELLERS,
DIAMOND
MERCHANT
AND WATCHMAKERS, HALL MARKED SILVER AND FANCY GOODS,
Hongkong Hotel Buildings.
JUST ARRIVED. Large Consignment Best Turkish Cigarettes.
M.
Government in wages matters: how the Toro Kisen Kaisha hre ewcastle
HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SHIPS ON THE CHINA STATION.
Class Despatch-boat Admiralty tug Gunbuat Gunboat British sloop
Surveying ship 1st class cruiser 1st class cruiser River gunboat 2nd class cruiser
River gunboat Torpedo-boat Torpedo-cost destroyer
14,800
Commander
2,000 Comdr, C. L. Lambe
Master W. West
Tons Guns I.H.P. 1,700 12
Reported at
Hongkong
Hongkong
710 2
900 Lt.-Com. B. E. Prichard
Yangtare
710
2
000 Lt-Comp. W. H. Powell
Yangtze
Janus
River gunboat
Water tank and tug British sloop Torpedo-boat destroyer 380 6 2nd class cruiser 4,350 10. Torpedo bost destroyer 295 G Torpedo-boat destroyer 280 1st class oruiser- 9,000 816
1,070 300
4
1,400 Comdr, H. Willi.u.s
Shanghai
300 Master H. Smith
Hongkong
1,070
6
1,400 Comdr. Mokenzie, D.8.0. Hongkong
5,700 Lt.-Com. Wilkinson
Hongkong
8
14
4
7,000 Capt. C. F. Corbett M.V.O... Shanghai. 4,000 Lt.Com. F.G. Brickenden West Itiver 3,900 Lt.Com. Baddam Whetham Hongkong. 22,000 Capt. Allon T. Hunt C.S.I. Hongkong 1,200 Lt.-Com. H. Marryatt Yangtize
1,040
www.k
Capt. F. C. O. Pasco
Hongkong
27,000 Capt. G. C. Cayley
Hongkong
0,800
22,000
Capt. B. II. F. Barttelot.
Hongkong
180 2.
R00
Lt-Com. Alan Dixon
Hongkong
4,800
85 2
385 8
590
River gunboat
85
2
Depotabipfor Submarines 980
River gunboat
85
2
River gunboat.
85
2
Torpedo bont destroyer 350
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Receiving ship
4,650 6
River gunboat
180 2
710 2
Torpedo-boat destroyer
590
7,500 Lt.-Comdr. Maxwell.
Torpedo-bost destroyer Torpedo-hout destroyer L'orpedo-boat destroyer 360 Gunboat
356 t
6,300 Lt.-Com. H. D. Adair-Hall
590
7,500 Com. Seymour
6
5,000 Com. R. Neville
105 2
Gunboat
150
Gunboat
150
2
0.36,
0.37,
0.38,
T.B. 035,
T.B. 036,
T.B. 037,
'T.B. 038,
Kinaba nothing to do with agitators who T.K K-Loses on Short Coal Weight. Merlin
their living by daily efforts
Minotaur Some serious revelations have | Monmouth want any interference by the been made in San Francisco of Moorhen They had shown and would con- been robbed by dishonest en-Nightingale tinue to show a fair and concilia-gineers, who have charge! for Otter tory spirit to the men, but they coal never used on the ships. Ribble would deal with them, and would Some partioalsrs of the 'scandal Robin not be coerced by outside in-are revealed by the San Francisco Rosario fluence. It was satisfactory to Chronicle" of the 22nd ultimo, Sandpiper
Snipe ALSO ACETYLENE GAS FOR WELDING AND LIGHTING note that the Government were which says:-
alive to the interests of British.i Eager to learn the extent Taku ship-owners with regard to the of the overcharging of his Tamar
shown Tesl company for coal ag Panama Canal.
by the Federal Government's Thistle Boys for the Sea. He was glad that the ship-examination of the books of the Usk ping Federation, at its last Western Fuel Company, General Virago Council meeting, decided that Manager W.E. Avery, of the Toyo Welland every vossel should carry a Kisen Kaisha, called on Treasury Whiting certain number of apprentices or Agent W. H. Tidwell in the Widgeon boy sailors. That was a matter Custom-honse yesterday. As WoodcockTM which the Chamber must loal with Avery expressed it later, he ex-Woodlark Tel. 634 themselves. He did not think that peoted to learn that his company any form of subsidy was either had paid for some coal it had necessary or desirable, but he did never received, but his "breath think it was the duty of the was taken away from him" when Government to ufford boys the Government investigator, in desirous of becoming sailors o his usual mild way, informed him similar form of technical educa-that the loss by the Japanese tion to that which the Govern-company figured in the neigh- ment provided fo: almost every bourhood of $25,000 for the last other industry. It was somewhat six years. romarkable that this country, The investigation into the losses rolying as it did on the mercantile of the Government, the Toyo Kisen Kaiser Franz marine for its very existence, had Kaisho, the Oceanic Steamship no sort or kind of departmental Company and other concerne is provision for the education of still under way. No estimates boys for sen service. even in the have been asked for by any one, Dapleix ** elementary form. What the Gov-with the exception of Avery, and Kleber orament should do was to create have not been made.
Lecidee schools or departments in schools The examination of the books, | Argus at every port throughout the however, has gone far enough to Vigilante country, where a boy might be show the investigators that the Peiho instructed in affairs connected Government is the smallest loner af with the son.(Hear, hear.) all. During the past six years the The prosperity of the ship books are said to show that Uncle ping trade was lue to 8am bas paid about $13,000 several causes, In the firet in drawbacks, that should not place, although itmigh: bag'ringe have been paid. According to to say so, strikes, by creating a law, a steamship company is en- shortage of tonnage, were respon- tiled to 10 cents a ton on all im- sible in a great measure. Thon, ported coal shipped from here in again, a great change in several American bottoms. That is call-{ of the trades, such as the Argon-ed a drawback. tire wheat trade, had accurred, Short Weight Profits.
In Tins of 100, 50 and 20.
Cork Tipped. Gold Tipped and Plain. TURCO-EGYPTIAN
TOBACCO STORE.
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"LADIES HAIR DRESSERS. HONGKONG HOTEL BUILDINGS. '
D. CHELLARAM. THE BEST SILK STORE. EMBROIDERIES, MALTESE AND RARE
CHINESE LACES.
.
FILIPINO BARBER SHOP, and, further, the natural growth High officials of the Federal
THE BEST IN THE COLONYL Come to us for AMERICAN Electric Massage I
HAIR DRESSING.'
TRY
OUR NEW SHAMPODING
AND
31, Des Voeux Road.
BON TON STORE.
JUST ARRIVED!
A NICE Assortment of Summer Materials. Volles, Zephyr's
Mousselines, Etc.
35 cents and Upwards. THE BESTI HILL BERGDAHL & CO.
SOLE. Manufacturers of AQUA HILLA!
BEST purveyors of Zoedone, Gluger Beer, all Aerated Waters, and Cordials.
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Gunboat
12. 22,000 Capt. Frederick A. Powlett Hongkong
240 Lt.-Comdr. M. Murray Yangtsze
8,300 Lt.-Com.E,T.R. Chambers Canton. 7,500 Lt.-Com. E.J.G, Mackinnon Hongkong
240 Lt.-Comdr. Nash
West River 1,400 Lt.-Comdr. N. E. Archdale Hongkong
240 Lt.-Com. I. S. Hutton
Hongkong 240 Lt.-Com. Maurice Leslie Yangtaze 6,000 Gunner W. H. Ryder Hongkong
Com. R. H. Anstruther O.M.G Hongkong 800 Lt.-C. Hon.Guy Stepford
Yangtaze
900 Lt.-C. H.R.N. Cotrell Dormer Yangtaze
Canton
Hongkong
Hongkong
Hongkong
Shanglui
800 Lt.-Comdr. J. C. Barrett Upper Yaagtsza 500 Lt.-Com. M. B. Blackwood Yangtare 500 Lt-Comdr. Lloyd.
Lt.-Com. Godfrey Herbert Hongkong. Lt.-Com. A. A. L. Fenner Hongkong.
Lt-Com. J. R. A.Codrington Hongkong.
Lt-Com. Handley
West River.
Lt. Com. Stilaman
Lt.-Com. Nicol,
Hongkong.. Hongkong.
Lt.-Com. H. W. Seymour, Hongkong.
Flagship of "Admiral Sir A. L. Winsloo, K.O.B., C.V.O., C.M.G. Commander-in-Chief. FOREIGN MEN-OF-WAR ON THE china and JAPAN STATION.
10,014 30 20,000 Capt. Vergos.
9,700 12 19,600 Capt. Gourta
Joseph I Armoured cruiser
4,000 45 8,000 Capt. Flauta
French.
Armoured cruiser Armoured cruisor Gunboat,
River gunboat
Gunboat
Gunboat
}..
Dondard de Lagree, Gunboat
Shanghai
Shanghai
Hongkong
645 10
1,000 Lieut. Vandier
Saigon
180
B
570 Lieut. Dordat
Canton
123 7 130
500 Lieut. de Jervillier
Canton
Lient. Collin
Tongka
Lient. Dupuy Datemps Tchong-kin
Submarine Sabmarine
Lieut. Boluix
Saigon
Saigon
*
Armoured gunboat
Destroyer
1,708 10 350 7
1,700
Lieut. Guillaume-Louis Saigon 303 Lieut. Aurillac
Suigon
Destroyer
Destroyer
Destroyer
130 7 307
Capt. de Frigate Rouisen Hougkoog. 300 Comdr, do Marquessae Baigon
Surveying ship
1,625.10
300 9,000 Com. Voisin
Baigon
Saigon
**Flagship of Rear-Admiral Colloch de Kerillis, Commander-in-Chief, the French China Station.
Lynx Protee Styx Frondo
d'Iberville Pietalet
Mousquet Manche
• Flagship of Commodore Bousicaut, Commanding the local defence Indo Chins,
Emden" Gneisenaa IItie
of the population had necessitated service declared yesterday that it a greater supply. He would not would he proved that the profits be sufficiently vonturezomo to of the indicated coal company on predict a long continuance of the short weights would mount up
Jaguar present prosperity, but he did not to the amazing figure of $3,600,-
Leipzig hesitate to any that with the 000 for the past nine years,
Lucha higher cost of working the vessels Pending the completion of the they must have a higher standard exhaustive examination now be-Nurabarg of freight, and he believed that ing made of the Western Frol Otter would be substantially in favour there was no way of determining the margin for some time to come books, the men in charge declared Scharnborst
S. 90. Taku of the shipowner.-(Clieera) what the losses of the stearaship
Neutral Jurisdiction over Dar- companies and othere might be. Tiger
danelles and Bosphorus. The matter of the local sale of Tsingtau
Vaterland The meeting considered a num-coa) had not been gone into at all, ber ofresolutions brought forward General Manager Avery waa by shipowners organisations. given the information that the Calabria One regretting the passage by the short weights on the Nippon Commonwealth Parliament of the maru, Chiyo-maru, Amorica- Australian Navigation Act and maru and other liners of the Adamastor arging the Government to take Japanese fleet averaged about 10 Macao. aepa to prevent it coming into per cent. In one instance the Patris force was carried on the motion Chiyo was supposed to take out of Mr. Glanville (London),second- 1340 tons, when, as shown by ed by Mr. W. H. Brown (Liver-the books, it only really bad pool). Mr. George Renwick, on 1,200 tons to burn on the long A-2. The above annual competitions Washington, April 10-Willis behalf of the North of England voyage across the Pacio have been concluded at Aldershot. Luther Moore, ohief of the United Steame up Owners Asection, Payments to Engineers. The entries for the six weights States weather. bureau, Las been brought forward a motion in During the proceedings of the A-7 were both large and representa summarily dismissed from office favour of the establishment of a Federal Grand Jury preceding Albany tive, and a feature of the boxing, by President Wilson. The chief neutral jurisdiction over the Dar the returning of true bills against Bainbridge most of which proved of excellent executive gives as his reason the danelles and Bosphorus. This ollicials and employes of the Barry quality, was the fact that Clifton fact that he has evidence showing was seconded by Mr. D. Radcliffe Western Fuel Company, testi- Callao
beyond the possibility of a doubt, (Cardiff)ind approved. A motion mony was given and the entries Chauncey The following wore the reulte int Mr. Moore was engaged, in an urging the amendment of the shown in the books to the inquisi- Cincinnati
intrigue to secure the position of Workmen's Compensation Act tors of payments of salaries of Dale Heavy weights: C. I. Mackay secretary of agriculture in the was carried, as also were others the engineers on the Japanese Decatur (Clifton) knocked out V A. Bur-Cabinet-Manila Times. bury (St Paul's).
recognising the ability with liners.
BOXING,
Public School Championships-
tarned out four winners.
of the fuale
Middle weights: W. A. Crobbin
(St. Paul's) bent K. C. Meilersill
(Bedford Grammar) on points.
LATE TELEGRAM.
Dismissed from Office.
The."
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River gunboat Flagship Torpedo-boat Torpedo-boat Gunboat River gunboat
900 12 1,300 900 12 1,300 3,250 24 11,000 000 10 1,350 3,400 22 13,200
11,800 36 26,000 400 8 6,500 280 4 6,000 900 10 1,350,
UNITED STATES VESSELS ATTACHED TO ASIATIC STATION,
German.
Cruiser
3,800 22 13,500 Capt. v. Restorif
Swalow
Armoured cruiser Gunboat
11,600 38 20,000
Captain Bruninghnas
Teingtau
Comdr. v. Gohren
"Shanghai
Gunboat
Cruiser
Gunboat
Cruiser
Comdr. Vausełow- Capt. Babnske ̈· Comdr. Rendemann Capt. Morsberger Capt. Lieut. Firle Capt. Rosing
Tsingtau
Tsingtan
Taingtan
Tsingtau
Yangleze
Shanghai
Capt. Lt. Berrenberg Oblt. z. 8. Claassen Comdr. Bocker
Tsingtau
Tsingtan
Tsingtau
223
River gunboat
223
4 1,300 4
Capt. Lt. Frhr. Spoth v. Schulzburg Canton
500
Oblt. z. 8. Prinz
Shanghai
Italian cruiser
2,145
Com, Sommi Picenardi
Shanghai
Portuguese,
Cruiser Gunboat
1,757
Capt. Anibal de 8. Dios Capt. Martins
Масло
Масво
*Gunboat
700
Capt. Jose de Carvalho Crato Macao
Submarine
Ensign J..McC, Marray
Cavite
A-4
Lieut. E. D. McWhorter
A-6
21
11...
Ensign J. C. Van de Carr
Ensign O. M. Yates
Protected cruiser
3,430 .10
7,500 Commander M. L Bristol
Cruising
f
Torpedo-bout den. forpedo-bont des. Gunboat
420
7
8,000 En-ign H. M. Jones
Cavite
420
7
8,000 Lieut. R. Bill
243 ·8
Canton
420
7.
3,183 11
Davita Oruising
7
7.
020
4.
1,302
8
1,900
B
600 Lt. Com. V. S. Gannon 1,988 Com. G. R. Ya veli 1,100 Lieut. R. V. Lowe
Shunghe Shanghai Cavite
3,990
8
3,000 Lient, E. P. Svarz
Olongapo
4,084
4 5,277. Com. J. V. Chase
243
8
Lieut. B. B. Taylor
Cavite
854 2
1,000 Lieut. 9. W. Wallace
Canton
Repair ship Gunboat Cruiser
3,085 350 4,360 14
Lieut. W. O. Wallace
Cavite
2
208 Lieut. J. J. Hannigan
Shanghai
Gunboat
243 8
1,800 Lt, Com. D. W. Wurtzbaugh Swatow
250 Lieut. G. ✔ Dichanaal.
Shanghai
Oruiser
8,115 14
17,401 Commander H. A. Way Bwatow
Gunbost
370 9 1,302 8
462
208 Lisat, E. Durr · BN:
Shanghai
1,804 Commander J. F. Habbard Hongkong
Torpedo-boat destroyer Protected oruiser
Torpedo-boat destroyer 420
奉
Torpedo-boat destroyer - 420 Gunboat
Gunboat Station' ship Monitor Monitor
Gunbost Bes going-tug
Eleano which the Government had con- According to report, the auor-Holenn ducted the Fanama Canal negotia-mous losses of the Toyo Kisen Mohican tions protesting against the new Kaisha will be taken as a basis Monadnock Soyo Maru" Case. standard of form vision which is for wholesale changes in the per- Monteroy Woltor weights: H. S. Kirk- wood (Clifton) beat G. E. A. Judgment in the "Soyo Maruto come into force in 1014; and sonnel of the company's crews, Pampanga Anderton (Repton) on points. caso was delivered by the Chief demanding the abolition of the Dismissals have been binted at Fiscataqua Light weights: C. A. B. Elliott Justice on the 11th inst after prosent system of imposing light for some time, and, with the de- Pompey
dues apon shipping.
velopments of yesterday, it is Quiros (Clifton) boat D. Wellesley Smith noon the amount awarded to
Government and Shipping. expected the axe will fall. All Rainbow plaintiffs, the Straite Steamship (Dulwich) on pointa,
Feather weights: H. G. Shel- Company, being $24,000 of of the Board of Trade, was one of Japanese,
Mr. Sydney Barton, President the engineers on the liners are Samar
Saratoga don (Haileybury) beat G. F. G. which $2,000 goes to the Cap-the speakers at the annual din Figures will soon be osmpiled, Villalobos
tain and $4,000, to the crow.rer of the Chamber of Shipping. it is said, showing the loss of the Wilmington Gunboat Beos (Worksop) on points.
Coats with the award. The 1 le said the last year had been Government in coal furnished Wompatuok Tag
Bantam weighte: A. M. Mac-
for $134,000.
250 Ensign W. L. Heiberg 8,000 Lieut. F. J. Fletcher 10,000. Com. S. S. Robinson
8,000 Lieut. C. A. Woodruff 8,000 Lieut. B. H. Groon `
Cavite
650 Chief B'awain, P. E. Radcliffe Olongapa
Coll (Clifton) knocked out R. M. claim it will be remembered was me of great responsibilities, Bo to the transports, and revenue U.S.S. Saratoga Flagship Rear-Admiral R. F. Nicholson, Commander-in-Chief, Unita Binja Bear (Bedford Grammar).
far as any blame ould be attached outtore,
sistic Fleal, temporarily