Shipping
CANADIAN PACIFIC
ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE,”
From Hongkong
Empress of
From Quebec.
29th April.
India
2nd April.
Monteagle
8th April.
Empress of AsiaTMTM
-16th-April.
Allan Line
9th May.
All Steamships leave llongkong at noon.. The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and "EMPRESS OF ASIA" are.new quadruple screw 21 'knot turbinė steamers, of 16,850 tona gross, 30,625 displacement, the finest, fastest and most luxurious on the Pacific.
The direct route to Canada, United States and Europe, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki (through thío Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama and Victoria, B.C.
All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic Fleets are equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.
PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON.
** EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
Optional Atlantic Port, £71.10.
"EMPRESS OF INDIA,
Optional Atlantic Port £65
MONTEAGLE".
Intermediate service, via Canadian Atlantic port £43, vin Boston or New York £45.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH
Shipping
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP 00,
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-
ہو
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
Destination. MARSEILLES, |
LONDON & AN- TWERP, via Katori Maru Singapore, Capt. Murai Malacca, Penang, Kamo Maru Colombo, Suez, & Capt. Shimizu Port Said.....sitare
VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE Shanghai, via Moji, Kobe, Yot- kalohi, and Yokohama
20 1914:
Shipping
HONGKONG
LOG BOOK:
Tax on Vessels.. The long-pending quithan t imposing a tax on vasels iegių
PHILIPPINES. Lered in the Kalung Leased
PHILIPPINES
Sailling Date! Steamship. T.
Captains..
2
A
WEDNES, 25th | Zaliro T. 20,000 Mar. at 10 a.m.
WEDNES, 8th Rubi T. 16,000. Apr. at 10 am.
Yokohama Maru
(TUES, 24th - T. 12,500 (Mar., at noon. Capt. Wada Awa Maru
TUESDAY, 7th Capt. Tominaga T. 12,500 1 Apr, at noon.
"EMPRESS OF ASIA."
vin
EMPRESS OF JAPAN," via
SYDNEY & MEL- BOURNE, via Manila, Thurs day
Island, Townsville and Brisbane CALCUTTA via S'pore," Penang & Rangoon
Tango Maru
Capt. T. Sekine T. 13,500 Nikko Maru Capt. Takodn T. 9,600
[WEDNES., 8th (Apr. at noon.
WEDNES, 6th May, at noon.
Rates quoted above do not includo meals and sleeping car across Canada. These, if required, will be furnished for 46 additional.
SPECIAL RATES (First Class only allowed to Naval and Military officers, Civil Service employees, Missionarios, etc, etc.
Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Round Trip passage tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by the steamers of the Paciflo Mail S.S. Co., or Toyo Kisen Kaisha.
Local and through passengers inay, if desired, travel by rail between Ports of call in Japan.
For further information, Maps, Routes, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passage, apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, Gonerai Traffic Agent for China. Corner of Pedder Street and Praya,,opposite Blake Pior.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
་
APCAR LINE.
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.
EASTWARD.
S.S. "Thongwa." 6,298 tons, Capt. Robins, will be despatched for YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI on 24th Mar.
S.S. "Torilla," 5,205 tons, Capt. Swanson, R.N.R. will be des- patched for SHANGHAI, KOBE & MOJI on 18th April.
WESTWARD.
S.S. "Japan," 6,013 tons. Capt. Seddon, will be despatched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA on 25th Mar
S.S." Dunera," 5,589 tone, Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched as above on 29th Mar.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.
apply to,
For freight or passage, a
Hongkong, Mar. 20th, 1914,
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.
Agente.
THOS. COOK & SON,
Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Head Office for the Far East:-16, DES VEUX ROAD, HONG KONG. SHANGHAI: 2-3, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA:
32, Water Street. MANILA: Manila Hotel.
TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates.
LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES 188UED and CASHED Chief Office:-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C..
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft “HANSA."
RAST ASIATIC SERVICE, Regular Sailings from JAPAN, OHINA and PHILIPPINES via STRAITS and COLOMBO,
TO
Marseilles, Havre. Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And, from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Vancouver (B.O.) and Portland (Or.)
Taklog Cargo at Through tater to all European North Continental and British Ports, alan Trimite Lisboa, Oporto, Canon, and other Mediterranean Levantino, Black Baltic Sea and Ports, and all Nowth and South American Part
Next Sailings from Hongkong :
Sudmark ..... Hoerde....
OUTWARD.
For Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama:
......20th Mar, | Andalusia ..................15th June.
.....
| BOMBAY via Singa-1
pore and Colombo.J KOBE & Yokohama}
Mishima Maru Cap', 'Sommer
NAGASAKI, Kobs) Nikko Maru
WEDNES., 25th T. 16,000 Mar. at 11 a.m.
JWED., 8th
& Yokohama Capt. R. Takeda T. 9,600 (Apr. at 11 am. SHANGHAI, Moji
and Kobe
TUESDAY,
SHANGHAI, Kobel Kirin Maru.
& Yokohama Capt. Machida T. 12,500 (24th Mar.
+ Cargo only.
f Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy.
PASSENGER SEASON 1914.
FOR EUROPE.
Katori Maru 20000 tons sails Wednesday Komo
16000 20000
Kashima
J 11
"#
"1
»
· FOR AMERICA. Yokohama Maru 12500 tone saile
12500 Awa Shidzuoka
12500
id
19
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For further information apply to Telephone No. 292.
STEAMSHIP CO.
'For
Sailing duto.
(Manila,Mangarin, -MON., 23rdzi 1 Cebu and Iloilo. Mar. 4 p.m.
4000 F. 8. M6Murray ...... 4000 J. Miller Electric Light Fans in every cabin; competent stewardesses carried.
Passengers holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Pacific Mail 8.8. Co., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastern and Australlun Steamship Co., Ltd.
Territory has been decido l in the afirmativo and will be put into force on April I next, the begin- niug of the next fiscal year, says the Manchuria Daily News, No further particulara are, however, available.
O.S.K. Dairen-Formosa Service.
To view of the increasing do-- mand for bean cake at Formoso,
ƒ Manils,Màngarin, THURS,, 2nd | the Osaka' Shosen Kaisha, in-
Cebu and Iloilo | Apr. 4 p.m. entisfied that the "present" two steamers are inadequate to cope with the situation. In consequence, the Company now contemplates to substitute. either the Bajun"Maru or "the Choshun Marn now on the tservice with a steamer of 3,000 tons clase from the Yokohama-Takao line;'
For Freight or Passage apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS
Hongkong, 16th Mar. 1914.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPANE
Vecomm
LIJN.
Regular Fortnightly Service between ... JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN
From
Expected on be about for
Afloat In an Open Boat.
A graphic story of how the crew of the Liverpool barque. Battle Abbey escaped fire in mid- ocean has reached · Queenstown from Astoria, Oregon. The barque caught fire while on a voyage from Nowcastle, New South Wales, Will see on or about to Vancouver, British Columbia, Tjibodas......JAVA 1st half Már, ........JAPAN ...let half Mar. and the captain, his wife, two Tjitaroem...S'HAI 1st half Mar...JAVA.1st half Mar. children, and six'osa members of Tlimanoek...JAVA...2nd half-Mar, .....S'HAI ...2nd half Mar. The crew were rescued by the Tjilatjap.....JAVA...2nd half Mar.....JAPAN Tipanas......JAVA 2nd half Mar.......S'HAI Tjikini S'HAI...2nd half Mar....JAVA Tjimahi
...JAVA 1st half Apr... JAVA Tjillwong.JAVA...2nd half Apr. ......JAPAN ...2nd half, Apr. The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and bave accommodation for a limited number of salcon passengers, and will take cargo to all Ports in Netherlands-India on through B/L..
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. Telephone No. 1574
York Building, 146
2nd half Mar. German barque Eilbek after three
.....2nd half Mar.
2nd half Mar.lays and two nights in an open 1st half Apr. bost. The two first lifebots got at were smaske by heavy seas But against the vessel's sile, the third got away a lely with twenty occupants, making for the American coast, 300 mile ; distant. | During the first day and night awa terrible gale blow, and the boat was swept by seas, drenobing to the skin the captain's two little daughters who clung for protect- ion to their mother. It was not until noon on the third day that the German barque Edbek picked up the boat.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO_LINE -
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN AND HONOLULU.
4
Sailings from Hongkong-Subject to change without notice.
'Steamer.
Displacement
Leave Hongkong.
25th March 8th 22nd
April.
*
Tuesday
24th March, 7th April. 21st
Tenyo Maru
22,000 21 knots Sat.,
4th Apr..
Nippon Marut
11,000-18 knots Wed.,
8th
Hongkong Maru*
11,000 18 knots Sat.,
25th
Shinyo Maru}
22,000-21 knots froni Kobe 11th May,
Chiyo Maru :
1. KUSUFOTO, Menager.
22,000-21 knots Tues., 19th May,
CHINA NAVIGATION
CO., LTD.
TÓ
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
Steamers.
For
To Sail. SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU.....Kanchow..............21st Mar, at m'night MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Chinhua ...24th Mar. at 4 p.m. SHANGHAI
...24th Mar. at 4 p.m. 26th Mar. at noon ...26th Mar. at 4 p.m. ......28th Mar. at m'night
31st Mar; at 4 p.m. -
SHANGHAI
.Liangchow WWEI, OFOU & TIENTSIN Kueichow
..........................Luchow SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan MANILA.CEBU & ILOILO...Taming
Anhui "
DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly.
"S.S. LINTAN "and" 8.8. BANUI *** E7MANILA LINE.-Twin Sorow Steamers "Chinhus,'
"Taming" and "Tean." Excellent saloon sccommodation amidships; electric fana fitted; extra staterooms on deok aft on "Taming" & "Tean," EZSHANGHAI LINE-The Twin Screw steamers "Chenan," and the 8.8. "Llangchow," "Luchow" and "Yingchow" having excellent accommodation with Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms and 'Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangteze and Northern China Ports,
The steamers leaving Hongkong on Bundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton..
N.B.-Passengers must embark before midnight on Saturday for the Sunday morning.anilings. A Company's launch leaves Murray Pior at 10 o'clock every Saturday night.
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These steamers land passengers in Shanghaf, avoiding the incons venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.
Reduced Fares-Single $45: Return $75)
For Freight or Passages-apply to
Tölephone No; 36
Hongkong 20th Mar., 1914.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agents
Tons & Speed-
Lighthousemen's Fato.
On Oadiep water Island (Shal low Water Isle) in the Gaspar Straits, north of Binks; stanne lighthouse in the charge of two native keepers and a coolie.
two Recently, the
koopera
tPassengers by this steamer may travel per B.S. Hongkong Maru:left their posts and went out :
via Manila. Omitting Shanghai.
All steamers will be despatched at NOON, First Class to London....£71.10. Return (6 months) £120. First Class to New Yorka............£60...
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£96.10. £68.
San Francisco £45. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return lokets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacific Mall S.8. Co., or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Paolfio Railway Co.
ARIES stc.
Special Eates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION. ROUND THE WORLD Tickets Issued in Connection with all the Principal Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
charge,
Passangers may travel by Rallway between ports of call in Japan free of
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
fishing in a praw. A atcong current carried the couple out to sen and nothing " further" wAS heard of them. At nightfall the coolie tried his best to set the machinery for the light working, bat unaccustomed to the work he did not succeed and passing vessels were for a whole week surprised to see only a stove lamp hanging from the tower in place of the usual brilliant light. News
Vin JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, SALINA having been brought to Priok, |CRUZ,'CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAÍSO.
Thence by TRANS AN DEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES. For Full Particulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
5. MORIMOTO, Agent.! Telephone No. 291
KING'S BUILDINGS, The Eastern
and
Steamers Co., Mail Servise to
via Manila.
Australian Limited.
ustraila
MAIL SCHEDULE (SUPJECT TO MODIFICATION).
Rteamers,
St. Albans commer Eastern se..ivi. Aldenham Empire................................
KOP, PPARATUKSYON
Arrive Hongkong from Australia.
14th Mar. 4th April, 2nd May
Leave Hongkong for Australia.
the Government launch Java was sent to the lighthouse to in- vestigate. She returned with the tule of the tragedy, and two other keepers have now been sent in
place of the unfortunate men. | All se rch for them having proved fruitless, they have 'been given up
for lost.
Motor Boat Construction,
་
During the year 1013 the China General Engineering Co now called the China Engineer ing Co., has been very successful in turning out various descrip- ions of motor boats, ranging from pleasure or sporting boats for use in up-country trips to the 20th Mar.at 10 a heavier built type used for tow- 9th April at
Ling purposes. The total number 1st May
of launches built by this firm for 29th May
the year in question amounted to nine which, in view of the unset led conditions obtaining during the year, ia very fair. The in- dications for the present year are, however, more favourable, eleven boats being already under son
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The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en suring a Plentiful supply of Ice, French Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity. All State-Rooms have Electric Fans. A duly qualified Dootor and Stewardess are carried,
For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
Agsata.—
1th Apr. 4. Ferd. Lacisz 10th July. RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
Segovia.......11th May. I
HOMEWARD,
For B'ton & New York Suez Canal | For Havre & Hamburg;
Ambria........ .....25th Mar, Erlsgavia.......10th May.
For Havre Bremen & H'burg :"
HONGKONG AGENCY,
Homeward Bound,
(Odessa via ports of call.)
For Hamburg'& "Antwerp; Scandia ............... 29th Már. Arabia.................
...15th May. For M'los, D'kirk, R'dam, H'burg For Havre, Emden, & Hamburg;
The 8.8. Vladimir, 5,620 R.T: Commander Kamnichansky, is Sachsen 31st Mar. Uckermark...... 16th May expected to arrive here about the end of March, or beginning of For Havre Emden & Hamburg; For Havre & Hamburg
April, 1914. 4th April.
Schwarzburg 19th May, For Havre B'mon & Hamburg;For Havre, Bremon & H'burg;
Alesia... 9tly April. Altmark ..................... 1st June, For Havre, Bremen & H'burg, For Rotterdam & Hamburg;
Brasilia.
6th June
Assyria
Bayern
...23rd April.
For M'les, Eburg & Antwerp:/
Belgravia 28th April
For Further Particulars, apply tow
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Offoo.
Outward Boundar (Vladivostok via Nagasaki)
The S.S. Yaroslav, 4,494 R.T., Commander Lokhmatoff, ie expected to arrive here about the 21st day of March, 1914
NB-This outward steamer on the way to Nagasaki and Vladivostok will call at Hongkong if the room permits.p
For Freight, Fassage and further particulars, apply to
Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF" Agent, Bangkang, 18th Feb., 1914.
Hotel Mangione, Tel. No. 1121,4-
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.
st: action so that the prospect for the year's working is distinctly good. Among the boats being built are one 48ft. cabin launch engin ed with one heavy type Kelvin engine, for which engine the company are agenta, two motor towing launches for: Russia, two
Highost Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the motor inspection launches for the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers. Electric Light Excellent Cuisine.
FOR SWATOW, AMAY AND FOOOTIOW RETURN, (Occupying 9 to 10 days.)
Steamships.
Captain Leaving. A. E. Hodgins... FRIDAY, 20th Mar. at 11 am. WC. Passmoro. TUESDAY, 24th Mar. at 11a.m.
Russion Customs, while the re maining sir boats are being built to private order. The motor in stalled in all the above boate, Halyang
Kalvin thus indicating the with only one exception, is the Halching
amount of favour this type of Haltan..
J. S. Roach .... FRIDAY, 27th Mar. at 11 a.m. Haimun
***FOR SWATOW. China.
engine; bre gained for itself in J. W. Evans SUNDAY, 22nd Mar. at 10 a.m. Halmun “JW Evans... WEDNES., 25th Mar. at 11 am.
Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near
Blake Piler. For Freight and Passage, apply to
1.
Douglas Lapralk & Co.
General Maniagora,
Oysters, Fresh, Tried or Stowed Findon Haddocka, Kippera &o;
ALEXANDRA QATE!