Shipping
CANADIAN PACIFIC
ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE.
From Hongkong
Empress of
India
From Quebec
29th April.
th May.
2nd April.
Monteagle Empress of
Asla
8th April.
16th April.
Allan Linc
All. Steamshiva leave Hongkong at porn. The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and EMPRESS OF ASIA”. to new quadruple screw 21 knot turbine 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 the 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.
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PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON,
"EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
Optional Atlantic Port, £71,10.
." EMPRESS OF INDIA.".
Optional Atlur.tic Port £65
***MONTEAGLE",
THE HONGKONG TELEURAPH, JHURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1914,
Shipping
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
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THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. ·
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
Destination. MARSEILEES,) LONDON-&-AN-|
-TWERP, via Kamo Maru Singapore, Capt. Shimizu Malacca, Penang, { Kashima Maru Colombo, Suez, & Capt. Yugi Port Said,
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Shipping
HONGKONG
LOG BOOK.
Safety at Sea.
Another of the numerus devices for preventing Is of life at sea invented since the Titanio
PHILIPPINES. digator, is described in the
PHILIPPINES
STEAMSHIP CO Sailing date.
For-
Frankfurter Zeitung. Aucording to experts, this will enable ship- wrecked persona to remain sfloat for days. The apparatus is' shaped like a champagne bork. The top is formed by a cone, in which there is a bull's-eye" window, which can be lifted up. in order to eater. The middle portion is composed of an envelope of suitably-treated guil-olnth, provided with two ale vcs. The Electric light Fans in every oabin; competent stewardesses lower portion, a metallia reservoir, is filled with water to prevent carried.
Passengers holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Pactie overturning. The apparatus was Muil B.B. Co., Toyo Kisun Kaisbu, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastern and Australian teated in the fishing harbour at Steamship Co., Ltd.
Steamship. T. . Captains.
Sailling Date
JWEDNES., 8th T. 16,000 Apr. at 10 am.
WEDNES 22nd
Rubi
Zafiro
T. 20,000 Apr. at 10 am.
Awa Maru
[TUESDAY, 7th Capt. Tominaga T. 12,500 (Apr. at noon. Shidzuoka Maru
ĮTUES., 21st Capt. Irizawa. T. 12,500 | Apr., ut noon."
"EMPRESS OF ASIA:”
via
VICTORIA, B.G., and SEATTLE Shanghai,
via Moji, Kobe, Yok kaichi,
and
... Yokohama
SYDNEY. & MEL-
BOURNE, via Tango Maru Manila, Thurs-Capt. T. Sekine
T. 13,500
Island, (Nikko Maru
and | Capt. Takeda
'EMPRESS OF JAPAN," via.
Intermediate sorvice, via Canadian Atlantic port £43, via Boston or New York £45.
Rates quoted above do not include meals and sleeping car across Canada. These, if required, will. be. furnished for £6 additional.
SPECIAL RATES (First Class "only.) allowed to Naval and Military officers/Civil Sorvice employees, Missionaries, etc, etc.
Passengers, purchasing Trans-Pacific Round Trip passage" tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co., or Toyo Kisen Kaisha.
Local and through passengers may, if desired, travel by rail between Ports of call in Japan.
For further information, Maps, Routos, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passage, apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent fur China. Corner of Pedder Street and Praya, opposite Blake Pier.
day Townsville Brisbane CALCUTTA
S'pore,
& Rangoon
WEDNES., 8th Apr. at noon. ƒWEDNES, 6th T. 9,600 1 May, at noon.
JMONDAY,
via) Kanagawa Maru Penang Capt. Machida T. 12,500 (5th Apr.
BOMBAY via Singa-1 Rangoon Maru
}
T. 12,500
(FRIDAY,
pore and Colombo. Capt. Kamoshita T. 12,500 (27th Mar. KOBE & Yokohama Cap Tabusa
Apr. at 11 a.m. Kaga Maru
J THURS., 9th
NAGASAKI, Kobe Nikko Maru
(WED., 8th Capt. R. Takeda T. 9,600.1 Apr. at 11 a.m. 7 Tottori Maru
(FRIDAY, Capt. Moses Sanuki Maru
& Yokohama.
KOBE, (direct)
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD. KOBE, (direct)....) Sapt. Deguchi
APCAR LINE
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.
FASTWARD..
S.S. "Torilla," 5,205 tons, Capt. Swanson, "RN.R. will be des patched for SHANGHAI, KOBE & MOJI on 18th April. ・・
S.S. * Dilwara," 5,378. tous, Capt. Raniage, R.N.R. will be des. patched for SHANGHAI, KOBE & MOJI on 25th April.,
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WESTWARD.
S.S. "Japan," 6,013 tons, Capt. Seddon, will be despatched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALOUTTA on 27th Mur.
S.S. "Dunera," 5,589 tons, Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched as above. Quick Despatch.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry, a duly qualified surgeon.
For fraight or passage, apply to,
Hongkong, Mar. 24th, 1914.
· DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. Agents.
THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
tead Office for the Far East:-16, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONG.
KONG, SHANGHAI: 2-3, Foochow Road.' YOKOHAMA :
32, Wator 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 ISSUED and
CASHED
Chief Office :-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON. E.C.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft" HANSA.”
EAST ASIATIC SERVICE,...
Regular Sailings from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINES via STRAITE and "COLOMBO,
70
Marseilles, Havre, Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Vancouver (B.C.) and Portland (Or.)
Taking Cargo at Through rates to all Earapina North Continental and Belilah Ports, airo Trfoste Listas, Oporto, Genos, and other Stadliaraneen Levantina, Black Baltic Sea and
Ports, add all North and South Amartcan Poris,
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Next Sailings from Hongkong:
OUTWARD.
For Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama :'
.....14th Apr. | Andalusia
15th June. Segovia .....................................11th May. | C. Ferd. Laeisz ....10th July,
Hoerde..
HOMEWARD.
For Havre Bremon & H'burg;
Scandia.......29th Mar, For Mles.D'kirk, R'dam, H'burg; Sachsen....................31st Mar For Havre Emden & Hamburg; Assyria....... 4th April. For Havre B'men & Hamburg; Alesia................. 8th April. For Havre; Bremen & H'burg;
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For Havre & Hamburg;
Brisgavia
10th May. For Hamburg & Antwerp';
Arabia.............15th May.. For Havre, Emden, & Hamburg;
Uckermark... 16th May, For Havre & Hamburg;
+ Cargo only.
T. 10,000 (27th Mar.
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ƒSATURDAY,
T. 12,50) {11th Ar
Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy.
PASSENGER SEASON 1914-
4000 J. Miller
...4000 F. S. MoMurray
T
11
Manila,Mangarin, THURS., 2ud 1 Cebu and Iloilo. | Apr. 4 pm.
Manila,Mangarin, BATUR, 11th
Cebu and Iloilo. Apr. 4p.in.
For Freight or Passage apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS
Hongkong, 26th Mar. 1914,
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN
LIJN.
Regular Fortnightly Service between JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN,
Tron
WILI ingen an de abort
| Geertemu do with most uócessful results. A silor got in it, and it was low red into the water: The craft was forced'nndor water ond overturned, but iminediately Assumed a horizontal position again. The coonpant could open the window and communicate with the outer world. This con- trivance can very easily be install ed on board ship, and keeps ita occupants safe for days, inasmuch as no water can penetrate, The Expected un or aboki · For ..S'HAI ...2nd half Mar. ..............JAVA
...2nd half Mar. domed cover of the apparatus is Tipanas......JAVA...2nd half Mar.
...Ist half Apr.equipped with some twenty rings, ***JAVA ....JAVA...1st half Apr....JAVA ...1st half Apr. by means of which a number of Tjibodas......J_PAN..1st half Apr. ......JAVA_ ...1st half Apr. persons can support themselves. Tillatjap ......JAPAN...lat half Apr. ......JAPAN ...ist half Apr. if necessary. Provisions can also Tjimanoek...S'HAI ...2nd half Apr......JAVA ...2nd half Apr.) be carried" Tjiliwong...JAVA ...2nd balf Apr. ......JAPAN ...2nd half Apr. Tjltaroem "...JAVA“ „1st half May......S'HAI ...1st half May. The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon 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.
York Building,
Stopwat
Tjikini
Tlimahi
Telephone No. 1574
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPÁN · "AND · ́HONOLULU,
Kamo
Kashima
"
FOR EUROPE. Maru 16000 tons sails Wo:lnesday
20000
8th April. 22nd
April.
Tenyo Maru
FOR AMERICA,
"
11
Awa Maru 12500 tons sails Tuesday 7th Shidzuoka
12500
21st For further information apply to Telephone No. 292.
T. KUSUYOTO, Manager.
CHINA NAVIGATION
CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
For
BAIPHONG
Steamers. Sungklang
W WEI, C'FOO & TIENTSIN Kuelchow SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan SHANGHAI ..................
.....Shaohsing MANILA,CEBU & ILOILO... Taming SHANGHAI
....Anhui SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Yingchow MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Tean
To Sail. 27th Mar. at 10 a.m. 28th Mar. at 4 p.m. 128th Mar, at m'night
31st Mar. at noon 31st Mar. at 4 p.m. 2nd Apr. at.4 p.m. ...4th Apr. at m'night 7th Apr. at 4 p.m.
DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. "S.S. LINTAN "and" 8.8. SANUI". ETMANILA LINE.-Twin Sorew Steamera "Chinhua," "Taming" and "Tean," Excellent saloon accommodation amidahips; electric fans fitted; extra ataterooms on deck aft on "Taming" & "Tean." SHANGHAI LINE-The Twin Screw steamera "Anhui" "Chenan," and the S.S. "Liangchow," "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 Yangtsze and Northern China Ports,
The steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkrong and Canton.
Sailings from
Steamor..
Nippon Maru* Hongkong Maru" Shinyo Marui Chiyo Maru
Hongkong Subject to change without notice.
Displacement
Leave Hongkong.
Tons & Speed 22,000-21 knots Sat.,
11,000- 18 knots · Wed., 11,000 18 knots Sat.,
4th Apr. 8th
"
25th "
22,000 - 21 knots from Kobe 11th May. 22,000 21 knots Tues.,
19th May.
Passengers by this steamer may travel per S.S. Hongkong Maru
via Manila. Omitting Shanghai.
All steamers will be despatched at NOON. First Class to London......£71.10. Retura (6 months:) £120. First Class to New York....£60.
£96,10.
San Francisco £45. "
£68. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacifio Mail 8.8. Co., or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Pasifio Railway Co.
Special Rates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERYANTS, MISSION. ARIES oto.
ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal Mail lines and the Trans-berlan Railway.
Fassongora may travel by Railway between ports of call in Japan free of charge.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
Vis JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, SALINA CRUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.
Thonse by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES... For Full Farticulars as to Fassage & Freight, apply to
S. MORIMOTO, Agent! Telephone No. 291
THE EASTERN
KING'S BUILDINGS."
& AUSTRALIAN STEAMERS Co., LIMITED. MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
VIA MANILA.
MAIL SCHEDULE
(SUA FUT TO MODIFICATION).
Arrive Hongkong
Steamers.
N.B. Passengers must embark before midnight or Saturday for Eastern ........ the Sunday morning sailings. A Company's launch leaves Murray Aldenham.......................................... Pier at 10 o'clock every Saturday night.
Those steamers land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the incon- venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.
Reduced Fares: Single $45: Return $75. For Freight or Passages apply to
Telephone No. 36
Hongkong 26th Mar., 1914. |-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agents
Empire...
· from Australia..
14th Mar. 4th April. 2nd May.
Leave Hongkong for Australia.
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Ship's Engineer's Death," A young Dutchman named Noliaans, fourth engineer on the steamer Van der Capellen, met with a shooking death last week. The vessel had reached the An- mbas, and was anchored off Tarempa. The deceased and several colleagues took the op portunity to have a dip. They were swimming about, some distance. from the ship. The deceased was farthest away, and bia companions were suddenly startled to hear him shrieking." loudly. They then saw Lim struggling, with the sea in his vicinity red with blood.. A sam pen readily came his assistance, and he managed to clamber sboard; when it was discovered hat one leg bad been bitten off close to the thigh by a shark, With all haste he was taken to he steamer, but he enon expired from loss of blood.
He was buried ashore a Tarempa,
The Aquatadia. When the Aquatania, ..., the Cunard's latest leviathan; is ready to sail on its maiden voy- age this spring, her owners declare that she will be the most perfect vessel that ever left a shipyard. While many millions have been exponded to make her the staun chest abip afloat," a fortune hao been invested in the decoration and furnishing of the numerons rcial hal's, the dining saloons ind the R mi awimming pool, Among the 10y incovations on this fating place will be a specially constructed dance floor and an art gallery that will con- tain several masterpiec
Yacht's Picture.
+
The team yacht Niagara, which was recently in Singapore harbour with its millionaire wner, Mr. Joseph Laiter, on board, had in the music room a Ontch painting said to be worth $10,000 Many attempts have heen made to steal it, and even when the Niagara was in Eastern 9th April at 10 a.m. waters, constant watch-waS 1st. May
kept for international thieves, 29th May
who seem remarkably determined by the way they have returned time after time to endeavour to parloin it.ikea
The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en suring & Plentiful supply of Ice, French Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity: All State-Rooms have Electric Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.
For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
Agente
Olympic's Big Sister. The new White Star liner Britannic has been launched from Mecera Harland and Wolff's yard Belfast. Her dimensions are: 000ft 04ft.;
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD. Might from ke broth, galeg
HONGKONG AGENCY.
W
Homeward Bound.
(Odessa via usual ports of call.)
The 8.8. Vladimir, 5,620 R.T., Commander Kamichansky,
Tsingtau,
Schwarzburg ... 19th May. Vladivostok on the 21st Day of March, via Nagasaki and For Havre, Bremen & H'burg; and can be expected at Hongkong about the 6th Day of April."
Alimark
....1st June, For Rotterdam & Hamburg; '\
Brasilla
6th June.
Bayern ...... ...23rd April." For M'les, H'burg & Antwerp;
Belgravia 28th April.
For Further Particulars, apply to-
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Offoe.
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.
Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers, Electric Light. Excellent Cuisine.badger
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND; FOOCHOW RETTEN.
(Occupying 9 to 10 days.) ga Captain John H Leaving.
Steamships. left Haitan,
Halyang Haiching:
Haimun.
For Freight, Passage and further particulars, apply to d
Hongkong, 24th Mar., 1914,
Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF, Agent, fotel Manslour, 3rd Floor, Rooms Ne, 12a & 16.
Tel. No. 1224.
|J. S. Roach ........FRIDAY, 27th Mar. at 11 a.m. A. E. Hodgins... TUESDAY, 31st Mar. at 11 am. W. C. Passmore. FRIDAY, 3rd Apr. at 11 am.
FOR SWATOW.
A
keel navigating bridge, 104ft. Bin;; gross tonnage, 50,000; passenger accommodation for 2,500 (790 first class), and crew accommodation for 950. The Britannio is not eo large as the new fanard liner, Annitania and the German liners Vaterland (50,000 tons), and Imperator (52,000 tons), but it is claimed she is the strongest ever launched, and she has the greatest beam, The tonnage of the Olympic is about 45,000 Forty-eight of the largest size of lifeboats yet 'mede
J. W. Evans SUNDAY, 29th Mar. at 10 a.m. Halmun....... J. W. Evans WEDNES., 1st Apr. at 11 am.are being fitted, and two of there
Steansers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near Blake Pier. For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglas Lapraik & Co. General Manager.
have powerful encinés, au boun
Oysters, Fresh, Fried or Stewed Findon Haddocks, Kinners &c.;
ALEXANDRA CAFE,