SHIPPING
CANADIAN PACIFIC
ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE.
From Hongkong
Sailings Temporarily Withdrawn
All Steamships leave. Hongkong at noon.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1914.
The EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and "EMPRESS OF ASIA" are new.quadruple screw 21 knot turbine steamers, of 16,850 tons 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.O.
All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic Fleets ara equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.
PASSAGE RATES. HONGKONG TO LONDON, "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.
SHIPPING
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
Destination.
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-
MARSEILLES
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
AND LONDON, SFushimi, Maru vis Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Buez & Port Said
VICTORIA, B.C.. and SEATTLE via S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Yokkaichi, and Yokohama ...............
Capt. Irizawa §Hirano Maru Capt, Fraser,
Tamba Maru Capt. Nagasuye
"EMPRESS OF ASIA,"
via
Optional Atlantic Port, £71.10..
SYDNEY & MEL-
"EMPRESS OF JAPAN," visa
BOURNE, via Nikko Maru
" EMPRESS OF INDIA,!'
Optional Atlantic Port £85.
vis Canadian
"MONTBAULE”, Intermediate service, Atlantic port £43, vis 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 Service employees, Missionaries, etc., etc. Passengers purchasing" Trans-Paoifio Round Trip passage tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail B.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, Routes, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passage, apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China. Corner of Pedder Street and Praya, opposite Blake Pier.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.
EASTWARD,
"The S.8. “Orissa," tons 5,436, Capt. Redfuen, R.N.R., will be. despatched for Shanghai, Vladivostock, Kobal and Moji on the 19th Jan., 1915.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.
Far freight or passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. Agents.
Hongkong, Dec, 26, 1914.
SHIPPING
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Regular Fortnightly Service between
JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.
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Exracted on or about
- WIE 19676 OR De short
Tjipanas......JAV...2nd half Dec. ......JAPAN 1st half Jan." Tikembang JAVA...1st half Jat. SHAI 1st half Jan. Sailing Date Tilkin! S'HAI 1st half Jan......JAVA ist half Jan.
Tiltaroem
......JAPAN 1st half Jan. Tilmanoek...JAVA ...2nd half Jan. ......S'HAI..2nd half Jan. Tiibodas......JAVA ...2nd half Jan.......JAPAN...1st half Feb. Tiwong ...JAVA 1st half Feb.......JAPAN 2nd half Feb.
{WEDNES, 30th T. 25,000 Dees at 10 a.m.
JWEDNES., 13th T. 16,000.1Jan., at 10 a.m.
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LOG BOOK.
New Steamship Lines Coming.
Mr. J. P. T. Walon, of the Royal Netherland and Rotterdam Lloyd steamship companies, has nu- nounced to Governor-General Harrison at Manile that the lines which he represents intend to establish a regular trade route betreen Java and New York via Manila and the Panama Canal. It is expected, saya the Cablenews, that at least one ship a month will be placed upon this run and some of those vessela'are as large as twelve thousand tons. There companies have recently taken over the Standard Oil contracta
"The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and for transportation from New York have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers. All to the Dutch East Indies. stormors oarry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through Motor Ships and East Asiatic Co., rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia."
For particulare of Freight and Passage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Tork Building.
JTUES., 12th 12,500 (Jan, at noon.
Telephone No. 1574
WED., 13th
Manila, Thurs-Capt. R. Takeda T. 9,600 (Jan. at noon.
ƒ WEDNES., 10th day
Island, Hitachi Maru Townsville and Capt. Sato T. 13,500 Feb. at noon.
Brisbane
CALOUTTA
via
S'pore, Penang
& Rangoon
BOMBAY via Sings-1 Rangoon Maru
póro and Colombo. KOBE
Capt. Nomura
T. 5,000 131st Dec.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN AND HONOLULU,
Sailings from Hongkong Subject to change without notice..
Displacement
Tons & Speed
Leaves Hongkong
22,000-21 knots Tuesday, 5th January.
22,000 - 21 knots
11,000 18 knots
[WED, 30th
Steamer.
T. 10,000 Dec.
THURSDAY,
T. 13,500
[THURS., 31st"
Dec. (WEDNES., 18th
Jan. at 5 p.m..
Chiyo Maru Tenyo Maru Nippon Marut
Shinyo Maru
22,000 - 21 knots
ƒ FRIDAY, 1st
Steamers via Shanghai leave at noon, Steamers via Manila leave at 10.30 a.m.
T. 16,000 Jan, at 11 a.m.
Jinsen Maru Capt. Tereda. Hakala Maru SHAI and Kobe Capt. Kawashima T, 1,250 NAGASAKI, Kobel Hitachi Maru & Yokohama...... Capt. Sado
Kamo Maru KOBE & Yokohama
Capt. Shimizu
f Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy,
PASSENGER SEASON FOR 1915.
FOR EUROPE.
† via Manila, omitting Shanghai.
26th January,
Speaking of motor abipe, says London Fairplay, the Mississippi is the first vessel of the type built by Harland and Wolff, and the idea af internal combustion engines has been carried so far in hor that it is utilised for all purposes on board, so that the vessel does not require to have an ounce of ocal. Her engines, however, are not the first set made and fitted- by the Barmeister and Wain - Company of Glasgow. This distinction belongs to those of the "converted" vessel Bandon of the East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen. The Bandon has been completed, and her sister the ships, the Pangan and Chumpon, are next in turn, Their engines are all but ready." The three ships were at Glasgow. for a considerable time. It was DO light ask to remove from them all their boilers and steam engines in such a way that these could be utilised for other hulls-specially built on the East Coast to take them-and then to clear out the engine and boiler spaces, re- arrange everything for the new. type of machinery and install in each the two sets of six-cycle, 1600 b.h.p. Diesel motore. The achievement deserves special mention in all future stories of mariae engineering. Why it was SALINA done, cr why the owners did not
9th February.
23rd February. I
First Class to London..........£71.10. Roturn(6 months) £120. First Class to New York.£60.
"
31
San Francisco £45.
15
£98.10.
£68...
Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacifio Return tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacific Mall 8.6. Co. or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
ARJES oto.
Special Rates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Prinsipal Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Passengers may travel by Railway between ports of call in Japaó free of charge.
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SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
Via JAPAN FORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, CRUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.
17,20)-15 knots
9th Jan,
Thande by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES, For Full Particulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
Stabiners,
Displacement.
Leave Hongkong.
Katori Maru Kámo Kashima Mishima Suwa Atsuta Yasaka Miyasaki Kitano Fushima
20,000 tons
15
16,000
**
20,000
th
16,000
Thursday 28th January
11th February 25th February 11th March
1.
25,000
25th March
"
16,000
8th April
25,000
22nd April
16,000
6th May
Kiyo Maru
13
16,000
10
25,000
20th May 3rd June
FOR AMERICA.
Telephone No. 291
Aki
Maru
12,500 tons
Tuesday 26th January
Sado
12,500
12
77
Yokohama Awa Shidzuoka
12,500
9th February 23rd February
1.2,500
9th March
12,500
23rd March
Tamba
12.500
Aki Sado
12,500
12,500
12
6th April
20th April
4th May
THOS. COOK & SON,
Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding- Agents, Bankers, &c.
For further information apply to Telephone No. 292.
T. KUSUMOTO, Manager.
Head Office for the Far East-16, DES VŒUX ROAD, HONG-
KONG. SHANGHAI: 2-3, Fooohow 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 ISSUED and CASHED
Chief Office:-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C."
THE AUSTRALIAN
ORIENTAL LINE
HONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS SAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION).
Steamers.
CHANOSHA mesiõitse
1. Arrive Hongkong
from Australia.
7th Jan.
Sail Hongkong for Australia. 10th Jan.
These steamers are fitted with Refrigerating machinery, eneur- ing a plentiful supply of ios, fresh provisions etc, and have superior accommodation with Electrio Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms. A duly qualified Doctor is carried. Reduced Fares, Cargo booked through for all Australian, New Zealand and Tas- manian porta.
Freight or Passago apply
No, 93.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
For
SHANGHAI..........
Steamers.
Lüchow
To Sail.
......31st Dec. at 4 p.m.
H'HOW, PHOI & H'PHONGKuelchow SHANGHAL...................
Chenan
MANILA, CEBU&ILOILO...Tean
2nd Jan, at 9 a.m. 3rd Jan. at d'light. ....5th Jan. at 4 p.m.
DIRECT SAILINGS TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. "88. LINTAN" and "8.S, SANUI"
O. WURIU, Acting Agent.
KING'S BUILDINGS.
build new hulls for new motors, and sell the thrée older vessels, is another story. It seemed a carious proceeding, but doubtless it was the most profitable, For we cannot teach the East Asiatic Company of Copenhagen much. about the economics of the" internal combustion engine.
Cargo in Allen Vessels. London, Nov. 13.-It will be..
THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN remembered that at an important
STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
VIA MANILA.
MAIL SCHEDULE
(SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION.)
Steamer.
Aldenham................
Arrive Hongkong from Australia.
2nd Jan..
Leave Hongkong for Australia.
29th Jan.
The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en- suring a plentiful supply of Ice, Fresh Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity: All State-Rooms have Electric Fane. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.
For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co.,
Agents.
meeting held recently of the East India Eection of the London Chamber of Commerce a cDE- mittee was appointed to consider... the question of British cargoes in alien bottoms, especially the Barenfels and the Gutenfels at Alexandria.. An announcement has just been issued concerning the progress of negotiations as follows: The Committee ap pointed at a meeting of ship- pers and owners of cargo on the above mentioned vessele have continued to urge the Admiralty and other Gaverament Depart mente to allow these vessels to be sent on to their destination in India with their cargoes intact. The Chairman of the Committee has recently ascertained that, in' all probability, a joint committee representative of various Depart ments of State will shortly be appointed, to deal with applion- tions such as that made on behalf of British Owners of cargo on the " Barenfels and the Gateufels. It was also aceitaired that, al
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD. though it was as beyond the
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports,
Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers Elootric Light. Excellent Cuisine.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW RETURN. (Occupying 9 to 10 days.)
MANILA LINE-Twin Sorow Steamers "Chinhua, Taming: and Tean Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; electric
Tean fans fitted; extra staterooms on deck aft on "Taming"" & "
SHANGHAI LINE. The Twin Screw. steamers Antul, *** Chenan
Liangchow. Steamships. and
and the. 8.8. “Kanchow," Luchow." and "Yingchow." having excellent accommodation, Hallan with Electrio Light throughout and Electric Fans in the Halching... State-rooms and Dining Baloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong., and Shanghai, leaving, Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday, taking Haiyang Cargo on through Bills of Lading to, ali Yangtaze and Northern China Ports,
These steamers land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of trans-shipment at Woosung.
For Freight or Passages app
Butterfield & Swire.
Telephone No. 86, 19
Hongkong 30th Deo, 1914,
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.. Agents.
14410
Captain
Leaving, 5th Jan. at 1 p.m. 8th Jan at 1 p.m..
J. W. Evans TUES., W. U. Pass poro. FRI.,
FOR AMOT AND FOOCHOW, A. E. Hodgins... | SAT., 2nd Jan. at 4 p.m. Calling at Swatow for Passengers only.
FOR SWATOW,
3rd Jan. at 10 am. HaimunA. H. Stewart... | SUN.,
Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near
Blake Pier.
For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglas Lapralk & Co...
General Managers.
bounds of possibility that some method might be devised whereby British Owners of cargo might be freed from the necessity of est ablishing their ownership before the Prize Court, yet, in the mean- time, claimants, in respect of cargo are under the necessity of producing documents est ablishing their title to the Prize Court at Alexandris. Equiries were made whether, in ca886 where the documents of title were not available a certified copy of an invoice would enable the claimants to establish ownership before the Court and it was understood that in such cases it, was possible that the Court might be disposed to accept such evid ence as satisfactory, ander. adequate guarantees. A farther circular will be addressed to those interested when any additional, information comes to hand.Singapore Free Press.
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