THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WELNE
UNLAT
SHIPPING
THOS. COOK & SON,
Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Head Office for the Far East-16, DES VŒUX 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 ISSUED and
SHIPPING
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.
Projected Sailings from E Hongkong
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
SHIPPING
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Blommor
Begular Fortnightly Service between JAVA CHINA and JAPAN.
From
Kappated on ar about
Tillatjap....JAVA 18th Aug, Tjikinixx...... JAPAN ... 39th Aug. Salling Date manockx JAPAN 4th Sept. ...5th Sept. Titaroemx. JAVA T}liwongx ...JAVA 7th Sept.
Destination.
CASHED
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Cook's FAR EASTERN TRAVELLER'S GAZETTE" con- MARSEILLES taining sailings and fares from the Far East to all parts of the World, will be forwarded free, on application.
AND LONDON,
EC..
§Suwa Maru Capt, Murai
[THURS., 26th T. 20,000 Lang, at noon,"
Stearners.
"Arrive Hongkong
from Australia
Sail Hongkong
for Australia. 25th Aug,
LOG BOOK
Charter Rates for This Year PAS
Grain Ships are a Problemă. Portland, June 30Portland exporters believe that the prices for steamers and sailing ships for grain delivery to the United Kingdom have reached the top Will seer oor host figure. A decided stand has been taken by all exportera against the further advancing of obarter rotes and it is believed the desired result has been obtained. For six weeks past the rate for both ateamers and sailing vessele haa been steady at 85 shillings for
.....JAPAN 24th Aug. ......JAVA 1st Sept. ...JAVA...6th Sept. S'HAI ...12th Sept. JAPAN ...13th Sept:
x Wireless Telegraphy. "The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and immediate delivery up to Uctober have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers. All 1, 85 shillings 6 pence for loading steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through up till November 1, and 89-shill- rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia.”
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
Shidzuoka Maru
THURS, 19th T. 12,500 (Aug., at 4 p.m.
Telephone No. 1574
ƒTUES, 14th
T. 13,500 18ept. at 4 p.m.
Chief OfficeLUDGATE CIROUS, LONDON,
THE AUSTRALIAN
MORIENTAL LINE
HONGKONG TO PHILIPPINES & AUSTRALIAN PORTS
SAILING (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION),
CHANGSHA sanoinitia
21st Aug.
These steamers are fitted with Refrigerating machinery, ensur ing a plontiful supply of ico, fresh provisions etc, and have superior! accommodation with Electric 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 ports..
For Freight or Passage apply to
Telephone No. 93.
Satterfield & Swire.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
APCAR LINE.
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.
EASTWARD..
via Singapore,
•Penang, Colombo, Buex & Port Said
VICTORIA, B.C.,
AndSEATTLE via Keelung, Shang-
hai, Moji, Kobe, Capt, Tozawa
Yokkaichi, and
Yokohama rarament
SYDNEY & MEL-'
'BOURNE,
via-
Manila, Thurs-Tango Maru
day.".
Island, Capt. Boyeda
Townsville and Brishane GULDAK CALCUTTA ViB S'pore, -Penang &"Rangoon BOMBAY via Singa
pore, Malacca and Colombo.topi SHANGHAI Kobel
and Yokohama SHANGHAI, Moji
and Kobe......................
■|NAGASAKI, Kobeļ & Yokohama muut) SHANGHAI, Kobel and Yokohama .....
The S.S. Japan."-tous 6,013, Capt. Seddon, will be despatched for Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobe & Moji on the 25th Aug.
↑ Fitted with wireless telegraphy.
SOME PRINCIPAL FARES,
ני
WESTWARD
900. The 8.8. Sangola," tons 5,182, Capt. Milne, R.N.R will be To London 1st Single Yen 600, To Marseilles let Single Yen 550-
Return 2nd Single 400. despatched for S'pore, Penang, 'goon & Calcutta on the. 19th Aug.
Return »
Return
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"
10
825.
ia
605.
2nd Single
Return
360.
550.
#1
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodations for Passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.
For froight or passage, apply to
Hongkong, Aug, 18, 1815,
Agents.
HONGKONG, GANTON, MACAO & WEST RIVER STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON and MACAO. STEAMBOAT Co., Ltd. and CHINA NAVIGATION Co., Ltd.:
HONGKONG-CANTON LINE.
HONGKONG TO CANTON. | CANTON TO HONGKONG,
WEDNESDAY, 18th AUGUST.
10.00 p.m. Honam.
15.00 pm, Fatshan."
THURSDAY, 19th AUGUST.
8.00 am. Faishan.
10.00 p.m. Kinshan,
Bingio Fare by Night Stenmer.....
8.00 am. Kinshan.
5.00 p.m. Homan.
$6.00
To London, Southampton, Liverpool via New York £60.13.0 Montreal £50. 3,0
To Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle, 1st Single £25.
1st Return £57.10/-
To Sydney, 1st Single £40, To Melbourne 1st Single £41.
1st Return £72.
1st Return £73,16/-
1st Return $135. $ 83, 2nd "
To Yokohama, 1st Rotum $150. To Kobe
2nd
$90,,
Round-the-World, Yen 1,045.
For further information apply to
Telephone No. 292.
T. KUSUMOTO, Manager.
JAYA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. York Building. 06
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA JAPAN AND HONOLULU,
Sailings from, Hongkong-Subject to change without notice,
Leaves Hongkong
24th Aug, at noon
Displacement Steamer,
Tons & Speed Chiyo Maru 22,000-21 knots Tuesday,
22,000-21 knots Tenyo Maru Nippon Maru 22,000-18 knots Shinyo Maru 22,000-21 knots
17
14th Sept., at Loon. 28th Sept., at 10.30 a.m. 12th Oct., at noon.
First Class to London............£71.10. Return (6 months) £120. First Class to New York................£60.
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San Francisco £45...
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13
£96.10. £68.
inge or possible 6 pence more for loading up to December 1. It is at that figure, say experts, that the balance of the season's vessela will likely be chartered. A steamer, believed to be the British steamer Highbury, which recently secured a contract to deliver 7000-ton cargo of government Goal from Newport News to San Diego at $6.50 s ton, was offering last week at 85 shillings for the return voyage to the United Kingdom, with no takers. The grostest factor in the Pacifa trade. this fall will be the Australian trade, say local exporters. Condi tions in Australia are not improv ed and the first grain offering on the local market will, it is said, be gabbled up by buyers of the Antipodes. Their harvest is not till December au 1 January 60 that they must have considerable grain to carry them past the fall. This condition, with the prices which the Australians have been willing to pay in the past few weeks for. their stuff, is causing the exportera more worry in their fight against high charters than any other
Special Rates given to MAVAL & MILITARY, GIVIL SERVANTS, Mission-factor. There seems to be no HOUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal
ARIES oto. Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
obazre.
Famsengers may travel by Railway between ports of call in Japan free of
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
limit to the prices that the Aus
While tralians are willing to pay.
VIL JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, LOS ANGELES, SALINA OBUZ PANAMA, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO, THENCE BY TRANS-excess of $2,000 a day, without. ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AIRES, ETC.
Anyo Maru
18,500-18 knots Friday, 10th Sept, at noon. For Full Particulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
Telephone No. 291-
K. DOI, Asting. Agent.”
KING'S BUILDINGS.
THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN
STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
VIA MANILA.
MAIL SCHEDULE
(SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION.)
Steamer.
Arrive Hongkong from Australia.
200
8.00
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Altenham ertsonaksantast St Albans ................................... Empire
23rd Aug.
13th Sept..
Return Fare by Night (available also for Return by day Steamer)... 10.00 Bingle Fard by Day Steamer...
Return Fare by Day Steamer..................
HONGKONG-MACAOʻLINE.
5.5. Sui Tal. Tons 1651. sis. Taishan. Tons 1651." HONGKONG TO MACAO.
Week days at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. from the Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf. Sundays at 9 a.m. and "1 p.m. from the Company's Wing Lök Street Wharf.
MACAO TO HONGKONG.
Week days at 7.30 a.m, & 2 p.m, Sundays at 7.30 a.m. & 3 p.m.
EXCURSION TO MAÇÃO.
SUNDAY, 22nd AUGUST.
The Company's Steamship TAISHAN
will depart from the COMPANY'S WING LOK STREET WHARF
at 9 a.m. and return from Macao at 3 p.m.
N.B-The Company will also ran a steamer from Macas on Sunday at 7,50 un, and from Hongkong at 1 pm from the Company's Wing Lokkenet Wharf,
REDUCED FARES 2nd CLASS and DECK.
JF
CANTON-MACAO. LINE.
s.s. SUI AN....
Departures from Macao to Canton on Monday Wednesday and Friday at 9 p.m. Departures from Canton to Macao on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 440 p.m. JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD., & THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD. CANTON-WUCHOW LINE,
3.5. Satnam, 588 tons and 9.5. Nanning, 469 tons. One of the boys Steamer leaves Canton for Wuchow every Monday, Wednes. day and Friday, at about 8 am, and the other leaves Wachow for Canton on the same days at 8.30 am. Hound trips take about 5 days." Passengers can return to Hongkong or vice vers by the Company's direct Steamers LINTAN and SARDI, Those vessels have superior Cabin accommodation and are lighted throughout by slotricity. Electrio fan in each Cabin.
day excepted).9 am to 5 pm: Booking Office open daily (Sunday Further particulars may be obtained at the Office of the
HONOKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
HOTEL MANSIONS (First Floor)
Opposite the Blake Piers
For
BAILINGS SUBJECT TO ‘ALTERATION,
Steamers. ......Chenan
„Chinhua
SHANGHAI, WWEI, CF00&TTSIN..Kuëlchow CEBU & ILOILO ...............................? HAIPHONG SHANGHAI..
To Sail. ......19th Aug. at 4 p.m... ...20th Aug. at 4 p.m. 20th Aug. at 4 p.m. 21st Aug. at 9 am, „22nd Aug. at d'light
DIRECT SAILINGS TO WEST RIVER, Twics Weekly.
*8.8. LINTAN" and "8.8. SANUI” ETMANILA LINE-Twin Screw Steamers Chlabus,**** Taming," and "Tean." Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; electric fans fitted; extra staterooms on desk aft on "Taming" & "Toan: SHANGHAI-LINE-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO,
Leave Hongkong for Australia. 28th Aug. at11a.m. 17th Sept. 6th Oct.
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the charter of the Grace foamer Coloss was at priva o torma, it has leaked out since she departed from here that her earning capa city on the round trip will be in considering a back haul,” As. Grace steamers seldom go empty." it is believed that this total will be increased at leset 50 per cent by the back haul cargo. It is said to cost to operate the big steamer about $300 a day, sa that the profit for the round trip, requiring about 90 days, will be $243,000. She has just
completed a round trip from San
Francisco to Australis, to Boston, to San Francisco, which is said to have netted in excess of $150,000. She cost $800,000 to build and will, it is believed, pay for herself this year. The steamer Mackinaw, which sailed from Portland" last week, received $17.50 a ton or a Jump sum of $55,000 for her trip witha back haul yet to be arranged. The steamer Colon is now here tä load at a figure around $20 a ton. The British steamer Derwent River, which Korr, Gifford and Co. had loaded here a few daya ago, was switched from a United Kingdom charter, to a trip to Australia at a price said to be bet
The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, enter than $22.50 a ton. This prica suring a plentiful supply of los, Fresh Provisions, eto, and are has been a standard for the past 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.
Agents.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO.. LD,
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.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW: RETURN.
(Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Captain
178.8. " Anbul. ***Chenan."' "Langchow," Luchow," "Ying- chow, and Slaklang," with excellant, accommodation,, electrio light and fans in Saloon and State-rooms, maintain a regular Steamships. schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hallan ...... Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tuesday Thursday and Halching Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangiaze and Haimun... Northern China Ports. Passengers are landed in Shanghai, avoid- ing the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosunge
For Freight or Passages apply to
J. W Evans ... FRI 38 Thomson... TUES, A. H. Stewart... | FEL,
Leaving. 20th Aug. st.2.00 p.m. 24th Aug. at 8.00 pm. 27th Aug. at 3.00 p.m..
Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co,'s Wharf near
Blake Pier
For Freight and Passage, apply to
BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE:
Telephone No.
Douglas Lapralk & Co.,
General ManRGSYS,
Hongkong 18th August, 1915.
fifteen days on this trade and will likely stand. It is on account of this high price and the high prices prevailing on nitrats both to the Alantic coast of the United States and to Europe that the local exportera are continually worried. For the present at least the advance to the United King. dom has been stopped. A remarkably early season is looked for by most of the Portland era portera also. There are
Ars under: charter now steamers and sailing vessels capable of handling about 8,000,000 bushels during the first four months. Others for this same period are likely to be taken sad it would not be surprising, say these exporters, for at least 8,000,000 bushels of wheat to be moyed out of Portland during the first quarter,
Boy Ruined Through Smoking,
A boy, aged 18, charged; at Willesden with travelling on the L. and NW. Bailway without paying his fare, was asked if he would like to join the Army, and he replied that he had been dia- charged from the Army as he had ruined his health by excesive cigarette smoking.
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