NOTICE.
THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE
"
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES.
LONDON
"AGAPENOR " 23rd May "MACHAON.” 14th June "ANCHISES " 21st June "LAOMEDON" 15th July "MENTOR" 19th July
SERVICE
(Direct)
London, Amsterdam & Hamburg London, Rotterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Antwerp
LIVERPOOL SERVICE
(Direct or via Continental Ports)
"TYDEUS" HECTOR" ***EURYADES"
"OANFA "**
20th May. M'lles, Havre, L'pool & G'gow :
1st June Liverpool & Glasgow 9th Juno Genoa, M'lies, L'pool & G'gow 17th June Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool PACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe and Yokohama)
25th May "TALTHYBIUS" 15th June "TYNDAREUS " 6th July
"TEUCER"
NEW
YORK
Victoria, Seattle & Vancouver
SERVICE
(via Suez or Panama)
"KNIGHT COMPANION" 29th May.
via Panama
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
CONSIGNEES.
MONDAY. MAX 9, 1921,
OIL ON THE WATERS.
ཀ ཎཱ ཎ ཏ
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. Does It Injure The Seafisheries.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO,
LONDON and STRAITS.
· It was announded in the House of Commons recently that the
"BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. Board of Trade had set up a Committee, to consider measures for the prevention of oil pollution in harbours, and that the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries was acting in close co-operation with the Board in regard to the inquiry. Referring to this a correspondent writes in a Home paper:-
The Steamship
"BENVENUE"
Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being Jade at thoir risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the dolivary may be
investi-
Before one concludes that pro- gress, in the form of ships driven detrimental to the seafisheries, by oil fuel. is going to be some reflection-and oil oh the surface of still water, gation is necessary. A film of would have two effecte: (1) to prevent the powerful ultra-violet rays of sunlight from penetrating: into the sea, and (2) to hinder the No Claims will be rdmitted absorption of oxygen by the sea- after the Goods have left the Go-the water itself will absorb the water. But even a few inches of downs, and all Goods remaining ultra-violet light, so that our first- undelivered after the 14th inst. factor cannot matter very much will be subject to rent.
to the microscopic animals and
wharves obtained.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 21st insta or they will not be recognised,
All broken, chafed and dam- aged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
plants that inhabit the upper 50 fathome, at least, of the sca. Then the latter is in continual motion because of drifts, currants, and tidal streams, so that the oxygen that it contains may be absorbed from the atmosphere in areas, that ure remote from that pollut fed by the oil.
Further, oxygen is always
HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE examined on the 14th inst. at being produced by microscopic
"ANCHİSES" "MENTOR"
21st Juno
19th July
for London
for London
For Freight and all Information Apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
From HAMBURG, ANTWERP
via SINGAPORE
The Company's Steamship
"HAVANA MARU"
having arrived from the above. ports, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where deliver, can be obtained as soon as the goods are lauded.
Goods cot cleared by the 13th May, 1921 will be subject to rent,
Damaged packages must be left in the. Godowns for examinu-
AGENTS.
W. S. BAILEY & CO., LTD.,
ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOK UN
KOWLOON.
HARBOUR REPAIRS Call Flag "L".
Sole Agents for "KELVIN” MOTORS.” Motors from 12 B,H.P. to 50 B.H.P. now in stock also spare parts.
Works
Manager...
Secretary
13
Tel. K.21.
K.633. K369. K.604 & K.622.
Harbour Engineers,
Telegrams "SEYBOURNE."
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
10 a.m.
plants in the sea, and carbonic acid is being absorbed by them. No Fire Insurance has been On the other hand, oxygen is effected.
being absorbed by animals, which produce carbonic acid. The Billa of Lading will be counter-ocean, as a whiolo, is "balanced " signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON
& Co. LTD.
Agents. Hongkong, 9th May, 1921.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
THE Steamship
"PERSIA MARU."
as regards the atmospheric gares that it contains, and it would probably serve just as well as a
CHEAP SALE
OF
UP-TO-DATE AND ARTISTIC
LIGHTING FIXTURES.
COME EARLY
SO AS NOT TO BE
DISAPPOINTED.
UNION ENGINEERING
CO., LTD.
13, CHATER ROAD.
life-medium even if it were cut this having ever happened on a HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO
off from the atmosphere. Finally, big scale.. A number of years
its surface layers are very often ago there was a mussel bed near
in a state of violent agitation, in a fashionable Lancashire seaside
STEAMERS.
BOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
the course of which a coating of resort and the shellfish came rOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAM- oll (unless the latter. is very thick) will soon be broken up into what the chemists call an "emulsion.
THE LACK OF EVIDENCE. In fact, a quantity of oil, enor mous beyond probability, would
under strong suspicion as a means of transmitting enterie fever.. It was practically impos sible offectively to prevent the mussels from being gathered as human food, and so the Local Authority tried to destroy them
++
scar.'
· HONGKONG-CANTON LINE. Sailings-To Canton daily at 8 a.m (Sundays excepted) & 10 p.m. From Canton daily at 8 a.m. (Sandaya excepted) & 5 p.m.
he required to cover the surface spraying creosote over the of the sea over a fish spawning shoal of starfishes could easily A comparatively small or rearing ground with a film have killed and eaten all the that would do any harm. One mussels, leaving only the empty oannot easily imagine oil-driven shipe, or tankers, to be so careices shells, in a few months, but the 5
treatment with creosote was quite as to spill the amount necessary unsuccessful. And this was an Of course, local effects might infinitesimal sea-area compared casily be produced and the rewith that which must be involved HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS stricted waters of a narrow chan: in order to produce observable nel, harbour, or dock may be so results, in, say, the productivity badly fouled by oil as to destroy of the plaice-fisheries. life or some forms of life, at least, But even such local effects are difficult to trace and establish.
From SAN FRANCISCO. via
take
& MANILA.
FLAICE AND THE PROBLEM, Dr. Shiply, in drawing atten-
from
SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
HONGKONG-MACAO LINE.
To Macao-Daily at 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. (Sundays at 9 a.m. only.) From Macao-Daily at 8.00 am, and 2 p.m. (Sundays at p.m. only).
kong 9 a.a. and returns from Macao 5 p.m.
Excursion, Whit Sunday 15th May. s.s. SUI AN leaves Hong
kong 9 a.m. and returns from Macao 4 p.m.
Excursion, Whit Monday 16th May, s.s. SUI AN leaves Hong-
Further information may be obtained at the Coy's Office, Hotel Mansions
or from Mesafe, Taos, COOK & SON, Booking Agents, Hongkong.
:
The above named Steamer ar- rived Sunday the 8th May, 1921, Consignees of cargo are hereby Some months ago the Ministry tion recently to the danger of the baby herrings that is quite over-produce big effects. But the notified to prosent their Bills of of Agriculture and Fisheries pollution of the sea hy oil, refers shadowed the subsequent ones. effect of poisoning of the fish, or Lading for comtersignature, and sent out a notice in which to some assertions made by Pro In Lancashiro waters 1895 and the fish-food by oil must be so.
to immediate delivery fromthey drew attention the fessor Meek on the coast of 1910 were very good years for local that one has dificulty in THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. | alongside steamer or the Com-effects of terring public roads on Northumberland. Flaice, says plaice, white 1904-5-6 and 1915-recognising it as a true cause of
The tar oils, the latter, did very badly in 1916-16 were very bad years. Copenhagen.
pany's Godown, where all cargo the trout streams.
Oll the fluctuations that can be impeding immediate discharge and (far more important) the 16-18. The year-class" of 1917, may have been a cause in 1915- observed. At any rate, much will be landed at Cousignees' risk, poisonous substances contained that is tho fish spawned 16, but not in 1904-6. In fact, more evidence is required before. Storage will be assessed on in the crudo liquid, were apt to be in that year, is practically there is a more or less regular one can urge that something cargo remaining undelivered after
Northumberland periodicity with regard to the objectionable, it must be, to ship- Sunday, 15th May, 1921.
into rivers containing fisb. A waters, while those of 1916 are abundance of fish in the sea, and ping routine) must be done to stop.. Committee of Investigation had poorly represented. The fish we have now notions as to the the discharge or leakage of fuel looked into this, matter without days of the steamer's arrival hore, with the above steamer are here- puckuges will be landed into the having come to any very robust Pawned in 1918 are said to be causes of this that are becoming foil into the sea.
conspicuously small" when clearer year by year. In ali conclusions, and so the Ministry compared with their pre-war scafish the number of eggs spawn- asked all anglers and proprietors forerunners Some unknowned is enormous, and the baby fish of trout streams to procuro sam factor must have heen responsible for larve) that batch out from
A dying wish, uttered by B ples of water for analysis and for these results and both these are the most fragile and young British prisoner of war in report mortality among the fish. Professor Moek and Dr. Shipley helpless creatures
imaginable. Germany, was fulfilled recently that this factor is the Just about the time that thay at Wootton, a village in North- So far no unequivocal evidence agree
"PANAMA
tion by tlio Consignees' re- The Steamer presentative and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 a.m. on Wednes Having arrived on Thursday, tay and Saturday. All Claitas 5th May from Copenhagen, Con- must be presented within Ionsignees of cargo in connection
All broken, chafed and damaged after which date they cannot be by notified to present their Bills Company's Godown, where same recognized. No claim will bo of Lading for countersignature. will be examined on Tuesday, admitted after the goods have Cargo is being landed and stored the 17th May, 1921 at 11 am. left the Godowns.
at their risk into the Hazardous and or extra Hazardous Godowns No claims will be recognised No fire insurance whatever will of Holt's Wharf when delivery after the goods have left the be effected.
muy be obtained immediately steamer or Godown, and none aftor landing,
will be entertained if presented Storage will be assessed on later than three weeks after
go remaining undelivered after arrival of steamer. noon on the 12th May,
Consignees are requested to sond in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.
OSAKA-SHUSEN KAISHA,
Y, YASUDA,
Manager.
Hongkong, 7th May, 1921.
All claims must be sent in to us on or before the 15th May.
No fire insurance has boen effected.
MANNERS & BACKHOUSE,
LIMITED.
Agents. Hongkong, 5th May, 1921,
No fire insurance whatever.will
be affected.
Y. TSUTSUMI,
Manager.
Hongkong, 9th May, 1921.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
washed down into streams and an absent
SOLDIER'S DYING WISH FULFILLED,
of injury on a big scale is forth-liberation of oil from sunken hatch out there occurs a great amptonshire. When he succumbe coming, and yet the possibility of ships and the consequent poison- outburst of microscopic vegetable ed to his wounds in a German detrimental contamination is far ing of the minute animals and life in the sea, and this is the food prison camp, Willie Marlow was more likely here than in the sea, plante that are the food of the af the little plaice, herrings, &c. only 20 years of age, and in hie
Now, there is no doubt that | baby pinloe,
The first fortnight or so in the life will be left £5 out of his meagre gross local pollution of the sea Now it is woll-known that all of the fish is a highly critical savings to start a fund for build- by oil must have occurred at kinds of animal and vegetable period during which they must ing a Wesleyan Sunday School at exceptional places and times--no life in the sen are subject to get suitable food. If they hatch Wootton, his native village. This doubt at all; bathers' dresses huge fluctuation. Thus of the out before such food becomes small bequest was the nucleus of may have been spoiled and the herringe that were caught in abundant there, must be great a fund which grew until the young plumage of sea-birds soiled. Norwegian seas during the yeare mortality, so that we have a poor soldier's wish materialised. Part Local injuries to marine animals 1906-10 the majority were born year class" of the fish.
of an Army but was bought, re- have occured as the rosult of in 1904; that was so good a year
Sach a cause operates on a erected near the Wesleyan Chapel, huge scale and is competent to and furnished at a cost of £520,
pollution, but one cannot think of for spawning and growth of the
Making the World Look Topsy Turvy ↑
BY
BLOSSER.
LET ME SWING TOO, FRECKLES
HOLD
TIGHT Now,
YEAH
CONE
ON
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