CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESBAGERIES MARITIMES.
The
Steamishina II”·
Arrived Hongkong on Wednesday,
20th November, 1929.
AID TO FLYING.
THE
A MECHANICAL PILOT DEVICE PERFECTED
London, Nov. 20.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SERIOUS FLOODS.
MUCH DAMAGE IN SOUTH WALES.
THURSDAY,
OLD SHELLBACKS.
DISCUSS PRANKS OF THE
RIVER GOD,
NOVEMBER 21, 1929,
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
NEW YORK'S BIG PUBLIC WORK, PROGRAMME."
New York, Nov. 20 Mr. James Walker the Democrát
From Marseilles Ec, and also bring mechanism known as the "pilova of floods in South Wales yesterday, cences over the pranks which the Mayor of New York, has announc-[ ing targo from LA PALLICE,
DEAUX COGNAC "Gonneville" and "Chaf. M. Mahol
by the
· Consignees of Cargo by
55..
Damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the consignces, and the Company's
London, Nov. 20. There was a serious recurrence following heavy and continuous rain throughout Monday night.
Rain was still falling last night, and the position is likely to become worse. Already serious damage has been caused, and large areas
are underwater.
In conjunction with the sinking of the Yuen Lee, Shanghai shipping cir cles have been discussing reminis- River God has played and is all playing
tokl of foundering vessels that disappear in the mud and defy human agencies to locate them stone ballast at the Garden Hend
at and yarns are spun of the placing of
Woo- which turns up months later sung...
Stories are
One mariner of the old school is
that the city for the next four of public works for the next years, involving the expenditure of £200,000,000, to provide em- ployment for hundreds of thous- unds of men.--Reuters American
Washington, Nov, 20.
German. European, notably
lest President
Service.
A remarkable piece of sorial assister' has been perfected after long research and experiment by technicians of the Royal Air Force, above
It is, in effect, a mechanical pilet, named steamer are hereby
reby informed that their goods with the exception in which a gyroscope has been Opium, Treasure and Valuables adapted to control an aeroplane in are being landed and placed at their fight with greater precision than risk in the dodowns of the Hongkong would be possible by airmen. It Kowloon Wharf and Godo Co., Ltd., does not eliminate the need for a A large portion of the railway Kowloon, whence delive. can be human pilot, but it can be put into near Perth has been awept away. firm in the boller that the hulk of apprehensions for. speeding obtained as the goods are landet...
Goods not cleared within 7 days operation while he is otherwise Another railway service was 8 the Yuen Leo will never be recovered Hoover's plan
Industry will at least not at present, as it is already p
Involve including date of arrival, will be engaged, and will maintain the pended owing to flooding of a
American products aircraft on a set course with tunnel.
settling down and will not be seen dumping subject to rent.
All claims must be sent to the absolute accuracy, detecting and A landslide at Watts Town cut off again for a decade despite the stabrond, have surprised: officials, undersigned before the Friday, the correcting automatically, and In-
the approaches do the collieries at compts of the barbour officials to the who point out that increased ex- contrary, Then should the River udd 20th November, 1029 or they will not stantly, the slightest deviation.
run true to form the ship will again porta are likely to be mainly food- be recognized,
The pilot's assister weighs about Tylors Town, and 1,500 men are
idle in consequence,
as though it had been sinking, stuffs, as Mr. Hoover particularly appear as 100
and the gyroscopic
the had struck bottom and come up again desires to help the American tell of times when stone farmers.-Router's American Ser- Raconteurs mechanism controls pistons linked
atjunks, anchors, steel bulled ships and
and vice. machine, which can be made to
what not, have sunk in the Yangisze to the elevators and rudders of the climb or dive without hampering
and have suffered a complete disap- pearance, only to appear again after the device.. Exhaustive tests have been made in several types of Near Neath, the dam wall of the lapse of several years and then machines, including the largest Duffryn Lake burst, flooding cot hundreds of yards from where they bombers and flying-boats, and gentages, whose eccupants were re-originally settled. eral purposes machines, and it is scued from the bedroom windows: understood that as a preliminary to and at Cyfeillion, in Glamorgan-
general
shire, the occupants of flooded application byen fally equipped with the device. roofing slates were stripped of?.
Its practical uses are obviously
Eighty families near Pontypridd rent, and have been demonstrated ut all kinds of weather, including are cut off, and confined to the fog. On one test, it maintained a upper rooms of their houses; and machine in a dead true course in cottagers at Caerlion, Bassaleg and Kusty conditions for 300 miles, the gerstone ure in a similar plightings when during the work of laying Consignees of Cargo are hereby in-human pilot merely taking over to Landslides and floods necessitated formed that all Goods are being land- ed at their risk inte the hazardous and the machine when his destina- the abandonment of some houses
at Cymavon.
Surveyor
at 10.03 a.m. on Monday, the 26th ayor Messrs. Goddard & Dougins November, 1020.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
L. LESDOS, Agent. Hongkong. 20th November, 1929.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
Frem LEITH, ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship,
"BENRINNES"
and/or extra hazardous Godowne of The Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th November, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 9th December, 1929 or they will not be recognized.
Ali broken, chofed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 28rd November, at 10 am., by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.
No Fire. Insurance has been effected. Bils of Lading will be countersign- ed by,
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD
Agents. Hongkong, 16th November, 1949.
METALS
of all kinds aspecially for ship- kuliding and sagineering work. Compista stock. Baal Terme. Immediate dellvary.
SINGON & CO., ESTABLISHED A,D. 188).
Phone
HING LUNG SI.
........Central 315
more
one
Work has been stopped at nites and tin-works Cymavon, owing to floods and copper
landslides.
Washington, Nov. 20. The Inter-Department Com-
mall: mittee dealing with ocean contracts has worked out a plan of action which will "All Ameri- can shipyards to capacity within six months."
squadron of machines has already houses were only rescued after the of the present Garden Bridge Ppanies making the lowest bids.
ion was reached.
In addition to ensuring accuracy of course, it relieves the pilot of much of the strain involved in tak ing a machine on a long filght, and in many ways reduces the risks of Rying in bad weather. It will in due course be adapted to large civil passenger-carrying machines."
-British Wireless.
AUSTRALIAN POLICY.
GOVERNMENT'S PROGRAMME
IS OUTLINED.
Canberra. Nov. 20. The Governor General in the speech from the Throne on the opening of Parliament forecasted the introduction of a measure to of the working improve the Federal Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Act..
3:15
บ
of
Relief measures were immediately undertaken by the Mayor Swansen-British Wireless,
DISTILLERY CASE.
BAIL FOR SEE FOO"
REDUCED BY $700."
Tricks of the River. Even laymen can remember not
It provides that mall contracts so long ago when before the advent
be awarded to American com. were being driven for a previous structure and the work was going Forty new, large and fast ships the companies on apace, when the whole mass slip are planned by ped from sight into the mud below which have indicated their inten- and despite the use of sounding aptlon of submitting bids, Renter?
American Service, a Others talk of the strange happen- paratus it was never again located.
a solid banking at the far end of the Garden Bridge against the American Consulate where the river bottom dis appears into a yawning maw some 40 a low feet straight down within yards of the shore, bags of rocks and cement dropped there were washed away and were later found below the next turn in the river, attesting to the strong current at this point.
It is oven claimed that the bank under the American and Japanese con sulates is completely undermined and not so very long ago a small, stone house which set almost on Whangpoo Road, disappeared into the river be low though it was supposedly, on solid ground
Not without a truck of plausibility, one river authority claims that, should
a large vessel founder or be beached
On the resumption of the hear- ing of the charges brought against the female partner and the sec foo of the Tin Cheong Distillery, before
on the Pootung promontory with its Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kow-stern sticking out into the river to- loon Magistracy, yesterday, evi- ward Soochow Creek, it would cause derce, was given of the absence such a current to be thrown against of any record in the firm's books the American Consulate,bank, that the relating to certain mash which had whole river side of the structure might been set on for fermentation on October 29.
quite conceivably succumb to the 'falseness"of the bottom under it.
Wisdom, After Event.
He said the Government sug reated the Imperial Government hould suspend assisted passages of migrants in view of the serious unemployment in the Common-
After an interpreter, who visited wealth The Government compelled to "restrict further ad- the distillery with Mr. H. A. Taylor, had given evidence of the mittance of foreign migrants."
discovery of mash which had been The Government would be reset for fermentation without any presented at the five-Power nayas record having been made in the those responsible instead of attempt- conference.
book, his Worship adjourned the Compulsory military training hearing until December 10, would be replaced by à voluntary system-Reuter,
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every meal throughout the voyage.
Every stateroom is on an outside deek, and is equipped with running het and cold fresh water, thermos boules and readirig lamps. Twinbeds of the finest manufacture are standard equipment in every stateroom onthe Presi- dent Liners.
There is a swimming bathaboard every President Liner. It is refilled daily.... And is always available for use.
A College orchestrat, versatile in its musical accomplish- ments plays for luncheon, tes-dancing, dinner and for evening porties.
See Egypt at no ulditional cosi, and without loss of time. Many passengers avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing Egypt by leaving their President Liner at Suez -going by motor to Cairo und rejoining ship at Alexan-
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AND
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STEAMER SOLD...
$3,500 PAID FOR OLD RIVER BOAT.
"The steamship Hei Sang was sold yesterday afternoon to Mr. Choy Kee, of 870 Canton Road, shipbreaker, Kowloon, for $3,500 at Messrs. Lam- mert Bros. Auction Rooms.
Mr. Lammert commenced the bid- ding at $2,500 and the price increased in bids of $100 each. At first bidding until the was desultory, but livened up figure reached $3,500, when it slacken- ed again. At this stage groups of would-be purchasers withdrew for end, hurried consultations. In the
however, Mr. Choy Kee secured the
ing
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follows: steamer registered at Hongkong. Off KASHGAR
gial No. 120992, of 678 tons gross and of 508 net tonnage.
Length: 165 feet." Breadth: 28 feet. Depth: 10 feet.
The ship was built by the Kwong|
Tak Hing Firm at Mongkok in 1906. The vessel was sold as she now lies with all equipment and fittings on
board.
THE ASAMA MARU,
DUE TO ARRIVE IN HONG-
KONG NEXT MONTH; The Asama Maru is due to arrive in Hongkong on December 3 and on the two following days an opportunity will be given of inspecting this luxurious liner.
Mr. Hin-shing La is appearing.
This long shelf coming dut from for the defendants, while another the Pootung side has been the cause Chinese," who was also before his of controversies innumerable. It is at once a great menace to shipping. Worship on a joint charge of con- spiracy, was not legally represent-establishing as it does the current which sweeps past it and joints that ed.
from Soochow Creek, and necessitates larger vessels keeping close to the
Channel. deep channel if they wish to navigate the Bend at
Yet would have proved of";
"great advantage in the Yuen Lee wreck had ing to beach the sinking vessels on the sharply sloping bank, towed her across to the Pootung side in the hour and a half in which they had to decide what course of action to take and beached her where she would have been out of all harm's way and not On Wednesday, Dec. 4, the vessel' Mr. J. D. Lloyd, Superintendent the menace to shipping she new is. will be open for inspection of high of Imports and Exports, intimated Just why she should have been Government officials, members of the that he would accept $500 but his moored to the Garden treas and held Legislative Council, Constils and re Worship granted bail in the sum there until she sank requires some ex
presentatives of business firmes, total-
176 from
and they will 7-8 p.m. of $300, remarking that it did not planation in view of the natural cradle ling
stay to dinner on board. for her farmed by the long outreach look to him that he was likely to
On Thursday, December 5, about convict the see fn of any of the ing bank on the opposite short..
In any event it is generally conced 1,500 people will be invited to inspect charges in connexion with the ed among the old shellbacks that the
the vessel between the hours of 1-5 failure to keep a record of mashhull of the Yuen Lee will not be seen p.m. Hetween 7-8 p.m. representa- ani regarded at the duty of the dynamite her masts, funnel and Chinese business firms, to the number set for fermentation, as his Wor-again and the only course to take is Lives of the Chinese community and accountant to make the necessary superstructure, that the channel may of 170, will make, an inspection and
be partly cleared.
then attend dinner on board.
Mr. Lo applied for the reduction of bail from $1,000 to $300 for the ger foo,
entries.
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LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "MANIFESTO", HONGKONG. Codes Used A1, A.B. C. Fifth Edition, Engineering First and Second Editions. Western Union and Watkins, Benson's Marconi.
Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine & Land Engineers, Boiler Makers,
Iron, Steel and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.
S.S. ""TAIPING".
Passenger and Cargo Vessel Built and Engined at the Kowloon Dock by. The Hongkong and For Australa. Whampoa Dook Co., Ltd., to the order of the Australian Oriental Line, Ltd.
Hongkong Service.
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager
R. M. DYER. B. Sc., M.LN.A. Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.
S. 8.
1.
(UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT.)
RAWALPINDI BELTANA
| ALIPORÉ
Cargo only.
Tops
From Hong kong (about)
V
Destination
9,005 | 23rd Nov.noon. Marseille, L'den Hull
Rotterdam & Antwerp 16,619 7th Dec. 1 Bombay, M'ler & London 14th Deo. M'ise, L'dor, Hull, H'bg,
R'dm & A'werp Straits, Colombo & B'bay
5,273 19th Dec, Calls Case Blanca.
Frequent connections from Port said for Passengers & Cargo to Constantinople Fyrous, Smyrna and other 'Levant Ports by Steamers of the Khedivial Mail S.S. Co,
TALMA TAKLIWA TILAWA
CALAMBA
TAKADA
BRITISH INDIA-APGAR SAILINGS
10,000 25th Nov. p.m.
7,936
S'pore, Penang & Caloutta
13th Dec
10,006;
8.0 8
6,949
30th Dec. 31st Dec. 14th Jan
S'pore, Penang & Calcutta S'pore, Penang & Calcutta
S'pore, Penang & Calcutta
S'pore, Penang & aloutta
B. I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for let and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
*TANDA ST. ALBAND NELLORE
6,956.
1,930 6,853
29th Nov. 3rr Jan, 31st Jan.
Manila, Sandakan, Thurs,
Island, Townsville, B'bane.
Sydney and Mellourne.
Call Port Holland.
Regular Monthly Sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Aust Co., Ltd. steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hoflo,
Australia Cebu, Kulambugan, Taweo, Timor, Darwin, or other ports on route as inducement offers..
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Frequent.connections from Australia with the following: The Union S.9. Co.'s Steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.,
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London via Suez Canal: The P.&O. Franch Service of Steamers to London via the Cape. The New Zealand Shipping Co. Steamers to Southampton and London Via Panama Canal.
TAKLIWA MALWA
KHYBER
TILAWA
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
7,936 | 22 Nov. 6 am. | Amoy, Mojt. Kobe & Osaka 10,980 22 Nov. noon. S bai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko 9,114 24 Nov hoon. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yoko 110,006,
Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Obaka
7th Dec
All dates are approximate and ruljert tu alteration with -ut notice.
WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.
Parcels Measuring not more than 2 ft. x2ft x 1ft. Will be received at the Co's Office up to noon on the day previous to sailing. For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freights, etc., apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.,
Agents
P. & Q. Bldg., Connaught Rd., C..
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Faze Hongkong to London £82.
TO LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG via STRAITS & COLOMBO.
Steamship “GLENIFFER””
Motor Vessel "GLENSHANE"
Motor Vessel GLENGARRY":
23rd Dec.
.5th Feb
5th Mar.
30th Nov.
TO SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & ÝLADIVOSTOCK. Steamship" "RADNORSHIRE" Motor Vessel “GLENOGLE***.. Steamship "GLENSHANE": Motor Vessel "GLENAMOY", Motor Vessel GLENGARRY"
6th-Dec. 23rd Dec, 6th Jan.
17th Jan,
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