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OR TRIESTE.

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· OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAL YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI

M.V. "ROMOLO"

S.S. "VIMINALE"

From Hong Kong.

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M.V. "ROMOLO"

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Salls on or about 4th Feb., 1927. Safle on or about 4th March 1927,

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1147

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO

SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

S.S. "UMZUMBI"

Safls from Calcutta End of Dec. Sails from Calcutta 31st Jan, 1927. AS "UMSINGA" Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports. Through Bill of Lading Issued from Hong Kong.

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP.-Via Singapore,

lombo.. Suez and Port Said,

ALTA MARU...

......Friday, 7th January.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & RUENOS AIRES-Vin Saigon, Singapore,

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Colonibe, Jurban & Capetown, MANHA MARU

BOMBAY-Via Singapore and Çalumbo.

Monday, 17th January,

SUMATRA MARU (Calls nt Fe nang) Tuesday, 31st December, ISHIKARI MARE............ ....Friday, 24th December." DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND:

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SUBASA-Yin Singapore and Colombo,

MEXICO MARU....

CALCUTTA Via Singapore and Rangoon

BINGO MARU

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MARU (Calls at Pen ang) Monday 20th December.

Wednesday, 22nd December.

Saturday, 25th. December.

www........... Tuesday. 38th December. VICTORIA, SEATTLE TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Bhanghai and Japan

BANGKOK-Via Saigon.

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KOHSO MARD

Party. ARABIA MARU. (From Shanghai) Monday, 20th December.

?. Tuesday, 28th December.

PARIS MARU

HAIPHON––Vi« HODOW & Pol

MENADO MARU

Friday, 24th Dec., 10 am. NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco and Panama.

HAVANA MARU. (From Ken lang) Monday, 3rd January,

JAPAN MARU

KEELUNG Ya SWATOW & AMOY.

HOZAN MARU

TAIKWA MARU

TAKAO Vin SWA TOW & AMOY.

TAKAO & KEELUNG ***

SOURABAYA MARU",

DAIREN Via CHEPNO & TSINGTAD.

Friday, 24th December.

Sunday, 10th December, 10 am. Wednesday, 22nd Dec, 1 am,

Friday, 24th December.

CHUKWA MARU (Calls at Shanghai) Saturday, 19th December. For further particulars please apply to:-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. Tell Central No. 4058, 4089, 4090.

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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN,

The MS. “AFRIKA "

will be loading for St. Nazaire, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, and other Scandinavian" ports on or about

27th December.

The M.S.MALAYA "

THE CHINA MAIL.

SHIPPING SECTION.

BOMBAY HARBOUR.

ONE OF FINEST IN THE WORLD.

area.

DOCKS AND DEPOTS,

.

SUGAR FREIGHTS,

LOCAL MERCHANTS SUGGEST REDUCTION.

HONG KONG TO NORTH'

Through the medium of the Twenty-four Commercial Guilds, Chinese sugar merchants. in

SHIP ENGINEERS. ⠀⠀ ⠀

WHAT CONSTITUTES THE BEST Hong Kong are suggesting to

TRAINING?

OLD AND NEW SCHOOLS,

as

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1926.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.

SAILINGS 1937..

H'Kong S'hat Kobe

STEAMERS

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA | EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

EMPRESS OF ASIA

Thema Leave LS170 LeATe Arrive Jan.

5 Jan. 8 Jan. 11 Jan. 14 Jan. 23) Jan. 26 Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 13) Feb. 10 Feb. 19 Feb.. 22 Feb. 25 Mar Mar. 9 Mar, 12 Mar. 15 Mar. 18 Mar. 27 Mar. 30 Apr. 2 Apr. 6- Apr. 8. Apr. 17 Apr. 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 26. Apr. 29 May 8 EMPRESS OF CANADA June 1 June 4 June 7 June 10 June 13

May 11 May 14 May 17 May 20 May EMPRESS OF RUSSIA June 22 June 25 June 28, July 1 July 19 EMPRESS OF ASIA July 11 July 14 July 19 July 22 July 31 (B/Asis and E/Russia call Nagasak day after "departure from Shanghai) Connecting sailings St. John to Liverpool.

shipping companies that rates of sugar freights between Hong Kong and Shanghai be reduced.

Although a great deal of Java The harbour of Bombay one of

raw sugar is now shipped direct The best training for an engineer to Shanghai-instead of being the finest in the world--is a deep is a subject of perennial interest, transhipped at Hong Kong as was arm of the sea, between the Island, and the question was raised anew the case a few years ago there in a paper read by Sir Theodore are many dealers in the Colony of Bombay and the mainland, 14

Morison. before the North-East at present who buy local stocks miles long and 70 square miles in Const Institution of Engineers and on behalf of principals in differ- The trade of the port was Shipbuilders. We have still with ent North China ports such carried out by means of lightersue a few survivors of the old school, Shanghai, Hankow. Tientsin. etc. plying to and from vessels lying a who were pt to declare that they Recently some of the shipping this sheltered water, until, with the trained man into their works. In-are reported to have put on two would never admit a scientifically-companies engaged in the trade establishment of railways having deed. In this regard, matters have increases of 25 per cent, on ship their termin at Bombay, it became in some cases swung full circle, as ments of sugar. necessary to provide more sultubla certain engineers refuse to take On hostilities ceasing and prior facilities, and the Government, de pupils who have not already grad- to labour troubles threatening at. uated at some technical school or Hankow and other Yangtse porta, ciced upon the administration and university. Of course, the value of there has been a steady flow of Improvement of the harbour by a such qualifications is markedly brown sugar from Hong Kong Public Truse, which came into exis- greater in some branches of the pro- stocks. Such purchasce are tence in 1873 as the Bombay Portfession than in others. More manu-packed here in standard matting.

bags by local labour. facturers of staple commodities may

On these shipments principally,tong Kong Manila find their needs pretty fully met by the records of their past experi- traders hope to secure a reduction

in freights...

Trust.

the

BIAS BAY.

MONTROSE February 4

MONTNAIRN February 19:

MONTCALM March 12

MONTROSE

MONTCLARE MINNEDOSA

April 2

April 23

May 13

Frequent säilings to Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Southampton

Cherbourg and Antwerp.

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SPECIAL FARES TO EUROPE

£120

re-

$112.

£83

HONG KONG-MANILA, SERVICE,

Leave

Arrive

Leave

Manila

Arriva HongKon

Dec 25

Dec. 27 EMPRESS OF CANADA

Dec. 28

Dec. 80

· CANTON · GENERAL'S PLANS

APPROVED.

AUTHORITIES OPTIMISTIC.

The first work carried out by the newly formed Trust was the ecnence, but those who are driven by struction of the Prince's Dock, necessity or choice into new folds which was completed in 1883. Be scientific knowledge has a very de

of enterprise. commonly find that tween 1883 and 1893, the Victoria finite utilitarian value. Dock and the Merewether dry dock, In this country, it is generally ad- | 525 ft. long. 68% ft. wide. and grmitted that college training should ft deep over blocks, were bulit.be hacked by shop experience. The Following upon these works,

arrangement of terms as certain of || Trustees embarked upon a large re. the Scottish technical schools af- clamation scheme by which an ars fords apecial facilities for this.

. Following the announcement. of nearly 600 acres was made avall Thus, at Glasgow, the winter ses- able, and on this lind now exist sione are spent at the college and of Canton's campaign against pir large depots for cotton, previously by arrangement with leading Arms, ates at Bias Bay, the "Canton dealt with in the heart of the city. students are able to spend the inter-Gazette" states

"The cofion depot is 127 acres in vening summers in the works. area and provides accommodation This sandwich system has, we for 12 million bales in 178 rein-understand, proved very satisfac forced-concrete. warehouses, and tory.. uncovered platform space for a fur-

On the other hand, SirTheodore ther 1 million balas. As many as quoted the opinion of a Glasgow en 21,000 bales have been dealt with ineer, to the effect, that a youth

Two divisions are to be assign- in a day and during one senson, should go first for six months into nearly 3 million bales." of works, then take his degree at coked to the task of rounding up ban- cotton were unloaded at the depot. lege, fellowing up this with another dits, according to the plan, and a A Port Trust railway was

con-three years in the shops. At the small squadron of gunboats will to co-operate with structed, connecting the docks with Armstrong College, the speaker be detailed

The

suppression campaign plans which were drawn up by General Li Tsat-sum have been approved by the body specially appointed to consider this matter by the Committee for Political Affairs, it is learned.

sary.

the two main lines of ruilway sare.said, the aim was to provide a train-the land forces wherever neces- ing Bombay, and is worked by the ing in the principles and theories

Aeroplanes are also to be used, Trustees. These worka were underlying practice, rather than to' faished in 1913, and in the spend much time on "detailed de- two having been specially set meantime, the Alexandra Dock was scriptions of engines and machin-aside for the purpose of bombing constructed and a further reclama-ery. The laboratories are, there pirate strongholds which are in- tion made, known as the Ballard fore, organised with the object of accessible to troops and marines. The authorities in charge are Estate. The entrance to the Alex-teaching the student to think for andra Dock is 760 ft. long and 100 himself. The Honours degree is ptimistic about the results of this determined campaign. They fh wine, with a depth of 41 ft. over given only to those taking a post- the all at high water. Alongsida graduate course, during which in Prophesy that the dens of the sea and opening from the cock. is a addition to more advanced work on pirates will be cleaned up within ery dock 1,000 ft. long, 100 ft. wide engineering subjects, the student three months.

takes up some investigation in the land 36 ft. deep over the" sil

though: desighed and commended laboratory and assists lecturers in more than 20 years ago, the gover-research work. In this connection. ing dimensions of this fine dock and we may perhaps. call attention to The health bulletin of Eastern pier are still well in advance of re- the difficulty of finding subjects for ports for the week ended Dec. quirements. The water area of the research, the cost of which shall 11 reada three docks exceeds 100 acres, the not be prohibitive. Chemists are Plague 5 cases at Mauritius, 4 quayages 23,500 lineal ft, and there far more favourably situated in this at Sourabaya. are sheds and warehouses covering regard, as the only expensive plant Cholera: 2 cases at Singapore, 3,200,000 sq. ft..

they require forms part of the nor-13 at Haiphong, 9 at Tourane, fat mal laboratory equipment.

Saigon, 2 at Bangkok, 62 at Cal-

A

A depot for petrol and kerosene, situated near Trombay, at the head

"

FAR EAST PORTS.

Theodore urged the claims of the

In another part of his address, Sir catta," at Negapatam.

Smal-pox: 1 case at Singapore,

of the harbour, was constructed ordinary shop apprentice, pointing 4 at Bangkok, 56. at Calcutta, 5 at la cost of £600,000, and opened in

out that certain boys were born Bombay, 1 at Rangoon, 2 #t 1922. Imports.which were half a allon gallons in 1918-19, increas-with a special aptitude for en Negapatam.

cd to seven and a half million sa

que in 1925-26. A deep-water chan- nel had to be dredged to the bulk- qil pier, and for this and other im-. provements, and for the mainten- ance of existing channels, the port possesses a dredging fleet consisting of nine large modern dredgers of various types, nine steam hopper barges, and rock-broaking plant.

whe loading for Rotterdam. Hamburg and Scandinavian ports on or about The total area of the land estates

17th January, 1921.

Expected on

or about:-

Further sailings-

Will leave homeward- bound on or about:-

M.9. "JAVA!!

M.S. "DANMARK"

Subject to change without notice,

10th January, 1927 20th January, 1927

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THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

DODWELL & EO, ITD., Agents, Hongkong.

that arst-class

ability was not so common that we gineering.and

examination

In

could afford to let any of it run to waste. They boy who came from an elementary school was, often! general education required for pass- handicapped by the standard of ing the entrance examinations, to At Armstrong College, accordingly, technical colleges, and universities."

special provision has been made for the ordinary apprentices educated is 1,880 acros, of which about 880 in the elementary schools. Appren- acres have been obtained by re-

ticen of two years' standing are ad- clamation. The charge against mitted to the College courses capital for this land is the actual

passing an on cost, and no allowance has been which the language test ia made for very considerable apprestricted to a translation into elation in value over and above the English of a passage from a cost price.

scientific work, whilst their, know- During the war, the accommoda-ledge of English is tested by means tion of the port was utilised to its of an essay and a precis.. More. fullest capacity by the Naval and over, apprentices of two. years' Military Authorities.. More than standing are allowed to take the 4,000 transports and hospital ships first B.Sc. examination as externa! were berthed, 2,850,000 tons of mill-students, and if a candidato can' itary stores were handled, 1,627,000 alno pass, as an external student, troops and personnel were embark the second B.Sc. examination, he ed or disembarked, and, in addition.. can get the Honours degree in two- 248,000 sick and wounded.

yeurs.—“Engineering.”

Ph

At the present moment, the Trus-" tees have under consideration the construction of very large now docks farther up the harbour at Trombay, the total cost of which, when completed, may amount to (nearly £20,000,000. The population" of Bombay at the time it became a British possession (1661) was only 10,000, By 1780 it had increased

to 113,000, and by 1858 to 236,000,, while to-day it a little short 11⁄4 million-Mr. F. Palmer" in gineering."

The U.S.S. "Helena" arrived at Hong Kong-yesterday and the usual- salates were exchanged,,

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9th February,

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