NYKLINE
THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES.
£120, £112, £110, £102 £83, via San Francisco.
G$440, G420, via Japan and Seattle.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan. Ports & Honolulu,
SHINYO MARU
*SIBERIA MARU
TAIYO MARU
Tuesday, 20th September. Tuesday,
4th October. Tuesday, 18th October.
• Calls Los Angeles, omitting Honolulu,
LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Ports.
KATORI MARU
ATSUTA MARU
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday,
24th September. 8th October.
Saturday, Saturday, 22nd October.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Poris.
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
Wednesday, 21st September. Wednesday, 10th October.
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,
+ HAKODATE MARU
Tuesday, 27th September.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama.
ANYO MARU
Thursday,
29th September. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Poris,
Wednesday, 21st September. HAKATA MARU
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.
+ MAYEBASHI MARU
Thursday, 22nd September. LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Ports,
Friday, † LIMA MARU
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.
AKITA MARU
21st October.
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
AKI MARU
Monday, 19th September.
Friday, 16th September.
RANGOON MARU
HAKONE MARU
Saturday, Monday,
+ PENANG MARU (Moji' direct).... Tucadny, †TOTTORI MARU
17th Sept. 10th September. 20th September. Thursday, 29th September.
+ Cargo only.
SHANGHAI, HOBE & YOKOHAMA.
For farther information apply to--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA Tel. Central No. 292 (Private exchange to all departments.)
M.M.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES”
LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo Boats). Monthly Sailings direct to HAMBURG ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK:-
S.S. "CAPT. FAURE"
due to arrive from DUNKIRK. LONDON, HAVRE about the 20th September.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS (Mal! Service)
Steamers.
Sallings from Marsallan.
Arr. at Hong
Kong & Ballinge
for Shanghai
and Japan.
Beings. from Hong Kong for Marselijos.
12th August Sith August
GAL METZINGER
915 September
SPHINX ..
23rd September
15th Sept. 97th Bapt. 11th Oct, 25th Oct
РОНТЦОВ...
7th October
8th Nov.
8th Nov, 22nd Nov 6th Dec.
ATHOS II...
ANGERS
D'ARTAGNAN.
27th Bapt.
11th Oct
25th Oct.
RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES (including Table Wine and Free Doctor's Attendance). A Clans 1st Class 9. Os. Od. B Clanxa teamers
2nd
#
1st Claar .. £85, OK. Od.
#
OLD SAILERS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING
PRIDE OF THE PAST-BUT STILL "AI AT LLOYD'S."
Sirens and hooters have re placed the roll of Drake's drum, and with the development of steam and electricity much romance has passed from the
ocean.
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SECTION.
LOCAL SHIPPING.
TODAY'S ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Колк
THIS MORNING'S LIST.
"Achillca" (7,199) British, from The "Cutty Sark" was one of the racing tea-clippers, fashion- Milke, B. & S.-97 passengers, ed with a sharp "clipper" or 2,736 tons general cargo for Hong "Lat Sang" (2,225) British, from wedge-shaped bow, that cleft the waves instead of merely hitting Singapore, Jardine's-825 pass871- them like the round bows of the gers, 1,207 tons general cargo for
tons Hong Kong, 1,547
general slower ships.
These tea-clippers fairly flow (through),
"Empress of Asia" (8,893) Bri- home from China with their car-
tish, from Manila,-C.P.R-182 goes, the crews straining every
for Hong Kong, 928 tons general nerve to outpace their rivals, for Passengers, 2 tons general cargo "Allpore" (3,241) British, from the ship that brought the first (through). of the new season's crop to Eng- land was worth a fortune to her Bombay, Singapore, Mackinnon The "Cutty Sark," in Mackenzie-120 tons general cargo
(through).. the run from Shanghai in 1870, for Hong Kong, 2,200 tons general broke. all records, after losing her rudder.in a terrific storm.
That fine old sailer, the "Antiope," now a coal hulk on
}
The glorious old shellbacks owner, windjammers, clippers, barques,
"West Cadron" (3,664) American, schopners, and brigantines-are
from Portland, Manfin.-Col. Pacific our ocean being driven from
S.S. Co.-256 tons sugar and hemp highways by the steamers and Over the Seven
for Hong Kong, 2,069 tona sugar motor-ships. Seas the roar of the sailors' the South African coast, is over and hemp (through).
"Pres. Grant" (8,405) Am rican, Built at Port chanties is being drowned by sixty years old. the blare of jazz bands, but the Glasgow, the 1,500-ton barque from Manila,Dollar-489 passon- Hong Kong, 2,006 tons general sail that was England's glory is was called the "Anti-Hope" by gers, 572 tons general cargo for a fabric tough as her national pessimists who thought she through).
"Tjimanoek" (3,510) Dutch, from oak, There are crazy old-timers would not complete one voyage.
passengers, lambering about the seas of the The "Antiope," however, traded Amoy, J.C.J.L-395
between Britain 389 tone general cargo for Hong years world that may outlive some for
She was captured Kong, 2,000 tons general (through). our magnificently-equipped and Russia.
"Gorontalo" (3.738) Dutch, from: during the Russo-Japanese War For insurance, fifteen years is and sold to a British Columbian Panarochan,-J.C.J.L-3,470 tons
sugar (through). reckoned the normal life of a shipowner for the timber trade. Sugar for Hong Kong, 4,850 tons "Helikon" (1,230) Norwegian, ship, but a well-built vessel will Later she was sold to a New
from Bangkok, Hoihow, Thoresen Zealand firm as a coal bulk. last much longer. There are
When the Great War broke & Co.-14 passengers,. 2,235 tone some big sailing ships in com-
"Amur Maru" (4,823) Japanese, mission which were carrying out, the old "Antiope" was rice for Hong Kong. cargo in mid-Victorian days, and "called up," re-rigged and re-
-519 tons general cargo for Hong we have forty-year-old wind- fitted, to render vallant service from Hamburg, Singapore,.-O.S.K. She went Kong, 6,687 tons generai (through). for three years. jammers that still go long voy ashore in Bluff Harbour, New ages with timber, nitrate, salt,
Zealand, and after she had lain and grain.
nearly swash for three months, was patched up and sent as coaler to South Africa.
of liners.
Tea-Clipper Records. One of the oldest British vessels now afloat is the thirty-
two-ton ketch "Ceres," owned by Mr. W. W. Petherick, of Bude. She was built at Salcombe in 1811. The "Three Sisters," built 128 years ago, foundered in 1921, off the Longships.
The "Jane," a forty-ton ketch that is still at work on the Avon, did good service in the Great War, though she was then. 138 years old.
a
"Menado Maru" (1,284) Jap anese, from Haiphong, Holhow, O.S.K.-252 passengers, 1,745 tons rice and general cargo for Hong Kong, 13 tone rice and general (through);
"Taizema" (402) Chinese, from Wan-Wing Hung
Nelson's two-decker flagship, the "Foudroyant," was actually Kwong Chow sold to a German shipbreaker in Co.-80 tons general cargo 1892, and towed to the Baltic to Hong Kong. be broken up, but two patriotic Englishmen brought her back and fitted her up at Blackpool as a Nelson museum.
for
"Poo Sang" (729) Chinese, from, Kwong Chow Wan,400 tons gen- eral cargo.for Hong Kong.
Departures..."
For Takao: Kohoku Maru.' For Miri:-Palembang.. For Canton:---Soon, On. Far Singapore-Amazon Maru. For Haiphong:--Tonkin. For Swatow-Kalgan,
"Devawongae (1,022) Chinese, from Canton,--Chau Yus Teng. Toiling round the British "Raymond Poincare" (1,197) coast, there is a sixty-year-old French. from Swatow, Yek barge, which was once the home Cheong. of a king and one of the swiftest, most:
appointed gorgeously "which until re- vessels The "Bee,"
afloat. The yacht cently carried cargo between "Denton," as she was then Newport, Isle of Wight, and called, was specially built in Southampton, was built in 1801, England for the Khedive of and crossed the Solent 40,000 | Egypt. The potentate even- Maru. times before she was filled with tually tired of the "Denton," For Shanghai:-Alipore. cement and sunk as a break and in 1879 Mr. W. H. Vander-... water in the Medina River. bilt purchased the yacht to From her decks the crew saw the transport a great obelisk from "Victory" put to sea, with Nelson Egypt to New York. in command:
Strange Cargo.
Hozan
Clearances. For Chinwangtao:-Tonjer. For Whampoa:-Miyo Maru.
Shipping Abstract.
Arrivals Departures Port,
7
The old "Cutty Sark," which is
In order to get the huge 196-
British Japanese now a training-ship at Falmouth, ton monument aboard, a large was the fastest ship in the world hole had to be cut in the vessel's Norwegian
bows. The "Denton" carried Chinese It was nearly sixty years ago. thought, not long back, that an her strange cargo safely to New Danish attempt would be made with her York; but before the big stone Dutch to break the sailing record to could be taken out she had to be French Australia:
cut up again. Thus disfigured, American she was sold, and so by a shuffle Panama
... #70. Ga. Od. Steamers -1 2nd .. 431. O. Od jammers from Australia to the become a grimy coaster.
Through Tickets to London and Landing Towns of Europe. Accommodations reserved in the Trains at Marseillas."
(Sailings subject to alteration without notice).
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG BUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP,Via Bitgapira,
Colombo, Sues and Port Bald. ATLAS MARU
I
..Wednesday, 5th October. BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore.
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. HAWAII MARU
BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo,
INDUS MARU
SHUNKO MARU
SUMATRA MARU
Thursday, 29th September
Monday, 19th September, .Tuesday, 4th October, .Wednesday, 10th October,
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA--Via Singapore and Colombo, CHICAGO MARU...
„Wednesday, 28th September. .Friday, 28th October.
CALCUTTA-Via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon,
PANAMA MARU
BINGO MARU
SEATTLE MARU
.Sunday, 25th September. ..Tuesday, 25th October.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports.
LONDON. MARU (from Shanghai)..... Monday, 12th September. HAIPHONG VÀ FOIFOW & PAKHOI
TAIKWA MARU
.Tuesday, 18th Sept., 10 a.m.
MENADO MARU
Tuesday, 27th September, Noon.
29
KAIJO MARU
Sunday, 18th Sept., 2 p.m.
8
JAPAN PORTS
6
.Monday, 12th September.
15
KEELUNG Vía SWATOW & AMOY.
29
21
71
A race of thirteen wind-of fate did a king's sea castle Portuguese: 0
British Isles was actually held
When the old "Tweed" was this year between nine Finnish, demolished, her frames and tim- three German, and one Swedish bers were embodied in the roof vessel. The winner, a Finnish of a church at Port Elizabeth, four-master, made the passage where they still render good Ber- in eighty-eight days, but the re- vice. cord was set in 1851 when the
Built of Greenock; the iron "Marco Polo" accomplished the ship "Tusitala" is still in com Liverpool-Melbourne trip in mission and recently left New twenty days less,
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..28th September.
6th November 20th November.
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1st October 15th November. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE 10th November.
Loading for. Mauritius, Delagos Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay, Fort Filsabath, Mousal, Bay
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York for Honolulu. Most of the! square-riggers at sea to-day are iron-built, and bear no true re- lationship to the wooden clipper S.S. "WEST CAJOOT" Sept. 20. except in traditional rig, for s.s. "WEST ELCAJON" Oct. 3. iron fouls so quickly that they. cannot maintain the speed of the old copper-sheathed wooden vessels,
The sister ships, "Mount Stewart" and "Cromdale," were the last to be built for the Aus- tralian wool trade, and the com- mander of the former, Captain McColm, remained in his vessel for, seventeen years, accompanied most of the time by his wife and sons. The sailmaker was in her for sixteen years and the cook for eleven.
Some of the wonderful sailing ships appear to grow younger with advancing years..
The "Anita," broken up a short time ago at Teneriffe, was built in 1548, and bore the brunt of numberless storms for three and a half centuries,
** The age of the "Betsy Cains,"
wrecked at Tynemouth, can only | be conjectured, but it was on this ship, in 1688, that William, Prince of Orange, came over to England. The "Princess Mary," as she was then called, was used for years by Queen Anne' as 8 royal yacht.
*WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following warships are in
South Wall Basin Serapis and Seraph; East Wall Basin, Taran tula, Onslaught and LIf Weat Wall Dock, Durban; In Dock, Sirdar and Robin; Talkoo, Dock, Petere}] and Tern; Kowloon Dock, -^Mög• nolla Buoy 6 Vindictive; Buoy 8, Danse, Booy 12, Keppel; Buoy 18, Rüthenia; Buoy, 25, Kharki." eign Men-o'-War, Argus (French) and U.S.S. Pampanga.
FOR MANILA, ILOILO, ZAMBOANGA & CEBU. 8.9.›"CRISFIELD" Sept. 14.
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Wednesday, 14th Sept., Noon,
Tuesday, 27th September.
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