NY.KLINE
THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES.
£120, £112, £110, £102 £83, vin San Francisco.
G$440, G$420, via Japan and Seattle. SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolule,
8th March. Tuesday, 20th March.
* SIBERIA MARU (Calls Los Angeles) Tuesday,
TAIYO MARU
"Calls Keelung.
LONDON vin Singapore, Suce, Marseilles & Parts.
ATSUTA MAKU
Saturday, 10th March.
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday, 24th March.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
Wednesday, 21st March. Wednesday, 25th April.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
+MURORAN HÁIÊU
SADO MARU
Friday, 2nd March. Saturday, 10th March.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vin Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
México & Panama.
ANYO MARU
Thursday, 15th March. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports.
10th April. Tuesday, HAKATA MARU NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.
Saturday, 10th March. †TAKETOYO MARU LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Ports.
+ LYONS MARU
Saturday, 10th March. CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON
Saturday, YAMAGATA MARU
3rd March.
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
AKI MARU
Friday,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
16th March
2nd March.
AWA MARU
SUWA MARU
Saturday, Monday,
3rd March.
5th March.
† HAKODATE MARU (Mojl direct). Friday,
+Cargo only.
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M.M.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES'
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MAIL AND CARGO STEAMERS TO AND FROM
MARSEILLES, DUNKIRK, U.K. HAMBURG & ROTTERDAM..
From Marseilles
PORTHOS
PAUL LECAT ANDRE LEBON
.13th Mar. ..27th Mar.
CHENONCEAUX ...10th. Apr.
For Shanghai and Japan
THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
LOCAL SHIPPING.
TO-DAY'S REPORT AND DEPARTURES.
THIS MORNING'S RETURN.
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SECTION.
CHIEF SURVEYOR.
SIR WESTCOTT ABELL RESIGNS.
WORLD SHIPPING INTERESTS.
C.P.R. MESSAGE:
"STAFF AS SHAREHOLDERS" POLICY.
MR. BEATTY'S APPRECIATION.
Mr. E. W. Beatty, President of the Canadian Pacific Railway, enblad the following message to all officers and employes:-
"In extending good wishes (for 1928), I wish to express to all ranka of the Canadian Pacific Railway my
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928.
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC. TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.
STEAMERS
BAILINGS 1927. :
EMPRESS OF ASIA
Hong Kong S'hai Kobe Y'hama Viver
Leave
Lonve
Leave
Leave
Arrive
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
Mar. 7 Mar, 10
Mar. 13
Mar. 16
Mar. 23
Mar. 28
Mar. 31
Apr. 3
Apr. 6
Apr. 15
Apr. 18
May 9
May 30
June 20
July 11 July 14
Aug. 1 Aug. 4
EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA
EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
(E/Asia and B/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from S'hai}
Apr. 21
Apr. 24
Apr. 27,
May 6
May 12
May 15
May 18
May 27
June 2
Juna 5
June 8
June 17
Jano 23
June 25
June 29
July á
July 17
July 20
July 29
Aug. 7
Aug. 10
Aug. 19
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£120
£112
£83
. Telemachus (1340) British, from It will come as a great surprise appreciation of the response to the Salgon-Wo Fat Sing-34 passen- to the shipping world to learn, as offor recently made enabling them rice for Hong has been announced, that Sir to take shares in the company. gera,, 2,000 tons
Westentt Aboll, K.B.E.. has resign- That response had demonstrated Kong.
General Metzinger (5524) cd the office of Chief Ship Surveyor the faith placed in the Canadian French, from Yokohama, Shanghai to Lloyd's Register of Shipping, and Pacific by all who, work for it, and M.M. Co.-126 passengers, 16 is starting in business for himself accounts for the splendid service stendily maintained in all its tons general cargo for Hong Kong, as a consultant.
Known all over the world as a branches. The growth of the com- 857 tons general (through).
Song Bo (720) French, from ship surveyor, Sir Westcott has had pany is based upon the growth and career, having prosperity of the whole Dominion, Halphong, F. Bayard-M.M. Co.-a distinguished
general occupied several important post-land at this time, ten years after 212 passengers, 400 tons
Educated at the Royal the declaration of the Armistice cargo Hong Kong.
Tjipanas (2776) Dutch, from Naval Engineering College, Key- coneluding the Great War, Canada Sourabaya, Manila J.C.J.L.-1,244 ham, and the Royal Naval College, seams to have fully recovered from became in due the strain of that unparalleled con tons general cargo Hong Kong, Greenwich, he
course a member of the Royal flict. We have reason, therefore, 1,547 tons general (through).
of Naval Constructors. to expect that this growth, will be Australien (4245) Danish, from Corps Copenhagen, Aden-Manners & Co. Afterwards he was successively continuous and stable. My hearty
Leave Arrive -669 tons general cargo for Hong appointed as Professional Secretary wish on behalf of both myself and
to the Director of Naval Construc-the company is that the New Year Hong Kong Manila Kong, 8,033 tons general
tion. Instructor In Naval Archite-(may bring continued happiness and, (through).
Kawachi Maru, (3567) Japanese,ture at the Royal Naval College, prosperity to all officers and em- from Yokohama Moji-N.Y.K. and Professor of Naval Architec-ployes."
tions.
313 passengers, 724 tans general ture in the University of Liver-
for Hong Kong, 2,543 tons general (through).
"
Shai Shing (114) Chinese, from Macao Hoo Hing-30 tons general cargo for Hong Kong.'
Tak Hing (105) Chinese, from Autow-Fook Hol Co.-50 passen- Hong gera, 40 tons general for Kong.
Departures.
For K. C. Wan:-Tai Poo Shek, Sunkong.
For Wei-hai-wal:-Kwelchow. For Macao: Shui Hing.
For Saigon: General Metzinger, Ichang.
·
For Manila: Prea. McKinley. For Singapore: - Moji Maru,
Kidderpore.
For Antow:-Tak Hing. For Amoy: Tjisalak. For Swatow:-Chengtu. For Touraine :---Chungkong. For Shanghai:-Pres. Taft. For Penang-Tung Sang. For Canton:-Raymond Poincare.
Clearances,
1st Mar.
PORTHOS
PAUL LECAT
ANDKE LEBON...27th Mar. CHENONCEAUX
1st Mar. .13th Mar.
..10th Apr.
For Marseilles
.13th Mar.
27th Mar.
.16th Apr. .24th Apr.
For Singapore:-Yuen Sang. For Sandakan:-Hol Sang. For Hoihow:-Tai, Kwa Maru. For Saigon:-Mao Lee, Hing.
From Dunkirk, Antwerp, London
..
D. P. BENOIT (Cargo) 24th Mar.
For Shanghai, Japan and North
China
SPHINX
PORTHOS PAUL LECAT ANDRE LEBON
For Rotterdam, Hamburg, Dunkirk
(Cargo). 16 week Mar.
For Canton:-Escondids.
For Iloll:-Kiu Klang. For Swatcw:-Hai Ning.
Chau
Arrival of Passengers, Arrival of passengers into the Colony, in to-day's Harbour Office report, totalled 570, of which there were:-11 European deck; 139 Asiatic deck; 971 Aaintle cabin; 49 European cabin.
Shipping Abstract.
YANG TSE
D. P. BENOIT (Cargo) 24th Mar.
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8, QUEEN'S BUILDING.
In Arrivals Departures Port.
British Japanese
1
5
23
1
1
Norwegian
0
0
6
Chinese
2
4
Danish
1
0
1
Dutch
1
Б
French
2
3
American
2
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pool.
While at Liverpool he WOB appointed a member of the Board
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Capt. J. Wolfe Murray, D.S.O.. of Trade Committee on Load Line, becoming chairman of the Techni-who has been appointed to succeed cal Committee of that body, which Capt. L. W. Braithwaite, C.M.G., as Vice-Admiral Sir dealt primarily with the relation flag-captain of scantlings to the freeboard Reginald Y. Tyrwhitt, Commander- question.
Jin-Chief; China Station, vacated the Appointed in 1914.
command of aircraft carrier "Ark In 1914 he was appointed Chief Royal" and the Central Reserve of Ship Surveyor to Lloyd's Register Minesweepers at Sheerness, and of Shipping, and in that capacity assumed command of the was responsible for the preparation 10,000-ton cruiser "Kant," which of the revised rules for the con-has been ordered to be commission- struction and classification of steel ed for service on the China Station ships, which have given general as flagship in place of the cruiser satisfaction. The completion of "Hawkins." She will be ready for that formidable task, for which Sir sen in May. Westcott's work on the Load Line Committco eminently fitted him, leaves him now free to relinquish his official duties and to devote him- self to private practice, in which his many friends will wish him all
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He was always a notable figure
CAUSES UNKNOWN.
The Master of the 5.5. Fat "Telmachus". (Messrs. Wo Sing) reports to the Harbour Mas- ter that while coming from Saigon
at meetings of the Institution of là Hong Kong, two Chinese passen- Naval Architects. During the war gers, a
male and a
female died
LOST TORPEDO.
Sir Westcott rendered valuable from causes unknown. services to the country as a mem-) ber of the Merchant Shipbuilding Advisory Committee and of the Admiralty Shipbuilding Council. and also as Technical Adviser to the Controller of Shipping. For In a notification from the Naval these services Sir Westcott was Authorities to the Harbour Master, granted the honour of K.B.E. in a reward of $50 is offered for the 1920.
recovery of a 21" Mark IV star S. R. torpedo which was lost from one of H.M.'s Ships on Saturday. Feb. 25, 1928, in a position ap- proximately 22:17 N., 114.40 E.
ON THE ROCKS.
JAPANESE STEAMER IN NO DANGER.
Provided certain conditions are
Bound for Hong Kong from the North, the s.. "Kinko Maru," of carried out, the Straits Government 12 the Shiozaka Yokichi, is reported has exempted the vessels "Min-
to have struck the rocks in the deroo," Gascoyne" and "Centaur,"
16 vicinity of Turnabout Island, Bouth when carrying Australian cattle
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.25th March. 24th April 25th May.
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7th May.
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BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE
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via 'Suez Canal
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Australian ports and
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According to the local agents, versa from the operation of certain
the M.B.K., no further news had rules under the Merchant Shipping
been received and it was presumed
In the absence of request for assistance, that the vessel was in no danger.
River Groundings.
The 8.s. "Kwong Fook Cheong." which grounded recently, has been: docked at Shamshuipo for survey but it is not thought that serioua damage has been done.
The ss. "San Nam Hoi," which also grounded, was able to refloat yesterday and continue
her voyage to Kongmoon.
On
The 8.6. "Ichang" (China Navigation Company) returned to harbour yesterday morning after grounding near Junk Rock, She will probably be surveyed for dam- age at Taikoo Dock some time to-| day.
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LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore,
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..Friday, 9th March. RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Salgon, Singapore,
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„Saturday, 24th March.
CELEBES MARU (Calls on 'Karachi. Monday, 6th March. INDUS MARU (Cally at Penang)...Tuesday, 20th March. DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, DEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBARU AND
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..Friday, 2nd March.
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