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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1928.

P. & O.-British India Apcar and

THE CHINA MAIL, A

FIRST STEAMSHIP.

PATRICK MILLER'S PIONEER WORK

AN INTERESTING LETTER.

brass-founde Edinburgh. The trial trip of this twin steamboat | took place on October 14, 1788, in the presence of several hundred people.

Pleased with this success, Mr. Miller Atted a twin vessel 60 ft. long with an engine of 18-inch The following letter, written 121 the rate of seven miles an hour cylinders. This vessel steamed at years ago, is of Interest as an eye on the Forth and Clyde Canal, witness account of the maiden voy-witnessed by a vast multitude of age of the world's first passenger spectators. He proposed to build

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', LONDON, STRAITS AND PHILIPPINES.

UE Steamship

"BENGLOE"

Tw

EasterIMATStrana stern In Liverpool, but was in which he intended to make a voy-informed that all Goods are being

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST DIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE

PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

steamer. The writer of the letter a third and larger steamer, on Consigness of Cargo are hereby,

was

New York, Christmas Eve,

New York in 1807. He afterwards age from Leith to London, but landed at their risk into the hazar returned to his native town, and this scheme was not carried out. dous and/or extra hazardous Go- became a partner in the Arm of From this period Mr. Miller ceas downs of The Hongkong and Kow- T. and J. Thornely. The re-ed to build steamboats.

loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd.j cipient of the ter was the grand- Symington, however; preserved

whence, and/or from the wharves, aunt of Mr. T. A. Thornely, and took out a patent for the con- delivery may be obtained. Liverpool solicitor.

atruction of steamboats in 1801. the goods have left the godowns, No claims, will be admitted after

Through the influence of Lord

and all goods remaining undeliver- 1807. Dundas he obtained an order to "There is a new mode of Naviga-build a steamboat for the Forthed after the 10th inst. will be

subject to rent. tion established on the Hudson and Clyde Canal Co., and this ves- All claims against the steamer River which passes New York, sel, named the "Charlotte Dundas," must be presented to the Under- This is the Steam Boat, which, towed a couple of barges on the signed on or before the 24th though not a new invention, has canal with entire success, with inst, or they will not be recognised. not, as far as I have heard, been one vital exception namely the applied successfully except in this agitation of the water by the The River is navigated paddles washed down the banks in instance. by Sloops 118 far. as Albany, an alarming -manner, For many 160 miles above New York-they years the "Charlotte Dundas" (a are, in general, fine vessels, and success from an engineering point N, Fire Insurance has been many of them have large elegant of view, but a

fallure commer-effected. cabins, as tha passage money is cially) lay idle and corroding at

part of the profit of the concern. Canal. These Packets are, of course, The experiment at Carron in liable to all the delays occasioned 1789 had been witnessed by a by head winds and bad weather, young man named Henry Bell, and and though the passage may be he In 1803, accompanied by made in 30 hours, it is occasional- Robert Fulton, who was then on ly a week.

a visit to Scotland, inspected the "Charlotte Dundas." Bell gave to Fulton drawings of the machinery,

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Go- downs, where they will be examined on the 8th inst, at 10 am.. by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY calculated upon as a considerable Lock 16 on the Forth and Clyde signed by

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8. 8.

Tony

From Hong Kong About

|

Destination

*KALYAN

"KASHGAR

MIRZAPORE

MOREA

*KHIVA

***

Bills of Lading will be counter-

GIRB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agents. Hong Kong, 3rd Sept., 1927.

HONG KONG TIDE.

The tide-table given below has been

"The Steam Bont considerably re- sembles the packets on our canals, but I think it is nearly three times which he had obtained partly from obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting | 9,144 15th Sept. Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Bot the length. The Steam Engine is. Miller and partly from Sym-Machine, which includes 40 componente in the middle of the boat, which ington. When. Fulton returned to for the better prediction of tides, from

0.715 12th Oct. 10.963 13th *KIDDERPORE | 6,334 | 24th

0,005 29th Sept.

Mles, 'don, A'werp & Hull,

Straits & Bombay,

Oct.

Marseilles & London.

Oct.

Straits & Bonbay.

Oct.

Marseilles, London & Hull.

• Calle Casablanca.

19.135 | 27th †Cargo only.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smytra and other. Lovant Forts by steamers of the

Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

TILAWA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

"GAMBADA

TAKADA "TALAMBA *TALMA

• Cargo only.

10,000 | 10th Sept. | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

3 p.m.

6,307 2011 Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 6,049

Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.. 8,018 13th Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 10,000 10th Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

New York he carried with him

JOHN KENNEDY,

1888 and 1880,

is forced through the water by two wheels on the outside, with paddle these plans, and it was due to his the result of the analysis of the tidal energy and perseverance that he observations, taken at the Kaulung the same as the wheel of a Msucceeded in building, in 1807 (in tidal observatory under the direction The accommodation for passengers are in the front and the after part spite of ridicule and want of of Dr. Doberek during the years 1887, of the Boat. She has frequently capital), the "Clermont," first pas had upwards of 100 passengers, senger steamer in the world. who pay for their passage and pro- visions £1 2s. 6d. each. She makes the voyage twice a week, and has. been advertised to sail from here every Sunday and Wednesday morning (the passage 30 to 35 hours).

M'GINTY'S STORE,

Lads as are seekin' for sea-kits or

alops

Don't trek fur from Wappin' to rum-

mage the shops,

"The Boat has had some misfor- tunes in the machinery giving way, and the Captains of the But brings-to in comfort anlgh the Sloops have occasionally damag- old Stairs,

ed her by running foul: but the An' goes to M'Ginty's to sample 'is Experiment bids fair to be quite successful, and the certainty of the time of arrival will secure preference of passengers.

"I know a gentleman who took

■ Sloop,

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).my (his?) passage in

ST. ALBANS ARAFURA

TANDA

EST. ALBANS

4,500 28th Sept. f

Nov. 6,950 | 30th

0,000 2nd Nov. 14,500! 28th Dec.

Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island,

Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

The E. & A. 3.5. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Noilo, Cebu,

affers.

Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other porta en route as inducement

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Naw sealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ete.

A

The P. & 0. Royal Mail steumers to London via Suez Canal,

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London vin the Cape,

London via Panama Canal.

The times and heights, are given for Kaulung; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard and Aber- dean, the differences being very small

The times of high and low-watci must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-water and

change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct. .

September 7 to 13, 1928.

DATE HIGH Water Lowee War‹E

Sept.

Ht

Standard Standae. Et

Tim

Timts

7 m 89 8,4 m 9.4% || 24 34 BON 4.5 7:17 42 Bm D 67 m 21 20 49

No Inferior ch

wares,

An' tall "seven-bellers" an” nau-

tical lore: There's little you'll

M'Ginty's store.

tri

miss

Sat

At

· por Low wir

3.

9.4 13. 0.8

8 12.

05-41 #

10 49

4.6

and sailed from Albany at the There's rows o' sou-'weaters, an' same time as the Steam Boat. The piles of sea-boots, Steam Boat landed her passengers An' sev'ral sea-chests, an' a stack o'

cheroots, in New York, took others to Al-

:

bany, and returned again, to New A few tins of plug, an' a mummified York before the arrival of the head Sloop."

Which once ..

was an Aztec-80 Michael 'e said—

(Sd.) THO, THORNELY.

A couple o' cauls in' a case next the writer of this letter does not give Them's aɔne

It is somewhat strange that the door:

o the sights at M'Ginty's sture..

There's a fiddle as 'angs from

nall in a beam,

the name of this strange craft, but it is no more strange than the action of the "Liverpoo! Mercury" which on June 80, 1815, reported,

Mon. 10 m 3-4, 10

1.1

PIA 50 Tues. 11 m. 7 1.72 m

2 15 Wed. 18 m 8 74 m 11A

0 450. 21113 Thurs 13 ms 643.5 m

40

{ 0 3 b s 3 24 a 1.D

After seeking shelter in a box- car in Toronto when he was out

of work and penniless, a man named T. G. Insley, a recent ar- rival from England, was inadver- a covered in an emaciated condition tently locked in. He was dis-

nipeg, after having been without [on the arrival of the train at Win-

He was removed to hospital. food or water for several days.

"the arrival of the first steamboat Though no one can scrape out "Oh, The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and ever seen on our river" (Mersey) | Bella, you dream !"

and omitted to mention her name. An' a clipper or two wi' a bottle

The steamboat to which Mr. outside Thornely refers in his letter was (The Lord only knows 'ow they the "Clermont," built by Robert

tricked 'om inside!)' Fulton, and she was the first com- Assegais, an' a Bible, gew-raws mercial passenger steamship in the galore world, but his remark that "the Are all part an' parcel o' M'Ginty's

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TAKADA

MOREA

TALAMBA

"LAHORE

CHIVA

new invention has not been applied;

6,049

8th Sept. Amoy, S'hai, “Moji, "Kobe & Osaka,

6 p.m. 10,953 14th Sept. S'hai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama,

8,018 17th Sept. Amoy, Moll, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka,successfully except in this in-

KIDDERPORE 5.384 27th Sept. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

TALMA

5.252 28th Sept. S'hal, Moji, Kobo & Yokohama, 0,135 28th Sept. | S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 28th Sept. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. *Cargo only.

All dater are approximate and subject to alteration without motion. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at

Mingapore while awaiting the on-carrying steatzer,

All Cabins are fitted with Electric. Fans free of charge.” Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.

store.

stance," was not correct, unless he Ole Michael 'imself as is free w 'meant “financially" auccessful,'

The man to whom the world is of

a yarn

days roun the Horn in the bar-

que "Lindisfarne;"?

Of some skippers wi hearts as foul

| indebted for the benefits of steam.

navigation,

undoubtedly Was Patrick Miller,

Edinburgh banker, of aristocratic birth and connections..

nni

2

as "Black" Teach,

An' some as would rant o' religion

an' preach.

STEAM BOATS TRIALS IN 1786. He swears as he's sick as a gal o

Mr. Miller was a man of an "ac-l tive and Ingenious rind who, hav-An' ing amassed a large fortune by

Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received banking, used it as a means of

at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to:

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Agents.

P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C. HONG KONG,

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE. (OCEAN 8.5. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.) AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE (ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.8. CO., LTD.) SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

6.8. "PHEMIUS"

8.S. "CITY OF WELLINGTON": Via Saez Canni

Vis Suez Canal

-8.9. “AGAPENOR”. ..

Vin Suez Canal

· 9.8. “CITY OF KHIOS”,

Via Baez Canal,

8.8. PYRRHUS F

Via Suez Canal

*8.9, "CITY OF PERTH-

Via Suez Canal

21st Sept. | 5th Get? 17th Oct

18th Nov.

80th Nov.

Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option.

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight and particulars apply to

MUTTERFIELD & SWIRE oF THE BANK LIN

•Hong Kong & Canfod JARD

enabling him to work out schemes for the benefit of the public. Having purchased an estate in the beautiful valley of the Nith, from which he derived the title of Laird

the store

would sooner be 'calmed in the doldrums once more.

W.

Curran Reedy, in "The Navy."

FAR EAST PORTE.'

Tire health bulletin of Eastern of Dalswinton, he retired to it to ports for the week ended Sept. 1 solve the problem of navigation by is given below, with the number some more certain means than of deaths in parentheses cars and sails. He had, prior to Plagne-Baara 1, Port Sald his retirement, tried in experiment (1), Rangoon (5), Colombe 1. (1), on a triple hulled vessel at Lelth Prom Benh 10). propelled by paddle-wheels in the Cholera-Bombay (2), Calcutta two interspaces driven by a crank (7), Madras (84), Vizagapatam wrought by four-men. His boy's (5) Pondicherry (2), Bangkok 1, tutor, Mr. Taylor, having from ex- Pnom Penh 1 (1), Shanghai 1. * perience realised how violent was Small-pox-Port Sudan 1 (1); the necessary work at the crank, Bombay 4 (8), Calcutta 47(0), said one day to the banker, Mr. Madras 19 (5); Moulmein 4) (1), Miller, I can suggest no power Nezapatam 7. (9), Fondicherry. (8); equal to the steam engine or so Pontianak 1 Pnom Penh 4(8), applicable to your purpose. Shanghai 1923

The result of this suggestion BANDARA O SKIN Was that Mr. Miller decided to Professor Leo: Frobenius of equip a new double-hullad boat Frankfort, the well-known Afri. (which he had recently placed on

plorer Balled «from Ham-

the steaner

the lake

Dalew

named pedition. The South

isine Rhodeslan, and Portug

promi

the ex pedition possible assistance.

All educated classes in Turkey are following with the greatest interest the work of the Commis sion which has been appointed to draw up the new alphabet with Latin characters for the Turkish language.

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