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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1928.

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australiai Lines

THE CHINA MAIL,

PULVERISED FUEL

ORDER FOR BRITISH YARD

COLLIER OF SPECIAL DESIGN

It is understood that the order has been placed by the Borwindmoor Steamship Co., through Mesars. Eaplen and Sons, Ltd, Liverpool, with a Scottish "shipbuilding com- pany for the construction of a collier, fitted to burn pulverised fud. This order is of great inter- ent, an the vessel will be the first ship to be constructed to lankl burn pulverised fuel. For work pulverised fuel, has been used sucessfully for some years, capecially in the United States, where some 20 million tons of fuel are being con- sumed per annum in pulverised form for power generating and certain Industrial purposes. Its develop. GULF,ment is indicated by the fact that the heating surface fired by pul-

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN

WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTII AFRICA, 'AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.

(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

Destination

$ £

Топк

From } Hong Kong About

4KINDERPORE

5,334 14th Nov.

Straits, Bombay & Karachi.

*KHYBER

KARMALA

JEYPORE

4 p.m. 9,114 24th Nov. 9,128 1st 5,318 Gel:

Marseilles, London & Hull.

Dec.

Dec.

MALWA KASHMIR NALDERA ·

10,946 1 8th 8,06 15th 16,088 | 22nd

Dee.

*Cargo only.

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, London, Hull, Antwerp,

Rotterdam & Hamburg

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Dec. Marseilles & London.

Dec. Bombay, Marseilles & London."

• Calls Casablanca.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyros and other Levant Poris by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA TAKADA TALAMBA

TALMA

7.930

10,006 28th 6,949 11th 8,018 22nd Dec.

1920 10,000 Ist 12th 7.754 17th Jon:

Nov. Dec.

TAKLIWA SANTINIA

Jan.

Jan.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Singapore, Penang & Cafeutto. Singapore, Penung & Calcutta. Singapore, Pening & Calcutta.

B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for let and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are filted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

TANDA

6,050 30th Nov. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney &

Melbourne.

ST. ALBANS 4,500 28th Dec.

ARAFURA TANDA

Australia.

1029 0,000 1st Feb. 6,956 1st Mar.

Regular monthly sailugs from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin; or other ports en route as inducement

ffers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Snez Canal.

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

Missing Treasurer

Mr. Clinton S. Carnes, the tres surer of the Isaptist Home Mission Board, who was reported missing.

verised fuel in the United States rose from 200,000 sq. ft. in 1918 to more than 2,000,000 sq. ft. in 1925, and it is estimated that it is in creasing in that country by 200 per cent. per annum.

For marine use attention was drawn to the possibilities of pul- varised fuel by the conversion of the United States Shipping Board steamer "Mercer" to this system This vessel, of 9,560 tons d.w, is fitted with geared turbines, Scotch marine boilers, and Howdens forced

draught. The conversion was car- ried out after experiments by the Shipping Board, and the "Mercer" was the first ocean-going vessel to demonstrate, under service con-

it

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination

Steamer

Bailing

16th Nov.-nt 7 a.m. 7 A.M. at Nor, at 25th Nov, at .Sun.,

7 a.m. 28th Nov. at 7 a.m.

KWAISANG ....Wed,

Ttan via Stow & Shal 1. YATSHING ... .Fri. Tiau vis Flow & 8'hal .. KWONGSANG ..Wed Titan la Stow “& S'hal,HOPSANG Ttan via Stow & S'hal Osaka via Amos, Bhanghai,, Moji & Kobe ide Osaka vis Amoy. Moj &

Kohe

Strails & Calenta Etraits & Calcutta

Sandkan

Canton minplain Tientsin

HOSANG ......Wed..

*

21st Nov. at 7 am.

7 a.m.

KUTSANG

2nd Dec. at .Sun., KUMSANG

Fri,

16th Nov, at 9 pm, FOOKSANG Fri, 23rd Nov, at 3 pm. MAUSANG Thurs., 15th Nov. at Noon KWONGSANG Wed, 14th Nov, at 8p.m. EONGSHING Thurs., 22nd Nov, at 5 p.m. .CHIPSHING ... Fri, 50th Nov. at 5 p.m. For Freight and Passage apply to: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.

General Managers.

1

THE ORIENTAL SHIP SUPPLY CO. 16, Connaught Road Central, 1st Floor.

Agents for the CONSIGNMENT CHARTERING, BUYING & SELL- ING of SHIPS. Will furnish BUNKER COALS, STORES, CHANDLERY, FRESH WATER, ICE, LAUNDRY, etc., to shipping in the HARBOUR.

We are also agents for the sale of the following commodities:- DRY SALT HERRING American pack of 1928. Limited quantity in barrels of CHOICE ATLANTIC COAST SQUID.

DE HYDRATED CALIFORNIA BABY SHRIMP. * SUN-DRIED LOUSIANA MEDIUM and BABY SHRIMP, A small shipment of CALIFORNIA COAST AHALONE, No. 1, 2, and 3 grades. CALIFORNIA CANNED MACKEREL and SARDINES of excellent pack. PUGET SOUND & ALASKA CANNED SALMON. FLOUR, CLUB STRAIGHT. POWDERED MILK in Cases & Barrels, Guaranteed 1st Class.

HONEY, BUNCH BRAND CHOICE and FANCY RAISINS & all kinds of CITRON and FRESH FRUITS in season.. QUALITY GUARANTEED. YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED.

Cable Address: Codes: A.R.C. 5th & 6th.

Tel. C. 3101. "ORSHIPSUCO".

K. 1146. Bentleys and ACME.

Was

announced that Messrs. MOVEMENT OF STEAMERS. Clarke, Chapman and Co., who have carried out extensive experiments with the burning of pulverised fuc, had received an order to equip one of the vessels of the Blue Star Line with a pulverised fuel plant to burn in an ordinary Scotch boiler by the Woodeson short-fame burner.

The CP.S. R.M.S. "Empress of Asia" arrived at Kobe yesterday at 9 a.m. left Kobe same day at 6 p.m., and is due at Yokabama to-day at 7 P.

+

The B. I. s.. "Trewellard" left Since the "Mercer" crossed the Singapore for this port on Nov. Atlantic burning pulverised fuel in- 5 at p.m., and was due here to- terest in the marine possibilities of day at about noon. this system has been increased; a hundredfold, and the announcement

The 8.8. "Calulu (D. & Co.) sail- that a vessel is to be built ined from Rabaul on Oct. 27, and is England, especially designed for expected here to-day. burning fuel in this form, will fur- The B. I s.s. "Takada" left ther quicken the interest that has Singapore for this port on. Nov been shown in the possibilities of 12 at pan., and is due here on Nov. the development for marine use of 18 at a.m. pulverised fuel.

Among the advantages claimed

The M.V. "Graystoke Castle" (D.

for pulverised fuel are a reduction & Co.) salled from New York on in the overall cost of steam, greater Oct. 14, and is expected in Manila output from a boiler unit of Hmited on Nov. 20.

size, or from maximum size of The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of ditions, that, pulverised coal may be unit that can be constructed, greater Canada" is due here on Nov. 21 in burned in a Scotch boiler. Details | reliability, greater flexibility, and the morning, and will berth at Pier

in these ability to use a wider range of fuels. No. 5, Kowloon Wharf.

She will have been published columns of the performance of the For marine work firing by, pulver- sail for Manila at 5 p.m., the same "Mercer," and since her firat voyage ised fuel may be said to be still in day. from New York to Rotterdam in its infancy, so that the Berwindmoor

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and covered more than 30,000 miles since

London via Panama Canal.

The Dollar Liner "President Lincoln" left Seattle on Nov. 3 and is scheduled to arrive at this port on Nov. 28.

The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of France", Capt. 5: Robinson, C.B.E., R.N.R., left Southampton on Oct. 31, and is due at Bombay on Nov. 16.

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via NewNovember last the Shipping Board Company is lending the way to fur- system Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

has announced that progressive im-ther developments of a provement has been made in her in which hy many is confidently be- stallation. The vessel has now lieved to constitute a challenge to the supremacy of oil, and in so doing the pulverised equipment was in the company is to be congratulated stalled.

on its enterprise. " An American Order The second vessel to be equipped Mr. John Slingsby, aged 85, and She is expected here on Nov. 25 to burn pulverised coal was the Mr. Charles Sligsby, aged 88, and will leave here for Victoria "Lingan," a vessel owned by the father and son, who died, one at and Vancouver, B.C., vin Shanghai, Lingan Steamship Co., of Montreal. Groby, Leicester; and the other in Kobe and Yokohama at Noon on These conversions were followed by, London, within ten minutes of each Nov. 28.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

23rd

Nev. S'hai, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama. Nov. S'hal, Kobe & Yokohan.a.

*TREWELLARD |

14th

Nov. Moj, Kobe & Osaka.

TAKADA

€,949

19th

Nov, Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

TRELAWNY

21st

NALDERA

16,088

TALAMBA

ST. ALBANS

MANTUA

8,018 4,500 10,940 7th

27th

TRESILLIAN

TALMA

Nov. Amoy, Moli, Kobe, Y'hama & Oraka. 4th Dec. Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama..

Dec. S'hai, Moj, Kobe & Yokohama. 7th Dee. S'hai, Moil, Kobe & Tokohama. 10,000 9th Dec. Amay, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Ozaka.

*Cargo only.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notion, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

Passengers for Rangoon mmst defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft will be received

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.

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

Agents.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.

(OCEAN 8.8, CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)

AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 5.S..CO., LTD.)

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

8.8. PYRRHUS” “

8.8. "CITY OF PERTE” 8.8. "CITY OF CHESTER”

Via Suez Canal

„Via Suez Canal

Vin Suez Canal

18th November. #427th November, «27th;Deekmber":

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

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight and particulars apply tor- TERFIELD & SWINE oF THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong, og Kong & Crafön: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.

the announcement that the Berwind- other, were buried at Groby last

White Coal Mining Ca. had placed month.

a contract in the United States for }

the construction of two collierai A light fall of snow-the first of equipped to burn pulverised fuel, the season-fell on October 30 In while in May of this year Peking.

Merry Party For Canadian Homes

Taying good-bye to their native sheres did not seem to depress the spirits Worthers Scottish the way failed from Scotland receply for Canada. *They were included in a large group of household workers recruited in "Glasgow to be placed in homes throughout the Dominione They were all skillen over the prospects of their new (hondes sind in anticipation of many experiences that would befall them infthe country, sarees šhe Atlantic; of which they had heard so.nuela boute ( karbonáte. V JASSAYSAMKORENIA

The photograph was taken as the group were on their way to board the Canation: Trellid liner Montelitor

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President Liner

SAILINGS

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

To San Francisco and Los Angelew The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Forcaightly salfings on Tuesdays Pres. Jefferson Nov. 29th 3 a.m. Pres. Lincoln.......Dec. 4th Pres. Madison' ................Dec. 16th Pres. Jackson

To Seattle and Victoria TheShort, StraightRoute to Amercom

Fortnightly silines on Tuesdays Pres Grant- Pres. Cleveland Pres. Plerce ...Jan. 1st Free Taft

Nov. 27th.

.Dec. 11th

„Des. 25th

.Jan. 8th

£120, 112 Special through rates to Europe via United States, Direct

connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

Europe and New York Direct

ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnighdy sailings on Sunday via Manila, Stralu, Celembe, Suez Canal, Altaandria Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Besson.

Pres. Garfield ..Nov. 18th 8`a.m. Pres Harrison Dec. 2nd 8 a.m. Pres. Monroe.Dec. 16th 8 a.m.

To

Pres. Grant....Nov. 20th 6 p.m. ́Pres. Lincoln ..Nov. 24th 6 p.m. Pres. Cleveland Dec. 4th 6 p.m.

Pres. Wilson...Dec. 30th 8 a.m. Pres. Van Buren Jan, 14h Sat. Pres, Hayes....Jan. 27th 8 a.m.

Manila

Pres. Madison.Dec. 8th 6 p.m. Pres. Pierce ...Dec. 18th 6 p.m. Pres. Jackson..Dec. 22nd & p.m.

For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bask Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address "Dollar"

CANTON BRANCH-No. 4 Sha Kee Street

►

American Mail Line

and

Dollar Steamship Line

AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY

S.S. “CALULU"

will be despatched hence on the

19th November, 1928.

For SYDNEY, MELBOURNE and ADELAIDE via Manila,

Iloilo, Sandakan, Tarakan Balikpapan, Rabaul,

For Freight and Passages apply to:-

Tel. No. Contral 1030.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

*. Agents,

Queen's Building,

SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks

Highest tests and uniform qualities. For Economy, Quality, Beauty, Durability and Satisfaction unsurpassed.

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO,

CHING IV NAM

Manager.

Factory-Canton. Hong-Kong Office,

148, Queen's Road, West, 1st Floor. Telephone No. C. 8882.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS, All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate. any craft of 200 feet long.

Tawn Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Koog, Tel Central No. 459. Tel Kowloon No. 3. Shipyard: Bham-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

́Estimator `furnished on application. Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.",

Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition;

1 Western Union and Watkins.. DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS. BOILER

MAKERS, IRON, STEEL AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, ELECTRICIANS.

Single Screw Steel Passenger and Cargo Motor Vessel, P. ABOITIZ,” 184207 BP. x 27′ 0′′ Md I 11" 2, Md., Bulit to the order of Messun Aboitiz Inc., Cebu, for Philippine Inter Island Service.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Hasager:

M. DYERS, MINA, Kowloon Dock,

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