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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.

P. & O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

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

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH 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.)

!

5. S

Tons

LAHORE

DELTA

• JEYPORE

From Hong Kong About

❘ 5,252

1st June

8,007 8th June 5,018 15th Jane

RAJPUTANA *PERIM

14,558 22nd June 7648 29th June

0,00%

fith July 3th July

KASHCAR

*MIRZA PORT

| 6715 Carge only.

Destination

Marseilles, London, Antwerp, Rotter-

dam & Hamburg. Marseilles, London & Hull. Marseilles, London, Antwerp, Rotter-

dam and IIamburg.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Uden, Antwerp & K'dam

& Hamburg.

Maraeilles. London & Hull. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, T'ireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

TALMA SANTHIA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA TALAMBA

TAKADA

TAKLIWA

| 10,900

12th June Singapore, Penang & Calcatta. 7,754 4th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, ¡ 10,006 Bel July Singaporu, Penang & Calcutta. 3,013 26th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, 6,019 27th July Singapore, Penang Calcutta. Ang. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

th

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

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

†TANDA

ST. ALBANS

ARAFURA

TANDA

ST. ALDANS

6,85631st

Alay

4 .. 4.500 5th July

2nd Aug. j^ 6.800

6,955 30th Aug.

| 4,500 401 Oct.

Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney &

Melbourne.

Calls Iloilo & carries Orchestra.

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

The E. & A. S.3. Co., Ltd.. steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu Kelambugan, Tawad, Timor, Darwin, or other parts en route as in- ducement offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

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

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and Longion via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

ST. ALBANS

KASHGAR

SANTHIA

*TILSINGTON

COURT

MIRZAPORE

ALIPORE

KHIVA

TILAWA

TAKADA KHYBER

*KIDDERPORE

TALAMBA ARAFURA MALWA TAKLIWA

TALMA

4,500

1,000 7,754

4th June Moji, Kube, Osaka & Yokohama. 7th June Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

9th June

Amoy, Moj, Kube, Y'lama & Osaka. 10th June

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. June Shanghai. Moji & Kobe. June

Shanghai, Moi & Kobe. June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams.

Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. ANGY Moil, Kobe, Yhama & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kche & Yokohama. Shanghai. Moji & Kobe.

6,715 10th 5,278 19th 9,136 21st

23rd June 0,949 1st July 911d 5th July 5.334

6th

10,000

8,018 6th

July

July ៩.០០០ Oth July

10980 19th July

Amoy. Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

loji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji. Kobe & Yokohama July Amoy, Moji, Kobe Osaku. Amoy, Maji, Kabe Osaka.

7.936 19th

10,000 30th July

* Cargo only.

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

Passengers for Rangoon must defray their

Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer,

OW! Hosal expenses

at

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

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

For further Information, Passage, Freight, Hanibooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

=

Agents.

NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.

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

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.

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

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

S.S. "NELEUS”-

.5.3. "CITY OF MOBILE"

S.5. "MACHAON"

Via Snoz Canal

via Sacz Canal

Via Suez Canal

5th June.

15th June.. 3rd July

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

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight and particulars apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, ITD., Hong Kong Hong Kong & Canion: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Cuntos.

SPEED BOATS

THE CHINA MAIL,

OUTBOARD SUCCESS OF BRITISH ENGINES

CHEAP SPORT

The possibiles of cheap high speed British-made outboard motor bonts, which are becoming increas- ingly popular at watering places, were demonstrated at Cowes Fecent- ly. Important: tests were made of the new and smallest class of boat of this type fitted with Danelt out- board motors with Mr. Kaye Don the famous racing motorist, as pilot. Record Attempt

An attempt was ragde to create a record speed for standsed supercharg- ed A.B.C. and unlimited classes. The course was over a measured mile in the river Medina. In calm weather and smooth water Mesars. Arthur Bray and George Farrar, officials of the Murine Motoring Association, timed the Danelt, which is only ten

feet long. built on. the hydroplane principle

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lots of not

less than 1/2-ton:-- Delivered to Peak District (above Bowen "Road),. $23.00

per

ton.

Delivered ई Bowen Road and Lower Levels, $21.00

per ton. Delivered to Pokfulam Road, $23.00 per ton. Delivered to Kowloon, $19,00

per ton...

Orders should

be sent in writ ing at least 24 hours before the Coal is re- quired.

All orders must be accom. panied by Cash, Cheque, or Compradore Order payable to "The Kailan Mining Ad- ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office: TIENTSIN. DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.

CONSIGNEES.

Three straight runs wire made each way, with the result that a mean speed of 3 min. 3.1-5 302. per sea mie, representing approximately 20% sen miles per hour, was attaine ed. This little speed hoat is one of the first of the production of a series of new Britisheady Donell which will shortly be put on the market.

voyages in 800 dasa. "Kobenhavn" in 110 days. Two Britons were in the Calm Conditiona

race, Garthpool and William Mitchell. itish outboard motor-beat tests Of Garthpool the last British sur British were continund in calm conditions.

vivors of all-wa The chief events were, record at-

may hear more, fer there is tompts by Major R. D. Weatherell in

a movement to preserve her Isit IV. installed with an Evinrude as we have preserved Victory and Cutty Sark. Sweden has only two motor developing ten-horse power.

* VENEZIA-L" wer: big sailing ships left "Beatrice le attacked the

Trieste, sea class national

Venice, onal built at Greenock in 1881 by Steele, Brindisi, Suez, Port Said, Massaaa, Spalato, and international record over a six- mile course, and altained an average

Karachi, Colombo, Penang & Singa speed of 27%. changing his engine for a specially tuned Evinrude.

and C. B. Pedersen.. Both these ships are subsidised by the Swedish Gov- crament. Cargoes, then, matter litla, so long as the young Swede is train- Major Weatherall also attempted ed in the hardest ses school of all- the international non-standard experi- the deep-sea sailer. mental class record His fastest mile Belgium bas the four masted was at a speed of 32% Enots, and he averaged 23% after making ona badharque, L'Avenir," Japan the four

masted barque. "Taisei Maru." Both these are training chips, Another British-built old-timer is the ship "Tovaristek," the training-vessel of the Soviet Government. Tovarisich" was formerly "Lauriston." She was launched at Belfast in 1892,

Jap.

J. D. Schofield, brother of Captain John Schofield who was last overboard from the "Nomad," heard the Federal Commissioner announce that the Gov. ernment had no case against the men and owner, Leland Ross, of the ill-fated vessel which was found drifting help- lessly off Cape May, N.J.

SERVICE MENTORS

THE DEEP.WATER SCHOOLS

"Koben-

December last she cleared the River

fer some trace

૩.

It is happier that our old sailing ships should be the training-grounds for the youth of Seandinavia than that they should die as filthy coal hulks up-river or slowly rot in some far port. But that we have never rescu- ed a single one from the great old flects and sent her to sea with a crew of British boys seems very strange.

MARINE INDUSTRIES

The British Marine Industries, Ltd., has been registered as a public com pany with a nominal capital of £100,000 in 220,000 10 per cent. Participating Preference shares of is. each and 900,000 Deferred shares of The objects are to acquire

Is. inesses carried on by Marine

the

¿

Industries, Ltd.. of Australia, with the assets conneeted therewith,, bene- fit of pending contracts, stock in trade, patents, processes, trade-marks. concessions and other rights and pri vileges relating to the said business vested in-vron behalf of the said ecmpany, to develop and turn to ac count maring industries, the occupa- tion of fishermen, fisheries and the commercialisation of the animal, fish, creature, vegetable and other life, minerals and

products of the sa. The first directors are: G. R. Turner, 10, Clarges-strect, WI. (director of Marine Industries, Ltd.); waterton, 4. Rutland Gate, W. (direc E. A

tor

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamship,

From

pare.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Kowloon, whence and/or from the Wharf & Gedown Company, Ltd., at whurves delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will be forwarded unless notice to the contrary be given before 24th instant.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 30th inst. will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on cr before the 9th June or they will not be recognized.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 30th inst. at 10 a.m. by our surveyors Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- ed,

Bill of Lading will be countersign- ed by

DONWELL & CO., LTD, Agents. Hong Kong, 24th May, 1929.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND PHILIPPINES.

The Steamship,

BEN RINNES " Consignees, of Cargo are hereby in- ed at their risk into the hazardous formed that all Goods are being land. of Sentry Safety Control Syn- and/or extra hazardous Godowns of dicate, Ltd

Safely Serve The Hong Kong and Kowloon Whorf Brakes, Lid). Qualification, £200 and Godown Co, Ltd, whence and/or shares; remuneration, as fixed by the from the wharves delivery may be ob- company. Registered office. 40, tained. Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn, W.C.2.

and

LIFE-SAVING NET

No claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st June, 1929, will be subject to rent.

A broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 81st inst, at 10 am., by Mears. Goddard and Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- Bills of Lading will be countersign- GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 25th May, 1929.

Douglas Kissack writes in the Lon-

The Royal National Lifeboat Institu- don "Morning Post":

tion has awarded its thanks inscribed

All claims against the steamer must There has been no word from theon vellum to Coxswain Eagles, of be presented to the Undersigned on or Plymouth for the rescue of ten of the before the 15th June, 1929, or they great Danish sailing-ship havn" for over she hundred days February 12 The Deventia" had gone crew of the steamer Deyentia" on

on will not be recognised.

Plate for Melbourne, carrying sixty

yashore on the rocks under the Ice of cadets. Since then, silence, and so

1 Bol: Head, 18 miles south-east of Ply the Antarctic islands will be searched outh. When the libefcat, left her sta- arqueen just after 3 o'clock in the morning the giant barque.the. The sailers are few and far between the weather was bitterly cold, with a

Kale

blowing and a heavy sea running. now, and "Kobenhavn" is the cat The journey of 18 miles against the est of them all. She was built at gale took 21⁄2 hours, and the lifeboat ed by Leith in 1921 at a time when ship-arrived to find that the steamer was fill- ping was in a parious state. But she was built for a purpose to being rapidly. Where she lay there was just sufficient shelter for the lifeboat to training-ship for boys anxious to en-

be able to c

to get alongside. ter the service of the Danish Acia-

The Plymouth bost is one of the tie Company. A training-ship she has been ever since, Balling with a buat, which carries

largest type, the Barnett cabin life- a pet amidships. crew composed almost entirely of

This net was of great value in rescuing endets.

the steamer's crew, for ten of them Here is a paradox if you like. Most of the large sailing-ships still in quickly jumped into it, while the re- maining three were rescued by the commission

in British coastguard's were built

life-saving apparatus Now they y the flags of Fin- from the shore. yards. land or Denmark or Sweden, and put up to sea as endet ships, for the Scandinavians insist that those of thoir countrymen who wish to tako charge of ships at sea must have deep-water sailing-ship experience. We have no blue-water raining-ship, |- so young Englishmen sign m, to train at sea, in 2n eretwhite British ship!

Germany's Fleet

HONG KONG TIDE.

The tide table given below has been obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting Machine, which includes 40 compon- ents for the better prediction of tider, Germany has still a sman fleet of

from the result of the analysis of the sailing ships in which the officers of tidal observations, taken at the Kaa- the German merchant service must fung tidal observatory under the receive their early training. For ex-direction of Dr. Doberek during the ample, the Hamburg Laeisz Line has years 1887, 1888 and 1889.

its

"P" at:-"Passat." "Priwall.

"Pamir," "Parma." "Peline," "Padua" Kaulung, but may be used for The times and eights are given for and "Pinna Thene ships, manned

ad the Victoria Nav Yard and Aberdeen, by German boys for the most part. sail from Germany to Chile with coal the differences being very small

The times of high-and. low-water and coke and lol nitrates for the must not be considered to coincide. homeward run. All that with the times of slack-water and of "Pinnas" she is a full-rigged change of current, the two phenomena ship-are four-masted barques. The being quite distinct. merchant service has so strong a hold

.on

the imagination of the average German boy that, failing a berth in

a German ships, he will sign on in

a Swede or a Dane.

May 24 to 30, 1929.

DATE HIGH Wazze Lower Water.

Finland, has, of course, the largest flest of deep-water sailing-shing left, thuse of Captain Gustaf Erikson.

May

Standard Timon

Ht

Five of Captain Erikson's ships are FL 34218. training-ships, the most famous of ali

11 24 4.2

Bt.

Standard

Tiines

SON being "Herzogin Cecille." "Herzogin Sat. 25 m 7.1 m 3 20 31 Cecillie" was built at Geesterande as

5. 20 0.0 a training-ship for the Norddeutscher

5.9 m Lloyd. After the War, she was band-Jun. 26 m 0:24

68 71 ed to the French and bought rom them for

gure by Captain

Mon, 17 m 1 33 2.7 mp 3 688 staull a comparatively

m 10.5 7.0

5 al 1.0 Erikson.

She ig a Tues 28 Noinferic mor Law W. fine ship of over 3,000 tons, with a good speed, loving s gale of wind.

Carzoes Matter Little

depar In 1927, she was one of the seven- sallers that Inced to

England from Australia. She did the

m68 69 7 49. LS. Wed. 1830'nfer.or H. zor Low W.

m 11 39 6.68 45 Thurs & Soinferios 8. nór Low W

stees &

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PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS

WEEKLY TRANS- PACIFIC SERVICE

To San Francisco and

Los Angeles.

The Sunshins Belt via

Honolula e Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays

#..

To Seattle and Victoria

The Short, Straight Roule to America Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays

am.

Pres. Grant Tues. June 4 3 a.m. Pras, Lincoln...Tues., June 1 Pres. Cleveland Tues., June 18 Pres. Madison Tues., June 25 Pres. Pierce ...Tuea, July 2 Pres. Jackson ..Tues., July 9 Pros, Taft Tues., July 16 Pres. McKinley Tues., July 23 £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. Fortnightly sailing on Sunday via Manila, Straits, Colomba, Suez Canal, Alexandra, Naples, Genoa, Marseillas, New York and Boston.

2.1.

3.BL

Pres. Polk...Sun. June 2, 6 Pres. Johnson .Sun. July 14, 8 Pres. Adams..Sen. June 16, 8 Pros. Monroa. Sun, July 28, 8 Pres. Harrison Sun, Juzė 10, 6 Pres. Wilson San. Aug. 11; 8

TO MANILA

Pres. Lincoln June 46 p.m. [Pres. Pleres ...June 22 6 p.m. Pres.-Cleveland June 86 p.m. Pres. Jackson July 26 p.m. Pres. Madison Jane 18 6 p.m. Pres, Taft ....July 60 p.m. For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information apply to Telophone Contral 2477, 2478 and 795.

Cable Address "Dollar." CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA KEE STREET.

American Mail Line

and.

Dollar Steamship Line

AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO.

FOR SYDNEY, MELBOURNE AND ADELAIDE via Manila, Sandakan, Balikpapan, Rabaul and Tulagi

S.S. "CALULU",

S.S. "CHRONOS",

sails on or about 22nd June. sails on or about 15th July.

For freight and passages apply to:

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents,

Queen's Bldg. Tel. C. 1030.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

S.S. CHUEN CHOW

will, until further notice, sail From Hong Kong at 2.30 p.m. Arriving Macao at 6.00 p.m.

DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAYS. Freight and Passage apply: -

CHUEN ON S.B. CO., LTD. 4, Connaught Rd. C.

Tel, C. 6061.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

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

Tel. Kowloon No.

Town Office: 63. Connaught Read Central, Hong Kong, Tal. Central No. 459, Shipyard: Sham-Sui-Pa, Kowton, Hong Kong

Estimates furnished on application.

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPQA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER

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

ELECTRICIANS.

The Com- pany

коят

Besses Six

Granite

Docks and Two Pat-

eat Slip- ways. The dimensions of No. Dock are 700

ft. x

86 ft x 30

.ft.

M.S. SUGBO"

Codes Used:

AI, A.B.C.

Jifth Edi-

tion; E-

gineer in g;

First &

Second Edi-

tion; West-

era

Union

and Wat-· leins.

Single screw steel passenger and cargo motor slip. Dimensions: — 154′ 0′′ B.P. x 28′ 0′′ Mld. x 11′ 6′′ MId.; DW. 470 tons; B.H.P. 360; Speed 10%1⁄2 knots. Built and machinery installed by The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., to the order of La Naviera Filipina Inc., Cebu for Philippine coasting service.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:

R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hong Kong.

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